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Aboard NASA’s many platforms are sophisticated instruments that collect a wide range of data about our planet. Our instruments can track wildfires in real time, detect minute changes in the Earth’s atmosphere, and help agricultural communities optimize their crop cycles. Explore how our data can enhance your Earth science research.


 

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DMS

DMS is an airborne digital camera system that captures images of terrain below low and medium altitude aircraft and creates mosaics of those images.

DPR

The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), aboard the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, measures mid-latitude rainfall and snowfall over land and ocean.
EDOP is an X-band (9.6 GHz) Doppler radar. EDOP measures high-resolution time-height sections of reflectivity and vertical hydrometeor velocity.
The ETM+ is a fixed “whisk-broom”, 8-band, multispectral scanning radiometer that provides high-resolution imaging information of Earth’s surface.

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