---
aliases:
  - context: instrumentID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 868
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentsummary.aspx?instrumentID=868
  - context: Instrument
    lexicon: ceos
    term: Spectrometer (OCO)
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentindex.aspx#S
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: High-resolution nadir-scanning SW spectrometer
description_attribution: ~
display_name: spectrometer-oco
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/instrument/spectrometer-oco.yaml
identifier: spectrometer-oco
name: Spectrometer (OCO)
parents: []
platforms:
  - description: "OCO is a NASA sponsored minisatellite mission selected in July 2002 within the ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program. The OCO science objective is to provide global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO ) needed to describe the geographic distribution and variability of carbon dioxide sources and sinks. CO measurements are essential to resolving significant discrepancies in our understanding of the global carbon budget and, hence, humankind's role in global climate change."
    description_attribution: "OCO is a NASA sponsored minisatellite mission selected in July 2002 within the ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program. The OCO science objective is to provide global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO ) needed to describe the geographic distribution and variability of carbon dioxide sources and sinks. CO measurements are essential to resolving significant discrepancies in our understanding of the global carbon budget and, hence, humankind's role in global climate change."
    identifier: orbiting-carbon-observatory
    name: Orbiting Carbon Observatory
    uri: /platform/orbiting-carbon-observatory
references: []
type: instrument
uri: /instrument/spectrometer-oco