The AVHRR quick-looks service: AVHRR quick-looks from Tromso Satellite Station (Norway) coverage area distributed in near-real time

Tromso Satellite Station (TSS) is Norway's national receiving station
for data from polar orbiting satellites. TSS location is ideal for
reception of data from polar orbiting satellites. The area covered by
TSS includes the entire Arctic from West Greenland to the Russian
Taymyr peninsula, as well as the Northern part of Europe and larger
parts of Russia.

Since 1973 Tromso Satellite Station (TSS) has received data from the
NOAA satellites. Using the national part of the internet, Uninett,
TSS has established a near real-time processing and distribution
system for NOAA AVHRR data. Quick looks, raw data set, geo-corrected
data sets, SST and weather images are available for near real-time
delivery to customers in Norway and other countries that can be
reached using Internet or ISDN. The processing and distribution time
for these products are typically 1-3 hours. The AVHRR data for the
entire coverage area of TSS is also stored on optical disks. This
archive is a part of the ESA TIROS Co-ordinated Network.

The NOAA AVHRR QL Service service is based on WWW or FTP and the
quick-looks are a view of a whole pass, with the data resampled to a
spatial resolution of 3 km.