PARASOL Earth Observing Unmanned Missions

PARASOL (Polarization and Anisotropy of Réflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar) is a French's CNES microsatellite project. Its main purpose is to improve the characterization of the clouds and aerosols microphysical and radiative properties, needed to understand and model the radiative impact of clouds and aerosols.

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• PARASOL-POLDER Distribution Center - Distributes level 1 data on clouds, aerosols, land, and ocean parasol color from the POLarization and Directionality of the Earth\\'s Reflectances parasol (POLDER) instrument on the PARASOL satellite.
• PARASOL - Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with parasol Observations from a Lidar. Offers mission background, data products, news, parasol and publications.

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