Table 1 provides descriptions for each column in the data files. An associated Extensible Markup Language (XML) metadata file is also provided for each data file.
Column Number | Description |
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1 | GMT hour of the day (decimal) |
2 | Latitude of the footprint center [°] |
3 | Longitude of the footprint center [°] |
4 | Incidence angle [°] |
5 | Vertically polarized brightness temperature [K] |
6 | Horizontally polarized brightness temperature [K] |
7 | Infrared surface temperature [°C] |
8 | Place holder (Note: Values for place holders vary). |
9 | Place holder (Note: Values for place holders vary). |
10 | The third Stokes parameter (to be calibrated) |
11 | 1 for RFI and 0 for no RFI based on median filtering for TBv and threshold |
12 | 1 for RFI and 0 for no RFI based on median filtering for TBh and threshold |
13 | 1 for RFI and 0 for no RFI based on median filtering for TBv-TBh and threshold |