GCIP/NESOB-96 Land Characterization: EDC Conterminous US AVHRR
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/19.042

Summary
In May 1987, the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC) began
real-time reception of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data
from operational NOAA polar orbiting satellites. EDC receives AVHRR High
Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) data for the entire conterminous United
States, southern Canada, and northern Mexico. The AVHRR Data Acquisition and
Processing System (ADAPS) includes a tracking antenna, a data receiving
subsystem, and a minicomputer with associated peripherals for data processing.
Since the 1989 growing season EDC has used the AVHRR (1 km resolution) daily
observations to produce weekly and biweekly maximum Normalized Difference
Vegetation Index (NDVI) composites of the conterminous United States.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 19.042

Citation
 U.S. Geological Survey. 2001. GCIP/NESOB-96 Land Characterization: EDC
 Conterminous US AVHRR. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/19.042 Accessed 23 Apr 2024.

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Related projects
 * GCIP/NESOB-96: ARM/GCIP Near-Surface Observation Data Set - 1996
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project?GCIP%2FNESOB-96

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: grid
 * Frequency: other
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Land Character

Platforms
 * NOAA POES

Instruments
 * Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer - AVHRR

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION INDEX > NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI)
 * EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER > LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION > VEGETATION INDEX > NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI)

Related links
 * download: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/Webglis/glisbin/guide.pl/glis/hyper/guide/usavhrr
 * info: GCIP Data Plans and Reports
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/gcip-data-plans-and-reports
 * homepage: GCIP/NESOB 96 EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcipnesob-96
 * homepage: GCIP EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcip

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1989-04-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2001-03-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 20.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -120.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -50.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * originator: U.S. Geological Survey
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/472

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/19.042?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/19.042?format=isotc211