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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, December 2, 2002
MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, after more than 15 years of development under GSFC leadership, is presently operating as a key element of both the EOS/Aqua and the EOS/Terra payloads. With more than three years of on-orbit operation, the MODIS system has met or exceeded the vast majority of its specifications and has proven to be stable, sensitive, and robust. The inclusion of 36 spectral bands with 490 detector channels and several complex calibration subsystems in a single sensor is a major accomplishment. This presentation will include a brief history of the MODIS development, an overview of the sensor design, the on-orbit performance of both sensors, a sampling of the science products being generated, and a brief discussion of the follow-on system.
Dr. William Barnes is the Associate Chief of the Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes (970), MODIS Sensor Scientist, TRMM/VIRS Sensor Scientist, member of the MODIS Science Team, lead for the MODIS Characterization Support Team (MCST) and the NASA member on the National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System's Joint Agency Requirements Group (NPOESS/JARG). He has over thirty years experience at the GSFC in the development of Earth-observing imaging radiometers including TIROS/AVHRR, AEM-1/HCMR, NOSS/CZCS-2, OrbView-2/SeaWiFS, TRMM/VIRS, EOS/MODIS and NPP/VIIRS.
Colloquium Committee Sponsor: Dr. Eugene Waluschka
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