William L. Barnes

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a reference guide to users wishing to make use of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission data, which covers each of the three primary rainfall instruments: the passive microwave radiometer, the precipitation radar, and the Visible and Infrared Radiometer System on board the spacecraft.

TL;DR: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was launched on 27 November 1997, and data from all the instruments first became available approximately 30 days after the launch as mentioned in this paper, and much progress has been made in the calibration of the sensors, the improvement of the rainfall algorithms, and applications of these results to areas such as data assimilation and model initialization.

TL;DR: The moderate resolution imaging spectrometer (MODIS) is discussed as an Earth-viewing sensor that is planned as a facility instrument for the Earth Observing System (Eos) scheduled to begin functioning in the mid-1990s as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), with 36 bands and 0.5-km geometric instantaneous-fields-of-view (GIFOVs) at nadir, has completed system level testing and has been integrated onto the Earth Observing System (EOS)-AM1 spacecraft, which is slated for launch in 1998.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the use of OBCs for the sensor's radiometric calibration and characterization and discuss on-orbit performance, and provide an assessment of the onorbit degradation of the SD and MODIS optics.