AVHRR Polar 1 Km Level 1B Data Set View Catalog Page 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°
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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
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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.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 1999-10-05
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