NIMBUS-7

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
October, 1978 to October, 1994

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.

directory.eoportal.org

Instrument	Datasets
Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere	0
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment-II	0
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet 2 instrument	0
Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder instrument	0
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer	3

Also known as :

• missionID 354 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission NIMBUS-7 (ceos lexicon)
• Source NIMBUS-7 (nsidc lexicon)
• Source NIMBUS-7 (ornl lexicon)
• Platform NIMBUS-7 (podaac lexicon)