NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Surface Reflectance, Version 4 (Version Superseded)

Description

*Note: This dataset version has been superseded by a newer version. It is highly recommended that users access the current version. Users should only use this version for special cases, such as reproducing studies that used this version.* This dataset contains gridded daily surface reflectance and brightness temperatures derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors onboard eight NOAA polar orbiting satellites: NOAA-7, -9, -11, -14, -16, -17, -18 and -19. Surface reflectance from AVHRR channels 1 and 2 (at 640 and 860 nm) are a NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR). The dataset spans from 1981 to 10 days before the present, and was processed from the AVHRR Global Area Coverage (GAC) Level 1b dataset. AVHRR GAC observations are packaged into data arrays with latitude and longitude dimensions of 3600 x 7200 covering the globe at 0.05 degree spatial resolution. This dataset is one of the Land Surface CDR products produced by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Maryland (UMD). Other Land Surface CDR products include the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR). Improvements made for Version 4 include 1) additional data from NOAA satellites extending the time period, 2) improved geolocation accuracy from use of OLE instead of TLE, 3) center of the grid is used as the reference, and 4) data value of a grid cell is computed as an average of available good observations. The dataset is in the netCDF-4 file format following ACDD and CF Conventions. The dataset is accompanied by algorithm documentation, data flow diagram and source code for the NOAA CDR Program.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5TM782M
0 Contact NCEI for more information and to request access to the archived data. Requests are subject to NCEI order fulfillment constraints. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/K-3733-2012/
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/K-3733-2012/
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/D-2396-2010
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/F-5129-2012
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/F-5129-2012
0 ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) of the author. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-8997
0 ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) of the author. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-8997
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/E-1485-2012
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/E-1485-2012
0 ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) of the author. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9479-3205
0 ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) of the author. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9479-3205
0 Contact information for the CDR Program. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/climate-data-records
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Landing page for the Current Version. https://doi.org/10.7289/V53776Z4
0 Report documenting the Scientific Data Stewardship Maturity for this dataset. https://doi.org/10.25923/z5qh-5b12
0 Project page with dataset information. https://ltdr.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ltdr/ltdrPage.cgi
0 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI(s). https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.7289/V5TM782M+OR+10.1109%2FIGARSS.2007.4422974
0 Related dataset landing page. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5M043BX
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Web of Science ResearcherID of the author. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/D-2396-2010
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Pedelty, J., Devadiga, S., Masuoka, E., Brown, M., Pinzon, J., Tucker, C., … Pinheiro, A. (2007). Generating a long-term land data record from the AVHRR and MODIS Instruments. 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2007.4422974 https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422974
0 Related dataset landing page. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5PZ56R6
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Report documenting the Scientific Data Stewardship Maturity for this dataset. https://doi.org/10.25923/z5qh-5b12
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords

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