RICMIB2E_002 is the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Level 1B2 Ellipsoid Product subset for the RICO region version 2. It contains the ellipsoid projected TOA Radiance over the RICO region, resampled to WGS84 ellipsoid corrected, and it requires the radiances from all nine cameras of MISR to be projected to a surface defined by the reference WGS84 ellipsoid. On this surface, the camera-to-camera stereo matching will be performed to determine cloud altitude. Topographic distortions are removed. Corrections due to errors in the supplied Navigation and attitude data are obtained during Terrain-projected parameter processing and are applied to these parameters.

The MISR instrument consists of nine push-broom cameras that measure radiance in four spectral bands. Global coverage is achieved in nine days. The cameras are arranged with one camera pointing toward the nadir, four forward, and four aftward. It takes seven minutes for all nine cameras to view the same surface location. The view angles relative to the surface reference ellipsoid are 0, 26.1, 45.6, 60.0, and 70.5 degrees. The spectral band shapes are nominally Gaussian, centered at 443, 555, 670, and 865 nm.