Composites Offer Earliest Digital Infrared View of Earth

Data users can now download global composites of the earliest known satellite-based digital infrared observations of Earth. Nimbus High Resolution Infrared Radiometer Remapped Digital Data Daily L3, HDF5, constructed by the NASA-funded Nimbus Data Rescue Project, expands the team's data roster with daily composites of HRIR data recorded in 1964, 1966, and 1969 by the Nimbus 1, Nimbus 2, and Nimbus 3 satellites. The related data set, Nimbus High Resolution Infrared Radiometer Remapped Digital Data Daily L3, GeoTIFF, offers users GeoTIFF versions of each composites' equatorial projection. For more general information, visit the Nimbus Data Rescue Project data collection.