Summary of GLI Performance and Primary Targets

CH	Wave- length	Band- width	Lmax (H/L gains)	Lstd	SNR	IFOV	Primary Targets
	nm	nm	W/m^2/sr/µm	W/m^2/sr/µm		m /rad.
1	380	10	683	59	467	1000/ 1.25	DOM (Dissolved Organic Matter) absorption, Land Aerosol
2	400	10	162	70	1286		Baseline of DOM
3	412	10	130	65	1402		Chlorophyll absorption, DOM absorption, Land Aerosol
4	443	10	110/680	54	893		Chlorophyll absorption
5	460	10	124/769	54	880		Carotinoid absorption, Snow impurity
6	490	10	64	43	1212		Plankton (Carotinoid, Phycobiline)
7	520	10	92/569	31	627		Pigment
8	545	10	96/596	28	611		Phycobiline absorption, Vegetation
9	565	10	39	23	1301		Fluorescence Minimum Absorption
10	625	10	39	17	1370		Phycobiline absorption
11	666	10	31	13	1342		Baseline of Fluorescence, Atmospheric Correction
12	680	10	33	12	1293		Natural Fluorescence
13	678	10	522	12	235		Chlorophyll abs., Aerosol Optical Thickness, Vegetation
14	710	10	24	10	1404		Baseline of Fluorescence
15	710	10	369	10	300		Sea Ice Monitoring, Vegetation
16	749	10	17	7	991		Atmospheric Correction
17	763	8	473	6	293		Cloud Geometrical Thickness
18	865	20	13	5	1309		Atmospheric Correction
19	865	10	339	5	386		Cloud and Aerosol Optical Thickness, Snow Grain Size
20	460	70	691	36	241	250/ 0.3125	Vegetation Classification etc.
21	545	50	585	25	141		Vegetation Classification etc.
22	660	60	156	14	255		Vegetation Classification etc.
23	825	110	287	21	218		Vegetation Classification etc.
24	1050	20	227	8	381	1000/ 1.25	Moisture, Snow Cover, Cloud Optical Thickness
25	1135	70	184	8	412		Waver Vapor Amount
26	1240	20	208	5.4	303		Moisture, Snow Grain Size
27	1380	40	153	1.5	192		Water Vapor Amount, Upper Cloud Detection
28	1640	200	76	5	298	250/ 0.3125	Cloud Effective Radius, Cloud Phase, Snow Grain Size
29	2210	220	32	1.3	160		Cloud Effective Radius

CH	Wave- length	Band- width	Dynamic Range	Target Temp.	NEdT (Cold/Hot TV)	IFOV	Primary Targets
	µm	µm	K	K	K	m /rad.
30	3.715	0.33	345	H: 300	0.07/0.07	1000/ 1.25	Cloud Effective Radius
				L: 250	0.71/0.78
31	6.7	0.5	307	285	0.02/0.03		Water Vapor Index
				200	0.27/0.32
32	7.3	0.5	322	300	0.02/0.03		Water Vapor Index
				200	0.24/0.27
33	7.5	0.5	324	300	0.02/0.02		Water Vapor Index
				200	0.21/0.24
34	8.6	0.5	350	300	0.03/0.05		Water Vapor Amount, Temperature
				180	0.47/0.49
35	10.8	1.0	354	300	0.04/0.05		Temperature
				180	0.24/0.30
36	12.0	1.0	358	300	0.04/0.06		Temperature
				180	0.23/0.27

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