Remote Sensing

Data Acquisition, Archiving, and Management Plan (Original) February 14, 1992

High Resolution Picture Transmission System (HRPT) Ground Station Network

Orbital Pass Generation Nearly 45,000 individual observations were acquired during the first 30 months of this project. The number of individual scenes and overall data volume, an estimated 4.0 terabytes, are large by contemporary standards. As a result a new process was developed to improve data management.

Background 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 NOAA's Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), beginning with TIROS-N in 1978.

Receiving Station / CEOS Code

The Advanced Solid-state Array Spectroradiometer (ASAS) data collection contains data collected by the ASAS sensor flown aboard NASA aircraft.

MASTER - MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator

Photos taken from the International Space Station (ISS), Shuttle, Skylab, Gemini, and Apollo missions. (1965 - present)

The Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) is an image-producing system that derives its name from the fact that the radar beam is transmitted from the side of the aircraft during data acquisition.

Natural color aerial photographs acquired by a 35mm camera systems over 33 counties in eastern South Dakota. Farm Service Agency (FSA) acquired yearly imagery from 1979 through 2002.

The Public Affairs Office (PAO) Image Gallery collection is composed of a wide variety of data ranging from low altitude aircraft to satellite to NASA imagery. Dates span from the early ‘70’s to present.

Black-and-white and color infrared aerial photographs obtained from an altitude of 40,000 feet over the United States that are available as medium or high resolution digital images. (1980-1989)