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Coastal Zone Colour Scanner (CZCS) - Level 0 data from NEODAAS Dundee Satellite Receiving Station
The Coastal Zone Colour Scanner (CZCS) was a multi-channel scanning radiometer aboard the US Nimbus 7 satellite. Nimbus 7 was launched 24 October 1978, and CZCS became operational on 2 November 1978. It was only designed to operate for one year (as a proof-of-concept), but in fact remained in service until 22 June 1986. Its operation on board the Nimbus 7 was limited to alternate days as it shared its power with the passive microwave scanning multi channel microwave radiometer.
CZCS measured reflected solar energy in six channels, at a resolution of 800 meters. These measurements were used to map chlorophyll concentration in water, sediment distribution, salinity, and the temperature of coastal waters and ocean currents.
The data were transferred to CEDA when the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station (NEODAAS Dundee node) facility was closed to continue the long term archive.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-05-06T12:53:12
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-05-06T12:53:12
- Identifier
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA Goddard) / c4f160a450f540f4bacb57b4bf2f4697
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- CZCS
- Radiometer
- Nimbus 7
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1978-11-02T00:00:00
- End date
- 1986-06-22T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are in bzip2 format.
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Data are in bzip2 format.
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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- OnLine resource
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CZCS webpage
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data was collected via the NEODAAS Dundee Satellite Receiving Station. This was then transferred to CEDA to allow the long term archive to continue.
- File identifier
- c4f160a450f540f4bacb57b4bf2f4697 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) Core datasets 82b29f96b8c94db28ecc51a479f8c9c6
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:16:29
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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