---
aliases:
  - context: instrumentID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 653
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentsummary.aspx?instrumentID=653
  - context: Instrument
    lexicon: ceos
    term: LRIR
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentindex.aspx#L
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
    organization_uri: /organization/national-aeronautics-space-administration
    person: {}
    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
    role_type_identifier: contributor
    uri: /contributor/3713
description: Limb-scanning IR spectrometer
description_attribution: ~
display_name: limb-radiance-inversion-radiometer-instrument
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/instrument/limb-radiance-inversion-radiometer-instrument.yaml
identifier: limb-radiance-inversion-radiometer-instrument
name: Limb Radiance Inversion Radiometer instrument
parents: []
platforms:
  - description: 'Nimbus is a NASA meteorological research-and-development satellite program (parallel to the operational TIROS program) which started in 1963 with the prime objective to test new instrument concepts (introduction of sensor technology), a secondary objective was to provide atmospheric data for improved weather forecasts. Eventually, the series grew more into a major Earth sciences program (study of oceans, land surfaces and atmosphere) with the availability of better sensing instrumentation. The ERTS (Earth Resources Technology Satellite, later renamed to Landsat-1) program, developed in the early 1970s, is a direct descendent of the Nimbus program.'
    description_attribution: 'Nimbus is a NASA meteorological research-and-development satellite program (parallel to the operational TIROS program) which started in 1963 with the prime objective to test new instrument concepts (introduction of sensor technology), a secondary objective was to provide atmospheric data for improved weather forecasts. Eventually, the series grew more into a major Earth sciences program (study of oceans, land surfaces and atmosphere) with the availability of better sensing instrumentation. The ERTS (Earth Resources Technology Satellite, later renamed to Landsat-1) program, developed in the early 1970s, is a direct descendent of the Nimbus program.'
    identifier: nimbus-6
    name: NIMBUS-6
    uri: /platform/nimbus-6
references: []
type: instrument
uri: /instrument/limb-radiance-inversion-radiometer-instrument