---
aliases:
  - context: instrumentID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 402
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentsummary.aspx?instrumentID=402
  - context: Instrument
    lexicon: ceos
    term: VIRS
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/instrumentindex.aspx#V
  - context: Sensor
    lexicon: ornl
    term: VIRS
    url: ~
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: Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
description_attribution: ~
display_name: visible-infra-red-scanner
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/instrument/visible-infra-red-scanner.yaml
identifier: visible-infra-red-scanner
name: Visible Infra-red Scanner
parents: []
platforms:
  - description: "TRMM is a joint NASA/JAXA (formerly NASDA) mission within NASA's ESE (Earth Science Enterprise) program with a low-inclination (equatorial) orbit. NASA/GSFC provides the satellite, four passive sensors, and mission operations, NASDA the launch vehicle (H-II rocket) and the precipitation radar instrument. Each agency processes the data from its own instruments. TRMM is the first mission dedicated to observing and understanding tropical and subtropical rainfall, one of the most important, but least understood parameters in global change."
    description_attribution: "TRMM is a joint NASA/JAXA (formerly NASDA) mission within NASA's ESE (Earth Science Enterprise) program with a low-inclination (equatorial) orbit. NASA/GSFC provides the satellite, four passive sensors, and mission operations, NASDA the launch vehicle (H-II rocket) and the precipitation radar instrument. Each agency processes the data from its own instruments. TRMM is the first mission dedicated to observing and understanding tropical and subtropical rainfall, one of the most important, but least understood parameters in global change."
    identifier: tropical-rainfall-measuring-mission
    name: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
    uri: /platform/tropical-rainfall-measuring-mission
references: []
type: instrument
uri: /instrument/visible-infra-red-scanner