NASA AVHRR-LST cld: cloud mask data

AVHRR-LST cloud mask from NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time (time)
grid: /T (days since 1995-01-01 00:00:00) ordered (0000-1200 1 Jan 1995) to (1200-2400 31 Dec 2000) by 0.5 N= 4384 pts :grid
x (projection_x_coordinate)
grid: /x (m) ordered (-4604000.0 m) to (4604000.0 m) by 8000.0 N= 1152 pts :grid
y (projection_y_coordinate)
grid: /y (m) ordered (4604000.0 m) to (-4604000.0 m) by 8000.0 N= 1152 pts :grid

Other Info

Key
1Ocean Clear
2Ocean Clear and glint
3Land Clear
4Land Clear and DDV (dense dark vegetation)
5Ocean Cloudy or mixed
6Land Cloudy or mixed
7Ocean Shadow
8Land Shadow
bufferwordsize
2
datatype
shortarraytype
grid_mapping
Projection
missing_value
0
plotfirst
1
plotlast
8
pointwidth
0.5
scale_max
8
scale_min
1
SpatialReferenceSystemDims
x
y
SpatialReferenceSystemWKT
PROJCS["Albers_Equal_Area_Conic",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1927",DATUM["D_North_American_1927",SPHEROID["Clarke_1866",6378206.4,294.9786982]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Albers"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",20],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",21],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",-19],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",1],UNIT["Meter",1]]
units
ids
history
Night Time Images Revised 1 Jun 2006 from 24 Mar 2006 image files

References

Pinheiro, A. C. T., R. Mahoney, J. L. Privette, and C. J. Tucker. 2006. Development of a daily long-term record of NOAA-14 AVHRR land surface temperature over Africa. Remote Sensing of Environment 103:153-164.

Last updated: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:39:07 GMT

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