GIFTS
Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer
The GIFTS instrument, funded by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was successfully tested and calibrated as an engineering demonstration unit to ground–validate technologies critical to NOAA’s Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) program.
The GIFTS instrument can measure the distribution, change, and movement of atmospheric moisture, temperature, and certain pollutant gases with the high vertical and temporal resolution typical of low–earth–orbit sensors. Its mission could provide the observations needed to predict where and when severe thunderstorms, and possibly tornados, would occur before they are visible on radar or in satellite cloud imagery.
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