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    term: 215
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    lexicon: ceos
    term: TRMM
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#T
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    term: Tropical_Rainfall_Measuring_Mission
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  - context: Platform
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contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency '
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      display_name: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
      identifier: japan-aerospace-exploration-agency
      name: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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      type: organization
      url: http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
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    person_uri: ~
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    id: 3713
    organization:
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      display_name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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      name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
      organization_type_identifier: federal
      type: organization
      url: http://www.nasa.gov
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    person_id: ~
    person_uri: ~
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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: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/t/trmm
display_name: tropical-rainfall-measuring-mission
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identifier: tropical-rainfall-measuring-mission
instruments:
  - description: Broad-band radiometer
    description_attribution: Broad-band radiometer
    identifier: cloud-and-the-earths-radiant-energy-system
    name: Cloud and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
    uri: /instrument/cloud-and-the-earths-radiant-energy-system
  - description: Cloud and precipitation radar
    description_attribution: Cloud and precipitation radar
    identifier: precipitation-radar
    name: Precipitation Radar
    uri: /instrument/precipitation-radar
  - description: Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
    description_attribution: Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
    identifier: trmm-microwave-imager
    name: TRMM Microwave Imager
    uri: /instrument/trmm-microwave-imager
  - description: Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
    description_attribution: Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
    identifier: visible-infra-red-scanner
    name: Visible Infra-red Scanner
    uri: /instrument/visible-infra-red-scanner
  - description: Lightning imager
    description_attribution: Lightning imager
    identifier: lightning-imaging-sensor
    name: Lightning Imaging Sensor
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name: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 1997-11-27T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/tropical-rainfall-measuring-mission
url: 'http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/, http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/TRMM/'