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The MAMS is a modified Daedalus Scanner flown aboard the ER-2 aircraft. It is designed to study weather related phenomena including storm system structure, cloud-top temperatures, and upper atmospheric water vapor. The scanner retains the eight silicon- detector channels in the visible/near-infrared region found on the Daedalus Thematic Mapper Simulator, with the addition of four channels in the infrared relating to specific atmospheric features. The spectral bands are as follows:

Spatial Resolution :	50 or 100 meters from 19.8 km (65,000 ft.)
Total Field of View :	85.92 degrees
IFOV :	2.5 or 5.0 mrad (selectable)

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• Channels 9 - 12 are digitized to 10 bits; all others are 8-bit.
• Blackbody sources are carried for IR calibration.
• The system is scheduled to be upgraded to 16-bit resolution in late 1998.
  (See the homepage at http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/irgrp/mams)

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