COLLECTION METADATA FOR THE ESSW AVHRR COLLECTION
Title Earth System Science Workbench: AVHRR Level 1b Data.
Short title ESSW AVHRR.
Responsible party Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Scope and purpose The Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS) operates a SeaSpace TeraScan ground station that automatically receives and processes HRPT telemetry from the AVHRR sensors on board the NOAA polar-orbiting satellites. We've programmed the TeraScan system to acquire any AVHRR imagery transmitted by the NOAA-12 and NOAA-14 satellites, whenever they're at least 20 degrees above the horizon at UCSB. The imagery is stored as a level 1b (radiometrically calibrated) TDF (TeraScan Data Format). The visible and Near IR channels are albedos, while the IR channels are brightness temperatures. This collection can also be accessed through the Earth System Science Workbench.
Content type AVHRR imagery.
Creation date June 2000.
Update frequency Daily.
Collection overview
Total item count 6,645 items as of November 26, 2002.Item metadataSpatial (geographic) coverage
Temporal coverage
Sample record ADL full metadata report for item 3533, "AVHRR noaa-12 1999-12-08 13:09:00 UTC", in XML and HTML.Supported search buckets
Geographic locationsTerms and conditions Copyright (c) 2000 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Description Geographic locations and regions described by latitude/longitude coordinates.DatesMetadata mapping Image footprints.
Description Dates and date ranges.Subject-related textMetadata mapping Pass dates.
Description Subject-related text, not necessarily from controlled vocabularies.Metadata mapping Platform names.
Notes Words are separated by whitespace.
Contact
Deborah Donahue
Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
University of California at Santa Barbara
4670 Physical Sciences North
Santa Barbara, California 93106
E-mail: donahue@bren.ucsb.edu
Phone: 805-893-5805