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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
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c4f160a450f540f4bacb57b4bf2f4697
Identifier
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA Goddard) / c4f160a450f540f4bacb57b4bf2f4697
Author
  NEODAAS Dundee Satellite Receiving Station - author
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  NEODAAS Dundee Satellite Receiving Station - principal_investigator
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA Goddard) - publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • CZCS
  • Radiometer
  • Nimbus 7
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • 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
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/earth-science-data/data-information-policy/, appropriate use of these data may fall under unclassified use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Metadata language
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Topic category
  • 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
  • Data are in bzip2 format. ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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CZCS webpage

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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
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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