Quick-look preview images (MISR)
What it measures. Small quick-look preview images, in color, that let you eyeball what a given MISR data scene looks like before downloading the full data.
How it's made. Generated from the MISR instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, which carries nine cameras pointing at different angles; the previews are coarsened color images at about 2.2-kilometer resolution.
How & where you'd use it. Handy for browsing and screening scenes visually. The detailed scientific work relies on the full-resolution MISR data products, not these thumbnails.
What's measured
Coverage & cadence
- Time span1999-12-18 → ongoing
- Measured byTerra (MISR)
- Processing levelLevel 1B
- FormatsJPEG
- StatusACTIVE
What you can do with it
- Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
- Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
- Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description
This is the browse data associated with a particular granule. MISBR_005 is the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Browse data version 5. It consists of Ellipsoid color images obtained by each camera resampled to 2. 2 km resolution. The MISR instrument consists of nine pushbroom cameras which measure radiance in four spectral bands. Global coverage is achieved in nine days. The cameras are arranged with one camera pointing toward the nadir, four forward, and four aftward. It takes seven minutes for all nine cameras to view the same surface location. The view angles relative to the surface reference ellipsoid are 0, 26.1, 45.6, 60.0, and 70.5 degrees. The spectral band shapes are nominally Gaussian, centered at 443, 555, 670, and 865 nm.
Get the data
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc") # free Earthdata Login
results = earthaccess.search_data(
short_name="MISBR",
version="005",
bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9), # your area (W,S,E,N)
temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"), # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results) # stream straight from LARC_CLOUDBrowsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.