Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Centre National D'études Spatiales
April, 2006 to October, 2015

CALIPSO, alias PICASSO-CENA (Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spaceborne Observations / Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols), and alias ESSP-3 (Earth System Science Pathfinder-3), is a satellite science mission, a collaborative NASA/CNES project in the ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program of NASA. Other project partners (algorithm development, etc.) are Hampton University in Hampton, VA, and IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), Jussieu, France.

directory.eoportal.org

http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov/

Instrument	Datasets
Imaging Infrared Radiometer	0
Wide Field Camera	0
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization	0

Also known as :

• missionID 422 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission CALIPSO (ceos lexicon)
• resource CALIPSO (dbpedia lexicon)