Array · collection
Antarctic Composite Images
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The Antarctic composite satellite image is a mosaic of geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data in the infrared window channel (approximately 11.0 microns) centered over the South Pole and covering much of the Southern Hemisphere.
Description
The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) has built these composites every three hours (0, 3, 6, etc. Universal Time Coordinated (UTC)) since 30 October 1992, and eventually hourly starting in 2009.
The composite has a nominal resolution of 10 kilometers (as of 2014 4km) and the data is combined into a Polar Stereographic projection. The composites are made in 5 difference channels (infrared, water vapor, visible, shortwave, and longwave). The orientation of the composites is deliberately choosen in support of the United States Antarctic Program forecasting operations between New Zealand and Ross Island Antarctica.
Read the rest (2 more)
Thus, Grid North is not the orientation of the composites. The composite is generated at the AMRC offices at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center and is distributed to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. It is also available on the Internet.
Archived composites are available upon request to the AMRC at ssec.wisc.edu/contact-form/index.php?name=AMRC. The data is available in the following data formats: McIDAS AREA, netCDF, ASCII or binary "flat" files and the following picture formats: GIF, JPG, PPM, BMP, JPG, PS, CPS (Others possible including TIF, etc.).
Links
Get the data
Documentation and papers
- NSF Award #1535632 Abstract nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1535632 ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- NSF Award #1141908 Abstract nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1141908 ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- NSF Award #0838834 Abstract nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0838834 ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- NSF Award #0537827 Abstract nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0537827 ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Access all real-time datasets amrc.ssec.wisc.edu ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214608767-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214608767-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer · GOES I-M Imager · Infrared Imagery · NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites · Not provided · Operational Linescan System · SATELLITES · Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer · Visible Imagery
- Inferred from text
- Image 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 17 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214608767-SCIOPS | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:avhrr | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:goes-i-m-imager | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:ols | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:vissr | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/infrared-wavelengths/infrared-imagery | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/visible-wavelengths/visible-imagery | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:noaa-poes | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:satellites | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |