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aliases:
  - context: instrumentID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 773
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentsummary.aspx?instrumentID=773
  - context: Instrument
    lexicon: ceos
    term: GMI
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentindex.aspx#G
  - context: resource
    lexicon: dbpedia
    term: Global_Precipitation_Measurement#GPM_Microwave_Imager_.28GMI.29
    url: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Precipitation_Measurement#GPM_Microwave_Imager_.28GMI.29
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : National Aeronautics and Space Administration '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3713.yaml
    id: 3713
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
      identifier: national-aeronautics-space-administration
      name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
      organization_type_identifier: federal
      type: organization
      url: http://www.nasa.gov
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    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
    role_type_identifier: contributor
    uri: /contributor/3713
description: Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
description_attribution: ~
display_name: gpm-microwave-imager
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/instrument/gpm-microwave-imager.yaml
identifier: gpm-microwave-imager
name: GPM Microwave Imager
parents: []
platforms:
  - description: 'GPM is a cooperative international US/Japanese Earth science mission with the prime agencies of NASA and JAXA, respectively. GPM is a follow-on and expanded mission to (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission), launched Nov. 27, 1997 and still in operation in late 2012 (in Oct. 2005, NASA decided to continue the TRMM mission until at least 2009 and possibly until 2012). TRMM has been demonstrating the benefits of rain measurement from space. The overall objectives of the GPM mission are to observe global precipitation more frequently and more accurately than TRMM. GPM will build on the work of TRMM and extend the science from understanding tropical rainfall to using that understanding to improve climate, weather, and hydrological forecasts on a global basis.'
    description_attribution: 'GPM is a cooperative international US/Japanese Earth science mission with the prime agencies of NASA and JAXA, respectively. GPM is a follow-on and expanded mission to (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission), launched Nov. 27, 1997 and still in operation in late 2012 (in Oct. 2005, NASA decided to continue the TRMM mission until at least 2009 and possibly until 2012). TRMM has been demonstrating the benefits of rain measurement from space. The overall objectives of the GPM mission are to observe global precipitation more frequently and more accurately than TRMM. GPM will build on the work of TRMM and extend the science from understanding tropical rainfall to using that understanding to improve climate, weather, and hydrological forecasts on a global basis.'
    identifier: global-precipitation-measurement-mission-core-spacecraft
    name: Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Core spacecraft
    uri: /platform/global-precipitation-measurement-mission-core-spacecraft
references: []
type: instrument
uri: /instrument/gpm-microwave-imager