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OAS accession Detail for 8700123, meta_version: 2. Current meta_version is: 9
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| accessions_id: | 8700123 |
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| Title: | Geodetic data records (GDRs) from the GEOSAT Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) from 12 December 1986 to 15 January 1987 (NODC Accession No. - 8700123) |
| Abstract: | This accession contains one month of geodetic data records (GDRs) from the GEOSAT Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) for the time period of December 12, 1986 to January 15, 1987. 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 early 1988 to begin the Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) which lasted from November 1988 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. |
| Date received: | 19870408 |
| Start date: | 19861212 |
| End date: | 19870115 |
| Seanames: | World-Wide Distribution |
| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 90 |
| South boundary: | -90 |
| Observation types: | derived products, satellite data |
| Instrument types: | satellite sensor - altimeter |
| Datatypes: | ALTIMETRY - CROSSOVER DIFFERENCES, ALTIMETRY - SEA SURFACE HEIGHT, SEA LEVEL, SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY, TIDE HEIGHT, WAVE DATA, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WIND SPEED |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD |
| Contributing projects: | UNKNOWN - DO NOT USE |
| Platforms: | SATELLITE (326S) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | Documentation for GEOSAT data accessions is maintained in NODC Accession 0002202 (http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/accession/0002202).
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, the NODC reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this data set 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: | 19870408 |
| Metadata version: | 2 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:37:38+00 |
| Editdate: | 2007-01-03 15:15:49+00 |