Summary The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) is a broad-band, four or five channel (depending on the model) scanner, sensing in the visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This sensor is carried on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), ... beginning with TIROS-N in 1978.
The AVHRR Product generator is an application designed to improve the process of requesting and receiving data from a database of L1B images. The process involves four easy steps: temporal search, profile creation/search, product request, and retrieval of the finished product. The database of L1B images now contains AVHRR data for the West Coast of North America from June 1999 to present. Earlier AVHRR data back to October 1993 can be retrieved upon request from archives.
Anyone with access to the web can use a web browser to search the metadata and request a spatial and/or spectral subset of an image. The image is then delivered to the user in the requested format via an email message that includes a universal resource locator (URL), or Web address, from which the image can be viewed and/or downloaded.
Quality The AVHRR sensor provides global (pole to pole) on board collection of data from all spectral channels. Each pass of the satellite provides a 2399 km wide swath. The satellite orbits the Earth 14 times each day from 833 km above its surface.
Use Constraints Note: you must have cookies enabled on your browser for the AVHRR Web Tool to work properly.
Name:
JAMES
FREW
Phone:
(805) 893-7356
Fax:
(805) 893-7612
Email:
frew at icess.ucsb.edu
Email:
frew at bren.ucsb.edu
Contact Address:
Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Donald Bren Hall 4524
University of California City:
Santa Barbara
Province or State:
CA
Postal Code:
93106-5131
Country:
USA
Distribution Media
Distribution_Media:
Electronic
Distribution_Format:
downloadable web image
Personnel
TYLER
B.
STEVENS Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
Publications/References Kidwell, Katherine B., comp. and ed., 1995, NOAA Polar Orbiter Data (TIROS-N, NOAA-6, NOAA-7, NOAA-8, NOAA-9, NOAA-10, NOAA-11, NOAA-12, and NOAA-14) Users Guide: Washington, D.C., NOAA/NESDIS.
Kidwell, Katherine B., comp. and ed., 1994. Global Vegetation Index Users Guide: Washington, D.C., NOAA/NESDIS.
Hastings, David A., and William J. Emery, 1992. The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR): A Brief Reference Guide. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol. 58, No. 8, August 1992, pp. 1183-1188.
Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date:
2000-08-16
SERF Last Revision Date:
2006-08-09
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