AVHRR Polar 1 Km Level 1B Data Set

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Entry ID

NSIDC-0022

Summary

Please note that the machine on which these AVHRR data are processed has reached its life expectancy and will no longer be available as of 02 June 2008 until further notice.

NSIDC collects and archives 1.1 km High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) and Local Area Coverage (LAC) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery. Original data are from recorded and rebroadcast LAC images for both polar regions and from several HRPT receiving stations, including McMurdo, Palmer, Casey, Fairbanks, Prince Albert, and Tromso. NSIDC receives these data from a polar subset of the EROS Data Center (EDC) Global Land 1 km AVHRR Data Set and from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, which collects Antarctic HRPT data from the McMurdo and Palmer stations. NSIDC received LAC data for the Southern Hemisphere through 1998 from a University of Colorado Domestic Satellite (DOMSAT) receiver and from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Satellite Active Archive (SAA) after 1998. These sources provide nearly complete coverage of sea ice, land ice, and polar land in the north and south polar regions, at 1.1 km resolution for all five bands of the AVHRR sensor. Data extend from April 1992 through the present for the Southern Hemisphere, and from August 1993 through the present for the Northern Hemisphere.

Archived scenes, browse imagery, and information on location, time of acquisition, image size, and data quality are available via the AVHRR Polar 1 Km Level 1B Data Set Product Web site.

Geographic Coverage

 

Spatial Coordinates:
N: -50°     S: -90°     E: 180°     W: -180°    
N: 90°     S: 50°     E: 180°     W: -180°    

Data Set Citation

Dataset Title: AVHRR Polar 1 Km Level 1B Data Set
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO U.S.A.
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0022.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1992-04-01

Location Keywords

  • Continent Antarctica
  • Continent Europe Northern Europe Iceland
  • Continent North America Canada Hudson Bay
  • Continent North America Greenland
  • Geographic Region Polar
  • Ocean Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay
  • Ocean Arctic Ocean Beaufort Sea
  • Ocean Atlantic Ocean North Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Atlantic Ocean North Atlantic Ocean Greenland Sea
  • Ocean Pacific Ocean North Pacific Ocean Bering Sea
  • Ocean Southern Ocean Amundsen Sea

Science Keywords

  • Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Infrared Imagery
  • Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Reflected Infrared
  • Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Sensor Counts
  • Spectral/Engineering Infrared Wavelengths Thermal Infrared
  • Spectral/Engineering Visible Wavelengths Visible Imagery

Ancillary Keywords

  • Antarctic
  • Arctic
  • DAAC
  • HRPT
  • IDN_NODE GSFC/NSIDC
  • Imagery
  • LAC
  • NSIDC DAAC
  • Polar
  • SI DAAC
  • SNOW ICE

Platform

  • NOAA POES NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites
  • NOAA-10 National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-10
  • NOAA-11 National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11
  • NOAA-12 National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12

Instrument

  • AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Project

  • EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data Information System
  • ESIP Earth Science Information Partners Program

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

ADCC

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0022

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0022

Data Center Personnel

Name: NSIDC DAAC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: 8 mm tape or ftp

Personnel

NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Ted Scambos
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: scambos@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449

Reference

Di, L. and D. Rundquist. 1994. A one-step algorithm for correction and calibration of AVHRR level 1B data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 60(2):165-171.

Hastings, D. and W. Emery. 1992. The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR): a brief reference guide. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 58(8):1183-1188.

ITT. 1982. AVHRR/2 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Technical Description. Prepared by ITT Aerospace/Optical Division. Ft. Wayne, Indiana for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, under NASA Contract No. NAS5-26771.

Kidwell, K. 1991. NOAA polar orbiter data user's guide. NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC/SDSD, Washington, D.C.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 1979. Data extraction and calibration of Tiros-N/NOAA radiometers. Editor, Walter G. Planet. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESS 107 -- Rev. 1. U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Reichenbach, S., D. Koehler, and D. Strelow. 1995. Restoration and reconstruction of AVHRR images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 33(4):997-1007.

Schowengerdt, R. 1987. Modify University of Arizona Restoration, Software Module System, AVHRR Image Deconvolution/Resampling Capability. Final Report to USGS Contract No. PO 060206-86, 45 pp.

Steffen, K., R. Bindschadler, G. Casassa, J. Comiso, D. Eppler, F. Fetterer, J. Hawkins, J. Key, D. Rothrock, R. Thomas, R. Weaver, and R. Welch. 1993. Snow and ice applications of AVHRR in polar regions: report of a workshop held in Boulder, Colorado, 20 May 1992. Annals of Glaciology 17:1-15.

Vermote, E. and Y. Kaufman. 1995. Absolute calibration of AVHRR visible and near-infrared channels using ocean and land views. International Journal of Remote Sensing 16(13):2317-2340.

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Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 1999-10-05

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