Research Catalog

Title

Technical documentation with imagery and digital data : NOAA polar orbiter data user's guide (August 1997) and NOAA global vegetation index user's guide (July 1997) / [produced by National Climatic Data Center].

Publication

Asheville, NC : U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, [1997]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite Program (U.S.)
• National Climatic Data Center (U.S.)

Description

1 computer optical laser disc; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Contains description of the instruments on the NOAA POES series from TIROS-N through NOAA-14, the level 1b data format that NOAA uses to distribute raw data to users, and derived data products including TOVS soundings, sea surface temperature (SST), mapped GAC, and radiation budget; it also describes the various products derived from NOAA POES data to monitor global vegetation growth and distribution.

Alternative Title

• NOAA polar orbiter data user's guide (August 1997)
• NOAA global vegetation index user's guide (July 1997)

Subjects

• Artificial satellites in earth sciences
• Remote-sensing images > Databases
• Vegetation dynamics > Remote sensing > Databases
• Global radiation > Remote sensing > Databases
• Meteorology > Remote sensing > Databases
• Oceanography > Remote sensing > Databases

Note

• Title from disc label.
• "August 1997."
• "National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Technical Documentation CD-ROM for users of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES) data and products"--Readme.txt.

System Details (note)

• System requirements: Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; CD-ROM drive; World Wide Web browser capable of supporting embedded graphics and the HTML v3.2 draft specification (browser software included on CD-ROM).
• Disk characteristics: CD-ROM.

OCLC

ocm37926338

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries