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NASA GES-DAAC PAL vegetation continent dataset
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This page describes and gives options for manipulating the NASA GES-DAAC PAL vegetation continent dataset. We start with the options for manipulating, because once you are comfortable with the system, they are the most useful.

Dataset Options


NASA GES-DAAC PAL vegetation continent options Help Expert Mode
Help/Terse
switches back and forth between this relatively descriptive page that contains extended explanations, and the page that just has the information.
Expert Mode
switches into a mode that lets you access several datasets at the same time, and enter data-manipulating commands directly as text rather than clicking on a series of pages.

When in Expert Mode there is a list of active datasets at the top of the page, followed by a text window containing the command equivalent of the current page. These commands can be edited or extended.

Note that there will be many more options once you have picked a particular variable, because the server is currently more adept at manipulating single variables than it is at manipulating datasets (e.g. collections of variables).

Dataset Description

We start with a quick reminder of where you are in the collection of datasets.

SOURCESNASAGES-DAACPathfinder AVHRR Landvegetationcontinent

As you go from left to right, the datasets listed get more and more specific, ending with the current dataset, NASA GES-DAAC PAL vegetation continent. Datasets with documentation are marked (*): the * links to the documentation directly.

NASA GES-DAAC PAL vegetation continent

vegetation continent from NASA GES-DAAC PAL: Vegetation data by continent from Pathfinder AVHRR.

Documents

give additional information about the current dataset.
overview
shows an overview of the different parts of this dataset (the parts shown are sub-datasets, see below).

References

Brown, O.W., J.W. Brown, and R.H. Evans. 1985. Calibration of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90:11667- 11677.

Rao, C.R.N. 1993a. Nonlinearity corrections for the thermal infrared channels of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer: assessment and recommendations. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS-69. NOAA/NESDIS. Washington, DC.

Rao, C.R.N. 1993b. Degradation of the visible and near-infrared channels of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer on the NOAAP9 spacecraft: assessment and recommendations for corrections. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS- 70. NOAA/NESDIS. Washington, DC.

Staylor, W.F. 1990. Degradation rates of the AVHRR visible channel from the NOAA-6, -7, and -9 spacecraft. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 7:411-423.