This dataset (along with Mapped GAC-Mercator) is the longest essentially continous and relatively homogeneous global product that has been produced from data collected by environmental satellites. ...
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has, in archive, both digital data and hard-copy images from early VISSR (Visible and Infra-Red Spin Scan Radiometer) sensors on board the early Synchronous ...
The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument was flown on the first and subsequent TIROS-N series of polar orbiting spacecraft beginning in October of 1978. The satellite orbits ...