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Please explain AVHRR.

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SkorS

It's shorthand for Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. A broadband, the four or five channels (depending on model) scanner, remote sensing in the visible, infrared and thermal infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum close.

23:48, 22 November 2012

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