Indiana University
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].
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.

Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite Program (U.S.) ; National Climatic Data Center (U.S.)
Asheville, NC : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center[1997]

System Details :

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.


Notes :

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.


Subject Headings :

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


Record Info :

(OCoLC)ocm37926338
(GPO)97101616
(InU)AKA5483FW
(InU)BNH2029NW
(InU)AJR9759BB


Indiana University Catalog Information


C 55.281/2-2: IM 1

Installation Notes :

This disc is arranged as a series of HTML files that are linked to each other through the Welcome page (intro.htm). The Welcome page has the following links: General Information - contains files describing the organization and contents of the CD-ROM, how to access WordPerfect and Postscript files of the documents on the Internet using ftp, software for an off-line browser and information on ordering this CD-ROM from NCDC.


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