
Bandĭas Band 1 ist wichtig für die Wolkenerfassung, Wolkenverfolgung, Szenenidentifizierung und die Überwachung von Landflächen und Aerosolen. The optomechanical MSU-MR instrument provides imagery in six bands in the VIS and IR spectral regions (similar in performance and function to the AVHRR/3 instrument on the POES missions of NOAA) with a spatial resolution of 1 km. MSU-MR (Low-resolution Multispectral Scanner)


LRPT images are however much better as they are transmitted as a digital signal with an image resolution 12 times greater than the aging analog NOAA APT signals. The satellite is currently active with a Low Resolution Picture Transmission (LRPT) signal which broadcasts live weather satellite images, similar to the APT images produced by the NOAA satellites. Its main missions are weather forecasting, climate change monitoring, sea water monitoring/forecasting and space weather analysis/prediction. The Meteor-M N2 is a polar orbiting Russian weather satellite that was launched launched on J15:58:28 UTC with a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
