NIMBUS-4

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
April, 1970 to September, 1980

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.

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Instrument	Datasets
Backscatter Ultraviolet instrument	0
Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer instrument	0

Also known as :

• missionID 359 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission NIMBUS-4 (ceos lexicon)
• Source NIMBUS-4 (nsidc lexicon)