Polar Orbiting and Geostationary Satellite Data from Dundee University via WWW

The National Environment Research Council (NERC) Satellite Station at Dundee
University (UK) server address on the WWW is 'http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/'.

The Natural Environment Research Council, established by Royal Charter in 1965,
has responsibility for planning, encouraging and carrying out research in the
physical and biological sciences which explain the natural processes of the
environment.

The NERC satellite station at Dundee University has been systematically
recording HRPT data from NOAA satellites on a daily basis since the launch of
the prototype 3rd generation NOAA satellite TIROS-N in October 1978. It also
recorded data from the CZCS on NIMBUS-7 between August 1979 and the end of the
mission in December 1986. SeaWiFS, NIMBUS-7's replacement was launched on 1st
August 1997 and Dundee is receiving and archiving this data. MODIS data from
EOS AM/PM satellites (Terra, Aqua) will also be archived.

HRPT data is stored on magnetic tape and optical disk and is available from
Dundee for all NOAA satellite passes from 1978 onwards. Formats include raw
data on exabytes and CD-ROMs, processed images, high quality enhanced
photographic enlargments, photographic browse files etc. Data is also available
over the network from the web site.

The quicklook archive contains sampled images from every NOAA satellite pass
received at Dundee. The images are sampled to contain the complete pass in
each of the 5 AVHRR channels plus a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. The
images are also corrected for earth curvature and have a grid overlay showing
coastlines and latitude/longitude lines. Browsing the archive to search for
specific areas or features is made easier with access to our database of all
passes we have received. Thumbnail images allow those with slow network
connections to view a series of small images for quick comparisons or when
searching for major features.