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OAS accession Detail for 8700069
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| accessions_id: | 8700069 |
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| Title: | Geodetic data records (GDRs) from the GEOSAT Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) from 1986-11-02 to 1986-12-12 (NCEI Accession 8700069) |
| Abstract: | This dataset contains one month of geodetic data records (GDRs) from the GEOSAT Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) for the time period of November 02, 1986 to December 12, 1986. Parameters include: time, orbit, latitude/longitude, and sea surface height. Corrections to the data include: sea level, wind and wave data, tides, dry and wet troposphere, ionosphere, height bias, altimeter crossover differences, altimeter sea surface measurement, and spacecraft orientation. These data were submitted by the U.S. Navy via National Oceanic Service. The US Navy Geosat (Geodetic Satellite) radar altimeter mission lasted for nearly 5 years (March 1985 to January 1990) and collected approximately 750 million measurements of sea level, wave height, and wind speed over the global oceans. During the Geodetic Mission (March 1985 to September 1986), the satellite did not repeat its ground track for the duration of the mission. The orbit of the satellite was changed in October 1986 to begin the Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) which lasted from November 8, 1986 until the satellite quit functioning in January 1990. During the ERM, the satellite repeated its ground track every 17 days. Data were initially processed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD in coordination with the NOAA/NOS Satellite Altimeter Group. Data products were transferred to the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) for distribution. Data products are archived at the NODC. Please note on Oct 20, 2004 when this abstract was written the data was offline. The abstract should be checked against the online data before uploading. |
| Date received: | 19870226 |
| Start date: | 19861102 |
| End date: | 19861212 |
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| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 72 |
| South boundary: | -72 |
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| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD |
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| Supplementary information: | Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description. To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE - ROCKVILLE PI: N/A Address: address: 6001 EXECUTIVE BLVD. city: ROCKVILLE state: MD postal: NOT AVAILABLE country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19870226 |
| Metadata version: | 8 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:37:30+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-01-12 14:31:53+00 |