ADEOS-I Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS) Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR) Global Binned Data

Description

On August 17, 1996, the Japanese Space Agency (NASDA - National Space Development Agency) launched the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS). ADEOS was in a descending, Sun synchronous orbit with a nominal equatorial crossing time of 10:30 a.m. Amoung the instruments carried aboard the ADEOS spacecraft was the Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS). OCTS is an optical radiometer with 12 bands covering the visible, near infrared and thermal infrared regions. (Eight of the bands are in the VIS/NIR. These are the only bands calibrated and processed by the OBPG) OCTS has a swath width of approximately 1400 km, and a nominal nadir resolution of 700 m. The instrument operated at three tilt states (20 degrees aft, nadir and 20 degrees fore), similar to SeaWiFS.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FADEOS-I%2FOCTS%2FL3B%2FPAR%2F2014
21 NASA Ocean Color Web - Data Distribution Site https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCTS/L3BIN/
21 NASA Ocean Color Web - Data Processing History https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/reprocessing
21 Ocean Color Forum https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/forum/oceancolor/forum_show.pl
21 NASA Ocean Color Web - Algorithm Descriptions https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/par
21 OB.DAAC OCTS ADEOS-I L3B Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR) Landing Page https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/10.5067/ADEOS-I/OCTS/L3B/PAR/2014
21 NASA Ocean Color Web - Instrument Description Page https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/octs

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  • oceans
  • ocean-optics
  • earth-science

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