Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, near Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

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12/20/97 - Date this file created. G. Shore.
12/22/97 - Corrected Thermal Bands 3, 4, and 5 according to instructions
         detailed in the files avhrrfix.txt and us.lut found on the 1996
         USGS-EDC US AVHRR CD set (See Appendix III below). G. Shore.
10/30/01 - Added date/time fields to APPENDIX II section. G. Shore.


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DATA SET CODE AND TITLE

SEV031 AVHRR Biweekly Composites (1995)


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ABSTRACT
   This dataset contains 25 separate 14-day composited AVHRR
images for 1995 clipped approximatedly to the New Mexico State
boundaries (plus 50 Km buffer around boundary).  These were
obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC),
National Mapping Division, from the "CONTERMINOUS U.S. AVHRR BIWEEKLY
COMPOSITES" CD product series.


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KEYWORDS
SEV031 AVHRR Advanced_Very_High_Resolution_Radiometer NOAA Satellite_Imagery Remote_Sensing USGS_EROS_Data_Center 1995


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.    WHY THE DATA WERE COLLECTED
II.   WHEN THE DATA WERE COLLECTED
III.  WHO IS INVOLVED WITH THE DATA
IV.   WHERE TH DATA WERE COLLECTED
V.    HOW THE DATA WERE COLLECTED AND PROCESSED BY THE USGS EDC
VI.   HOW THE DATA WERE PROCESSED BY THE SEVILLETA IMS (SIMS)
VII.  APPENDIX I - USGS EDC Metadata
VIII. APPENDIX II - Pixel Date Attribute Table
IX.   APPENDIX III - USGS EDC Thermal Bands (3,4,5) Correction Procedures


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I. WHY THE DATA WERE COLLECTED

   See the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC)
documentation in APPENDIX I below.


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II. WHEN THE DATA WERE COLLECTED

   Twenty-five 14-day composites for 1995.  See the U.S. Geological
Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC) documentation in APPENDIX I below
for specific composite periods.


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III. WHO IS INVOLVED WITH THE DATA

SOURCE AGENCY CONTACTS:
    See the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC) documentation
in APPENDIX I below for USGS EDC contacts.

LOCAL SEVILLETA LTER CONTACTS:
Primary contact:
    Greg Shore, Sevilleta LTER (gshore@sevilleta.unm.edu).

Principle investigators:
    Bruce Milne, Sevilleta LTER (bmilne@sevilleta.unm.edu)

GIS/GPS specialist:
    Greg Shore, Sevilleta LTER (gshore@sevilleta.unm.edu).

Data Management
    Greg Shore, Sevilleta LTER (gshore@sevilleta.unm.edu)
 

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IV. WHERE THE DATA WERE COLLECTED

    The original biweekly composited images covered the
Conterminous United States.  However, the images were clipped
to the approximate New Mexico State boundaries (plus 50 Km buffer
around boundary) for online access purposes, while the full U.S.
scenes are stored offline on tape.  The clipping coordinates were
selected to perform exact clipping, so no resampling was required.
The approximate online (NM clipped) boundaries are:

      Latitude/Longitude, decimal degrees (Clarke 1866 spheroid)
XMIN: -109.515170   YMIN 30.759247   XMAX -102.454601   YMAX 37.817184

      Lambert Azimuthal Equal-area (see EDC document for projection info)
XMIN: -914000       YMIN -1529000    XMAX -216000       YMAX -795000

The source and the clipped images are in the following map projection:
      Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection
      Parameters:
        Radius of sphere                6,370,997.0 meters
        Longitude of central meridian   100 00 00 West
        Latitude of origin               45 00 00 North
        False easting                     0
        False northing                    0
        Units of measure                  meters
        Pixel size                     1,000 meters

Each clipped image has 735 rows and 699 columns, and has a cell size
of 1000 x 1000 m.

    See the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC) documentation
in APPENDIX I below for spatial extent, projection information, etc.,
related to the full Conterminous US scenes.


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V. HOW THE DATA WERE COLLECTED AND PROCESSED BY THE USGS EDC

   See the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC)
documentation in APPENDIX I below.


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VI. HOW THE DATA WERE PROCESSED BY THE SEVILLETA IMS (SIMS)

   The general SIMS processing steps for each biweekly composite
period were to read the 10 image bands off the source USGS-EDC CD,
concatenate/import them into a 10-band ERDAS Imagine format image
file, georegister to the USGS-EDC specifications, clip the scene
to the approximate New Mexico State boundaries, move the clipped
scene to the online SIMS archive, and write the full scene to
offline tape.

   The band order in the archived scenes is:

          1- NOAA CHANNEL 1         6- NDVI
          2- NOAA CHANNEL 2         7- SATELLITE ZENITH
          3- NOAA CHANNEL 3         8- SOLAR ZENITH
          4- NOAA CHANNEL 4         9- RELATIVE AZIMUTH
          5- NOAA CHANNEL 5        10- DATE

The bands are described in detail in the U.S. Geological Survey's
EROS Data Center (EDC) documentation in APPENDIX I below.  The
attribute data for the "DATE" band is found in APPENDIX II below.

*NOTE* that the Thermal Bands 3, 4, and 5 were corrected according to
       instructions detailed in the files avhrrfix.txt and us.lut found
       on the 1996 USGS-EDC US AVHRR CD set (See Appendix III below for
       copy of this file).  A phone call to the USGS-EDC on 12/22/97
       verified that although the 1996 data were processed correctly
       before release, that the 1995 data set still needed this additional
       correction of the thermal bands.

A more precise description of the processing steps is as follows:

1. Mount AVHRR CD

2. Read the 10 bands of information off the CD for each biweekly composited
   scene, concatenate the 10 bands into a single file, then import as an
   ERDAS Imagine 10-band image file (of size  2889 rows x 4587 cols).  This
   process was automated with the C-shell script:

      /db/local/imagery/bincom/avhrr_import.csh 95

        NOTE: this generates 10-band ERDAS Imagine format files, that are of
              image size 2889 rows x 4587 cols, with filenames as follows:

            avhrr95pPP.img

                  where: PP = bi-weekly growth period number

              and bands in following order::
                1- NOAA CHANNEL 1         6- NDVI
                2- NOAA CHANNEL 2         7- SATELLITE ZENITH 
                3- NOAA CHANNEL 3         8- SOLAR ZENITH 
                4- NOAA CHANNEL 4         9- RELATIVE AZIMUTH
                5- NOAA CHANNEL 5        10- DATE

3. Georegister the scene as follows:
   Bring up ERDAS Imagine GUI, then Tools->ImageInfo tool and do:
   1. File->Open->avhrr95pPP.img
   2. Edit->Change Map Model:
      a. Upper Left X: -2050000
      b. Upper Left Y: 752000
      c. Pixel Size X: 1000
      d. Pixel Size Y: 1000
      e. Units: meters
      f. Projection: Lambert Azimuthal Equal-area
      NOTE: click OK, then answer "Yes" to changing Map Model in all layers.
   3. Edit->Add/Change Projection:
      a. Spheroid Name: Sphere of Radius 6370997m
      b. Datum Name: Undefined
      c. Longitude of center of projection: 100:00:00 W
      d. Latitude of center of projection: 45:00:00 N
      e. False easting: 0.0 meters
      f. False northing: 0.0 meters
      NOTE: click OK, then answer "Yes" to changing Map Model in all layers.
   4. Edit->Change Layer Name:
      a. Change bands 1 - 5 to Channel_1, Channel_2, ..., Channel_5,respectively
      b. Change band 6 to NDVI
      c. Change bands 7 - 10 to SATELLITE_ZENITH, SOLAR ZENITH,
         RELATIVE_AZIMUTH, and DATE, respectively

4. Clip full-scene to New Mexico minimum bounding box (+50 Km buffer) with
   coordinates ULx = -914000, ULy = -795000, LRx = -216000, LRy = -1529000,
   and dimensions 735 rows x 699 columns.  This process was automated with
   the C-shell scripts:

      /db/local/imagery/bincom/batch_avhrr_clip2nm.csh, which calls:
      /db/local/imagery/bincom/avhrr_clip2nm.csh avhrr95pPP.img avhrr95pPPnm.img

        NOTE: this generates 10-band ERDAS Imagine format files, that are of
              image size 735 rows x 699 cols, with filenames as follows:

            avhrr95pPPnm.img

5. Unix compress the NM clipped image, make an archive directory, and move it
   to the archive destination (/db/archive/imagery/avhrr/avhrr95pPP/). This
   process was automated with the C-shell scripts:

        /db/local/imagery/bincom/avhrr_archive.csh

        NOTE: this generates Unix compressed files with filenames as follows:

            avhrr95pPPnm.img.Z

6. Compress (gzip) and archive the full scene image to 4mm DAT tape, then
   remove from online disk:

      gzip avhrr95pPP.img
      mt -f /dev/rmt/0cn fsf <#>
      tar cvf /dev/rmt/0cn avhrr95pPP.img.gz
      rm avhrr95pPP.img.gz

7. Copy the most current yearly "USGS-EDC-AVHRR Dataset README" file off CD for
   inclusion in the online SIMS IAF metadata file (avhrr95.dbf) for the images
   (note, must also convert from DOS to Unix file):

      dos2unix /cdrom/cdrom0/readme.1st avhrr95readme.1st

8. Copy the "Date of Acquisition by Pixel" attribute file off each CD, then
   split by biweekly period for inclusion in GIS/RS Metadata Abstract file
   (avhrr95pPPnm.mda), and merge by year for inclusion in SIMS IAF metadata
   file (avhrr95.dbf):

      dos2unix /cdrom/cdrom0/geom/date.att avhrr95pPP-PPdate.att

        /db/local/imagery/bincom/batch_avhrr_split_dateatt.csh, which calls:
        /db/local/imagery/bincom/avhrr_split_dateatt.csh

        /db/local/imagery/bincom/avhrr_concat_dates.csh 95 > avhrr95date.att

9. Generate (this) SIMS IAF metadata file (i.e., avhrr95.dbf) using template
   file (avhrr_dbf.tmpl), appending readme file (avhrr95readme.1st), and date
   file (avhrr95date.att).

10. Generate GIS/RS Metadata Abstract file for each image, and put with
    image in appropriate directory (/db/archive/imagery/avhrr/avhrr95pPP/):

       /db/local/imagery/bincom/get_avhrr_dates.csh 95 avhrr95.dbf 97 \
                                        > avhrr95periods.txt

       /db/local/imagery/bincom/batch_make_avhrr_abstract.csh avhrr95periods.txt
       which calls:
       /db/local/imagery/bincom/make_avhrr_abstract.csh

11. Correct Thermal Bands 3, 4, and 5 according to instructions provided
    in USGS EDC files avhrrfix.txt and us.lut found on 1996 CD data set
    (both found in APPENDIX III below):

       /db/local/imagery/bincom/fix_avhrr95bands345.csh, which calls
       /db/local/imagery/bincom/fix_avhrr95bands345.mdl


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VII.  APPENDIX I - USGS EDC Metadata

            THE 1995 CONTERMINOUS U.S. AVHRR BIWEEKLY COMPOSITES
                             TABLE OF CONTENTS


                                                              Page
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Data Set Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Scene Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Satellite and Solar Viewing Geometry. . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Radiometric Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. . . . . . . . . . . .
   Date of Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Geometric Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Compositing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Miscellaneous Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CD-ROM Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .




               THE 1995 CONTERMINOUS U.S. AVHRR BIWEEKLY COMPOSITES

                                INTRODUCTION
In 1987, the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC), in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, began receiving Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)
data from NOAA polar-orbiting satellites.  The central location of the EDC in
the United States enables direct reception of all AVHRR overpasses of the
lower 48 States, as well as much of Canada and Mexico.  Early in the 1990
growing season the EDC started acquiring NOAA-11 AVHRR 1-km resolution daily
observations to produce weekly and biweekly maximum normalized difference
vegetation index (NDVI) composites of the conterminous United States
(Eidenshink, 1992).  The objective of the vegetation mapping program is to
compile, annually, a comprehensive series of calibrated, georegistered, daily
observations, and biweekly maximum NDVI composites.  These data are being
published on CD-ROM for distribution of the data set.  These data sets can be
used in environmental monitoring and global climate change studies.

The vegetation diversity of the conterminous United States provides
opportunities for using both AVHRR data and the NDVI for monitoring vegetation
condition in several different ecosystems, including forests, agricultural
crops, and grasslands.  The data set provides a comprehensive growing season
profile of these ecosystems, is extremely useful for assessing seasonal
variations in vegetation conditions, and provides a foundation for studying
long-term changes resulting from human or natural factors.




                        DATA SET CHARACTERISTICS
The data set is composed of twenty-one 14-day maximum NDVI composites, created
from nearly 400 NOAA-14 images, and 3 single date images.  The 17 core
composite periods represent a continuous period from January 20, 1995 to
January 4, 1996.  The 1995 data set is available as a set of seven CD-ROM's.
Each of the first six discs has four biweekly composites and miscellaneous
data that are described later in this file.  The seventh disc of the 1995
CD-ROM series contains a biweekly composite and miscellaneous data, some daily
observation AVHRR scenes selected from key periods during the 1995 growing
season, and NDVI statistics of all counties in the conterminous United States
for each composite period.  The daily observations were selected at the end of
the 1995 growing season and are identified and described on the seventh disc.

Each daily observation includes nine bands of information: AVHRR channels 1-5,
NDVI, satellite zenith, solar zenith, and relative azimuth.  The daily
observations have been calibrated to reflectance, scaled to byte data, and
geometrically registered to the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area map projection.

Each 14-day composite includes 10 bands of information, the 9 bands described
above for each daily observation and a 10th band, which is a pointer to
identify the date of the source daily observation scene.  The data for each
pixel in the composite are extracted from the daily observation scene on the
basis of the maximum NDVI compositing process.


The 14-day composite periods for 1995 were:
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Period       Date of coverage             Julian day
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   1        01/20 - 02/02/1995            020 - 033
   2        02/03 - 02/16/1995            034 - 047
   3        02/17 - 03/02/1995            048 - 061
   4        03/03 - 03/16/1995            062 - 075
   5        03/17 - 03/30/1995            076 - 089
   6        03/31 - 04/13/1995            090 - 103
   7        04/14 - 04/27/1995            104 - 117
   8        04/28 - 05/11/1995            118 - 131
   9        05/12 - 05/25/1995            132 - 145
  10        05/26 - 06/08/1995            146 - 159
  11        06/09 - 06/22/1995            160 - 173
  12        06/23 - 07/06/1995            174 - 187
  13        07/07 - 07/20/1995            188 - 201
  14        07/21 - 08/03/1995            202 - 215
  15        08/04 - 08/17/1995            216 - 229
  16        08/18 - 08/31/1995            230 - 243
  17        09/01 - 09/14/1995            244 - 257
  18        09/15 - 09/28/1995            258 - 271
  19        09/29 - 10/12/1995            272 - 285
  20        10/13 - 10/26/1995            286 - 299
  21        10/27 - 11/09/1995            300 - 313
  22        11/10 - 11/23/1995            314 - 327
  23        11/24 - 12/07/1995            328 - 341
  24        12/08 - 12/21/1995            342 - 355
  25        12/22 - 01/04/1996            356 - 004
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The image dimensions of each band are 2,889 lines and 4,587 samples (13
megabytes). 

NOTE: Prior to the 1994 image compositing the format of the Land Analysis
System (LAS) files contained a 512 byte header record followed by data blocked
into 512 byte segments for each line.  As a result the dimension increased to
4,608 samples.  The LAS software package no longer has this criteria.  Actual
image data is processed and reported as 2,889 lines by 4,587 samples.



                             PROCEDURES
The sections that follow describe the data processing flow that was used at
the EDC to create a composite data set.  All image processing was conducted
using Land Analysis System (Ailts and others, 1990) software.

Scene Selection
Cloud-free AVHRR observations of the land surface are necessary for monitoring
the vegetation conditions.  A single AVHRR overpass is seldom completely cloud
free.  Holben (1986) showed that compositing AVHRR data acquired over several
days produces spatially continuous cloud-free images over large areas with
sufficient temporal resolution to study green vegetation dynamics.  The
duration of consecutive daily observations is called the compositing period.
On a daily basis during a composite period, each observation of NOAA-14 data
over the conterminous United States was evaluated for cloud cover.  Typically,
there are two satellite overpasses per day, one over the eastern portion of
North America and a second pass over the western part of the continent.  Every
image that provided a clear observation of a large ground surface area at
reasonable nadir viewing angles is included in the composite.  On an average,
18 daily observations per biweekly period are included in the composite.

Satellite and Solar Viewing Geometry
The availability of the viewing geometry information allows studies on the
effects of off-nadir viewing and the investigation of potential data
correction techniques.  The solar zenith angle is used during the calibration
process to correct the solar illumination variability along an orbit.

The computation of the solar and satellite geometry is a process that derives
the satellite zenith, solar zenith, and relative azimuth angle for each image
pixel.  The relative azimuth is the absolute difference between the satellite
and solar azimuth angles.  The computed angles do not exceed 180 degrees.  A
separate image band is created for each of these three angle computations. 

The satellite zenith angle is computed in degrees, in which nadir is
represented as 90 degrees.  Therefore, values less than 90 degrees represent
view angles in the back scattered (easterly) direction and values greater than
90 represent the forward scatter (westerly) direction.  Note that the
effective field of view of the satellite is approximately 55 degrees each side
of nadir, but computed satellite zenith angles can exceed 55 degrees because
of the curvature of the Earth.

The relative azimuth angle is computed as the absolute difference between the
solar azimuth and the satellite azimuth angles.  The computed values are in
the 0 - 180 range.  The relative azimuth angle is computed instead of separate
azimuth angles because only the absolute difference between the azimuth angles
is required for atmospheric correction algorithms.  Also, saving only the
computed relative azimuth angle requires only one band in a daily observation
and composite image instead of two, which reduces the image storage
requirements on CD-ROM. 

Radiometric Calibration
Radiometric calibration of the AVHRR visible and near-infrared channels
(channels 1 and 2) is an important consideration because there is poor
preflight calibration, no onboard calibration, and difficulty with in-flight
calibration.  Preflight calibration coefficients can change while the
instrument is in storage, or after launch, because of the space environment.
Degradation of AVHRR sensors after launch has been well documented (Rao, 1987;
Price, 1987; Holben and others, 1990).  It was determined shortly after launch
that the prelaunch coefficients provided by NOAA were not useful.  Changes in
the response of Channel 1 after the launch were evident.

EDC's ADAPS processing system converts raw digital counts c to percent
surface reflectance R by

        R = (d*d/z)*kb(c-C),

where

        d is the earth-sun distance in astronomical units,
        z is the cosine of the solar zenith angle,
        k is 100 times the inverse of the mean solar flux through the
          bandpass, given in units of square meters microns per watts
          (the factor of 100 converts the reflectance to percent
          reflectance),
        b is the channel's gain coefficient in units of watts per
          square meter per micron per digital count, and
        C is the deep space digital count. 

The inverse of the instrument gain coefficient and the deep space digital
count are obtained from quadratic functions of time t, which is specified
in units of days since launch:

        1/b = a_2*t*t + a_1*t + a_0,
and
        C = e_2*t*t + e_1*t + e_0.

A look-up table gives the values of k and the quadratic coefficients
(a_0, a_1, a_2; e_0, e_1, e_2) for each AVHRR sensor along with the
time period over which these values are valid (Table 1 gives these values
for NOAA-14).  The values of the quadratic coefficients are derived from
a variety of calibration studies (Teillet and Holben, 1994).

Reflectance values for channels 1 and 2 were converted to byte data, where
the range 0 - 254 represents 0 to 63.5 percent reflectance.  The value
255 corresponds to reflectance greater than 63.5 percent.  Any feature
with greater than 63 percent reflectance is considered to be bright and
non-vegetative.



TABLE 1: NOAA-14's inverse mean solar fluxes and quadratic calibration
        coefficients for the inverse instrument gain coefficient and the
        deep space digital count.

   CHANNEL    k    a_0   a_1  a_2   e_0   e_1  e_2  VALID TIME PERIOD
   -------  -----  ----  ---  ---   ----  ---  ---  -----------------
      1     0.196  1.71  0.0  0.0   41.0  0.0  0.0  launch -> present
      2     0.305  2.13  0.0  0.0   41.0  0.0  0.0  launch -> present

The calibration coefficients for AVHRR thermal channels 3, 4, and 5 are
derived onboard the satellite using a view of a stable black body and deep
space as a reference (Kidwell, 1991).  The calibration process converts raw
data values to energy (milliwatts/m**2-steradian-cm-1) using the following
formula:

           E=a+bc
where:
           E is energy,
           a is the intercept,
           b is the gain coefficient, and
           c is the digital count.

Energy is converted to brightness temperature using the inverse of Planck's
radiation function.  The brightness temperatures are represented in Kelvin
units.  A scaling factor was used to convert the brightness temperatures to
byte data.  A scaling factor of 202.5 is subtracted from the brightness
temperature value and the difference is multiplied by 2 to maintain one half
percent accuracy (i.e., a brightness temperature of 280 becomes 155). 

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
The NDVI is the difference of near-infrared (channel 2) and visible
(channel 1) reflectance values normalized over the sum of channels 1 and 2
(NIR-VIS)/(NIR+VIS).  The NDVI equation produces values in the range of -1.0
to 1.0, where increasing positive values indicate increasing green vegetation
and negative values indicate nonvegetated surface features such as water,
barren, ice, snow, or clouds.  The NDVI can be derived at several points in
the processing flow.  To retain the most precision, the NDVI is derived after
calibration of channels 1 and 2, prior to scaling to byte range.  Computation
of the NDVI must precede geometric registration and resampling to maintain
precision in this calculation. 

To scale the computed NDVI results to byte data range, the NDVI computed
value, which ranges from -1.0 to 1.0, is scaled to the range of 0 to 200,
where computed -1.0 equals 0, computed 0 equals 100, and computed 1.0 equals
200.  As a result, NDVI values less than 100 now represent clouds, snow,
water, and other nonvegetative surfaces and values equal to or greater than
100 represent vegetative surfaces. 


Date of Acquisition
The date of acquisition images are provided to allow a user to identify the
specific daily observation used for each pixel.  The date images for each
composite identify each daily image as a unique value.  The unique value is
linked to an inventory of the daily observations.  A complete list of daily
observations used in each composite period is on this CD-ROM under the \GEOM
directory in file DATE.ATT.

Geometric Registration
The process of compositing daily observations for each biweekly period
required each daily overpass to be registered to a common map projection to
ensure that, from day to day, each 1-km pixel represented the same ground
location.  The map projection chosen for the data is the Lambert Azimuthal
Equal Area.  This projection is appropriate for the North American Continent
because of its visual presentation and equal area characteristic, which allows
easy measurement of area throughout the data set.

To perform the image-to-image registration of the data a base image was
developed as a reference.  Tests have shown that the best way to prepare the
base image is to register individual daily orbits to an accurate base map.
The map base used is the hydrography layer of the U.S. Geological Survey
1:2,000,000-scale digital line graph (DLG).  The features in the DLG data,
such as water bodies, rivers, and streams, are identifiable features in the
AVHRR 1-km data.  The DLG data are rasterized to 1-km cells and registered to
the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection before being used as the map base
for the data. 

Approximately 20 near-nadir cloud-free segments of NOAA-11 channel 2 daily
observations from the 1989 and 1990 growing season are manually registered to
the DLG data.  Each segment is verified for accuracy (root-mean-square error
less than 1 pixel).  The segments are digitally mosaicked to produce a single
base image of the conterminous United States for registering the 1995 growing
season data.  The accuracy of this base image is verified with a
root-mean-square error less than 1 pixel.  Table 1 provides details on
projection parameters. 

Table 2.  Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area  (LAZEA) projection
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Parameters:
   Radius of sphere                6,370,997.0 meters
   Longitude of central meridian   100 00 00 West
   Latitude of origin               45 00 00 North
   False easting                     0
   False northing                    0
   Units of measure                  meters
   Pixel size                     1,000 meters
For the conterminous United States (1995)
   Center of pixel (1,1)            ( -2050000,   752000 )
   Number of lines                  2,889
   Number of samples                4,587
   LAZEA minimum bounding rectangle:
    In projection meters:
      Lower left                    ( -2050500, -2136500 )
      Upper left                    ( -2050500,   752500 )
      Upper right                   (  2536500,   752500 )
      Lower right                   (  2536500, -2136500 )
    In decimal degrees of longitude and latitude:                
      Lower left                    ( -119.9722899  23.5837576 )
      Upper left                    ( -128.5300591  48.4030555 )
      Upper right                   (  -65.3946489  46.7048989 )
      Lower right                   (  -75.4163527  22.4793919 )

    In degrees, minutes, and seconds of longitude and latitude:
      Lower left                    ( -119 58 20   23 35 02 )
      Upper left                    ( -128 31 48   48 24 11 )
      Upper right                   ( -65 23 41    46 42 18 )
      Lower right                   ( -75 24 59    22 28 46 )
________________________________________________________________
Each daily observation for the 1995 growing season is registered to the base
image using image-to-image correlation.  To improve overall registration
accuracy, 150 samples are eliminated from each edge of the raw data image.
The 150 samples represent the most extreme off-nadir pixels and are often the
source of error in the image correlation process.  Then, the channel 2 data
for each daily observation are transformed using the satellite orbit model.
Next, correlation of the original image to the reference image is performed
using a set of 255 selected ground control points.  If most of the ground
control points are cloud covered in the daily observation, no correlation is
defined and the image is rejected.  Otherwise, the correlation is determined
and the satellite transformation coefficients from the orbital model are
revised.  Then the raw data (channels 1 - 5), NDVI, and satellite geometry
data are transformed using the revised coefficients and nearest neighbor
resampling. 

Compositing
The method for determining the portion of each overpass to be included in the
composite image was to retain pixels having the highest NDVI values.  The NDVI
was examined pixel by pixel for each overpass within the biweekly compositing
period to determine the maximum value.

The retention of the highest NDVI value reduces the number of
cloud-contaminated pixels because values for clouds and cloud shadows are
generally less than 100 (in the byte-scaled data) and clear day observations
of vegetated surfaces are equal to or greater than 100 (in the byte-scaled
data).  The result is a near cloud-free image that depicts the maximum
vegetative greenness for the compositing period.  No data are selected from
the portion of an observation where the solar zenith angle is greater than
eighty degrees.  Angles greater than eighty degrees portray a view of the
terminator or of darkness and can provide erroneous data.  This circumstance
will only occur in extreme northern latitudes in the winter.

The product of the compositing process was a 10-band image that included the
maximum NDVI value for each pixel during the composite period, the channels
1-5 and satellite viewing geometry data from the chosen daily observations,
and a pointer value that identified the satellite overpass from which that
pixel was taken.  Table 2 lists the data included in each of the 10 bands.

Table 3. Band description of composite images 
__________________________________________________________________
   Band      Description          |    Band       Description
__________________________________________________________________

    1        AVHRR channel 1      |      6        NDVI
    2        AVHRR channel 2      |      7        Satellite zenith
    3        AVHRR channel 3      |      8        Solar zenith
    4        AVHRR channel 4      |      9        Relative azimuth
    5        AVHRR channel 5      |     10        Date
__________________________________________________________________

The date of acquisition pointer is provided to allow a user to identify the
specific AVHRR daily observation (satellite scene number) used for each pixel.
To determine the date and scene number, first identify the date pointer value
for the pixel within a composite period, then use the reference table in file
DATE.ATT to determine the scene number. 

Miscellaneous Data
When displaying large areas with AVHRR data, an overlay or mask of familiar
linework, such as county boundaries, can be used as a location aid.  Several
images are included in the \MISC directory to provide location information.
All of the linework images represent lines in raster format as 1-km cells.
These data sets include climatic division boundaries (CDLINES), major land
resource areas boundaries (LRALINES), county boundaries (CTYLINES), and water
bodies (WATERMSK).  The climatic division lines were digitized from NOAA base
maps.  The county lines are a modified version of the 1:2,000,000-scale DLG
data.  The major land resource area boundaries were digitized from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service (1981) maps.

The linework in the CDLINES and LRALINES images is coded at the byte value
255.  In the CTYLINES image, the county boundaries identified by the coasts
and international borders are at value 253, the county borders that are
coincident with State borders are at value 254, and other county boundaries
are at value 255.  This variable coding provides the capability to display
coastal, State, or county boundaries from the same image.  The water bodies
image has two unique identifiers.  Water has a 0 value and land has a value   
of 1.

Also included are three raster polygon images that can be used in an overlay
process where histograms or descriptive statistics could be computed for the
NDVI values within a polygon.  These images include counties (CTYPOLY), major
land resource areas (LRAPOLY), and climatic divisions (CDPOLY). 

Each polygon is in raster format and has a unique numeric identifier.  Images
that include more than 256 unique polygons are stored in I*2 integer (16 bit)
format. 

The attribute information that identifies or characterizes each polygon is
included under the \MISC directory.  The attributes for the major land
resource area polygons are in LRAPOLY.ATT.  The fields in the file are

     polyid -- the unique polygon identification number
       mlra -- the major land resource area (MLRA) identification code used by
               the Soil Conservation Service
    lratext -- text description of the MLRA used by the Soil Conservation
               Service

The unique polygon identification number for the climatic division polygons
can be parsed into the State and climatic division number within that State.
For example, climatic district one in Arizona is polygon number 401.  The 4 is
the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State identification number
for Arizona, and the 01 identifies the polygon as division one.  Climatic
district one in Oklahoma is polygon number 4001, where 40 is the FIPS State
code and 01 is division one.


The attributes for the county polygons are in CTYPOLY.ATT.  The fields in the
file are

     cntyid -- the unique polygon identification number
    npixels -- the number of pixels in each county
       FIPS -- the FIPS State and county code for each county
      cname -- the county name
      sname -- the State name

One of the standard products calculated from the conterminous U.S. AVHRR data
set is a statistical summary of the NDVI, by county, for each composite
period.  The statistical summaries for all 1995 compositing periods are
available on the seventh disc.  The statistical summary can be imported to a
spreadsheet and a graph can be created to show seasonal NDVI profiles.  The
statistical summary is linked to the CTYPOLY image by the key attribute CNTYID
that is included in the CTYPOLY.ATT.  This summary can be merged with the
CTYPOLY image for representation in image form.

The statistical summary for each composite period is stored in separate tables
with a standard naming convention (CNTYP01.DAT is the table for period 1,
CNTYP02.DAT for period 2, and so on).  These tables are 80-character ASCII
files with the following attributes and format:

___________________________________________________________________________
  Col #     Fortran stmt.    Description          Definition             
___________________________________________________________________________
  1- 4     i4                 CNTYID          Unique identifier for
                                              each county polygon
  5-10     1x,i5              FIPS            FIPS code
 11-18     1x,f7.2            MEAN            Mean NDVI (with clouds,
                                              water, negative NDVI not
                                              counted)
 19-22     1x,i3              %USED           The portion of all pixels
                                              in county which are counted.
 23-30     1x,f7.3            SD              Standard deviation  
 31-34     1x,i3              MIN             Minimum value in county
 35-38     1x,i3              MAX             Maximum value in county
 39-46     1x,f7.2            MEDIAN          Median value
 47-50     1x,i3              MODE            Mode value
 51-54     1x,i3              PERIOD #        Composite period number
___________________________________________________________________________

The NDVI statistics are calculated for each county after clouded pixels, water
bodies, and negative NDVI values (the 0 - 100 range of the scaled NDVI) are
masked out.  The cloud screening is done independently (and is not applied to
image data on the CD-ROM) by using a threshold value of 240 for the sum of
channels 1 and 2 (values greater than 240 are considered clouds).  The cloud-
screening technique includes an added indicator, the attribute %USED.  The
attribute %USED represents the proportion of the pixels in a county (excluding
water bodies) that were counted in the computation.  A low value in this
attribute can indicate cloud contamination.

Added to the miscellaneous image file was the surface water bodies mask.
These water bodies were separated using channel 2 from daily AVHRR scenes.
Cloud-free scenes were selected through a visual quality assessment of the
images.  After a threshold between land and water values was identified, a
binary mask was computed and the water bodies data was added to a land
characteristic data base.  Approximately 50 AVHRR scenes were used to create
the mask.  Unique numeric identifiers were used in the raster formatted
polygons - water has the value of 0 and land has the value of 1.

Table 4.  A list of miscellaneous image file characteristics
  __________________________________________________________
          Name               Type  Bands   Lines   Samples           
  __________________________________________________________
          LRAPOLY             I*2    1     2,889   4,587  
          LRALINES            Byte   1     2,889   4,587
          CDPOLY              I*2    1     2,889   4,587
          CDLINES             Byte   1     2,889   4,587  
          CTYPOLY             I*2    1     2,889   4,587 
          CTYLINES            Byte   1     2,889   4,587
          WATERMSK            Byte   1     2,889   4,587  
  __________________________________________________________


                              CD-ROM ORGANIZATION

A large volume of data was generated during the construction of this data
base.  The data stored on each CD-ROM required ten 6,250-bpi magnetic tapes.
The data are organized in a directory structure that logically separates the
data components.  This structure is:

     README.1ST
     \AVHRR
          README    \LABELS   \IMAGES
     \NDVI
          README    \LABELS   \IMAGES
     \GEOM
          README    \LABELS   \IMAGES
     \MISC
          README    \LABELS   \IMAGES
     \DEMO
          README
     \SOFTWARE
          README

Each directory on the disc contains data that are similar in type.  Each
directory also contains an ASCII text file (README) that details the contents
of the directory. 

The data files and LAS header files (files with name extensions .DDR) are in
the \IMAGES subdirectories, and the image label files are in the \LABELS
subdirectories.  To get a quick start looking at the image files, label files
for each image are included in the \LABELS directory using the same file name
as the image file it describes in the \IMAGES subdirectory.  These label files
were designed for use by the public domain MS-DOS personal computer IMDISP
image display software developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, California.  IMDISP users can access the images on this CD-ROM by
selecting the image name in the \LABELS subdirectory, which automatically
accesses the header information required by the software to retrieve the image
data.  The data dimensions of each band are 2,889 lines and 4,587 samples (13
megabytes).

The \AVHRR directory contains the five channels of AVHRR data associated with
the four biweekly composites on each CD-ROM.  Each band of each biweekly
composite file is uniquely named using the convention
           P01CH1.IMG
where P01 identifies composite period 1 and CH1 identifies the image as
channel 1.  The daily observations on the seventh disc are named using the
same convention, with D01 referring to the first daily observation.  The image
files are stored in the \IMAGES subdirectory. 

The \NDVI directory contains the single band computed NDVI for the biweekly
AVHRR composite data sets and is named using the convention:
           P01NDVI.IMG
where P01 identifies composite period 1 and NDVI identifies the image as a
vegetation index image.  The seventh disc contains a December 2-week composite
period P25NDVI and some daily observation scenes.  The image files are stored
in the \IMAGES subdirectory.

The \GEOM directory contains the satellite and solar zenith and relative
azimuth information for each pixel in the AVHRR composite images.  This
directory also contains the date images for each of the composites, as well as
the DATE.ATT attribute file.

The \MISC directory contains the political (CTYLINES, CTYPOLY), climatic
divisions (CDLINES, CDPOLY), and land resource area (LRALINES, LRAPOLY) raster
line and polygon images, which are useful for display or in digital analysis
procedures.  Attribute files related to these are included as files
CTYPOLY.ATT and LRAPOLY.ATT.

The \DEMO directory contains a batch job that runs under DOS and uses the
display program, IMDISP.  This program displays images from the 1990
Conterminous U.S.  AVHRR Biweekly Composites set.  The display files are
compressed samples of these images.  To initiate the demo program, enter
"DEMO" at the DOS prompt. 

The \SOFTWARE directory contains programs to allow the PC-DOS user to display
and interact with the digital images on the CD's.  These public domain
programs include

IMDISP   -  An image display program developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion
            Laboratory.  The most recent version is included on this disc.  See
            the IMDISP documentation file IMDISP.DOC, located in the \SOFTWARE
            directory, and use the IMDISP help command for further details.

CONVERT  -  A conversion program included with IMDISP that allows the
            conversion of a raster image to integer, byte, nibble, or binary
            format.

COPIM    -  A copy program that allows copying all or portions of a raster
            image and puts IMDISP compatible label records at the front of the
            image.

COMBINE  -  A utility for combining two or more images as a single new image.
            This utility has options to:

         1. Combine up to three separate images into a single new
            black-and-white image and also create a customized color
            palette of up to 255 colors that, along with the new combined
            image, allows a color simulation of a 3-band false color
            composite image suitable for display on an 8-bit PC color
            monitor; these colors are a very close approximation of how the
            image would appear on a 24-bit color display.

         2. Automatically "stretch" or brighten an existing palette.

         3. Embed one image (such as raster
            linework) within a second image. 

         The resultant images and palettes created by
         the COMBINE utility are compatible with the
         IMDISP display program.  It takes approximately
         4 minutes to process a 512 lines by 512
         samples, 3-image false color composite when the
         input and output images are on hard disk.  To
         run this utility type COMBINE and respond to
         the prompts requesting the input image names,
         output image name, and output palette name.

LL2LAM   -  Converts latitude and longitude coordinates to Lambert Azimuthal
            Equal Area projection coordinates.

LAM2LL   -  Converts Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection coordinates to
            latitude and longitude coordinates. 

LL2LS    -  Converts latitude and longitude to line and sample coordinates in
            the Conterminous U.S.  AVHRR data set.  This data set is in the
            Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection. 

LS2LL    - Converts line and sample coordinates in the Conterminous U.S.      
           AVHRR data set to latitude and longitude. 

There are no restrictions on making copies of IMDISP or any of the other
public domain programs for use on other PC's or with other raster images.

* NOTE:  Prior to displaying any of the following images with IMDISP, the
         command "SET SWAP" must be run to reset the display for 16-bit
         integer data.  This command must be run after the image has been
         selected with the IMDISP "FILES" command. 

                     CTYPOLY.LBL - County polygon data               
                     CDPOLY.LBL  - Climatic polygon data            
                     LRAPOLY.LBL - LRA polygon data                 
                     DEM.LBL     - Digital elevation data           

For more information please contact Customer Services, EROS Data Center, U.S.
Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, (605)594-6151, FAX (605)594-6589. 

 

                           REFERENCES

Ailts, B., Akkerman, D., Quirk, B., and Steinwand, D., 1990, LAS 5.0 -- an
      image processing system for research and production environments:
      American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing-American Congress
      on Surveying and Mapping Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado,
      March 18-23, 1990, Proceedings, v. 4, p. 1-12.

Eidenshink, J.C., 1992, The 1990 conterminous U.S. AVHRR data set:           
      Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol. 58, no. 6,
      pp. 809-813.

Holben, B.N., 1986, Characteristics of maximum-value composite images from
      temporal AVHRR data: The International Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 7,
      no. 11, p. 1417.

Holben, B.N., Kaufman, Y.J., and Kendall, J.D., 1990, NOAA-11 AVHRR visible
      and near-IR in-flight calibration: The International Journal of Remote
      Sensing, v. 11, no. 8, p. 1511.

Kidwell, K.B., 1991, NOAA Polar Orbiter Data Users' Guide: National Oceanic
      and Atmospheric Administration, World Weather Building, Room 100,
      Washington, D.C.

Price, John C., 1987, Calibration of satellite radiometers and the comparison
      of vegetation indices:  Remote Sensing of the Environment, v. 21, no.
      15, pp. 15-27.

Rao, Nagaraja C. R., 1987, Pre-launch calibration of channels 1 and 2 of
      Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer:  NOAA Technical Report NESDIS
      36, Satellite Research Laboratory, National Environmental Satellite,
      Data, and Information Service, Washington, D.C., 62 p.

Teillet, P.M. and Holben, B.N., 1994, Towards Operational Radiometric      
      Calibration of NOAA AVHRR Imagery in the Visible and Near-Infrared            
      Channels, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, v. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-10.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1981, Land resource
      regions and major land resource areas of the United States: Agricultural
      Handbook 296, 156 p.



                               Acknowledgments

A number of individuals contributed to the successful completion of the AVHRR
Conterminous U.S. composite data, including various operations staff and
digital data production scientists.  Jesslyn F. Brown and Richard A. McKinney
provided excellent technical reviews. 



                                  Jeffery C. Eidenshink

                                  Mary C. Weinheimer

                                  Michael E. Madigan


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VIII. APPENDIX II - Pixel Date Attribute Table


PERIOD  INDEX        SCENEID        Date       GMT
------  -----    ----------------  -------   --------
    1       1    ah14012095191800  01-20-95  19:18:00
            2    ah14012095210124  01-20-95  21:01:24
            3    ah14012195190713  01-21-95  19:07:13
            4    ah14012195204957  01-21-95  20:49:57
            5    ah14012395184557  01-23-95  18:45:57
            6    ah14012395202736  01-23-95  20:27:36
            7    ah14012495183529  01-24-95  18:35:29
            8    ah14012495201628  01-24-95  20:16:28
            9    ah14012595182501  01-25-95  18:25:01
           10    ah14012595200519  01-25-95  20:05:19
           11    ah14012695181435  01-26-95  18:14:35
           12    ah14012695195428  01-26-95  19:54:28
          101    ah14012795180409  01-27-95  18:04:09
          102    ah14012795194323  01-27-95  19:43:23
          103    ah14012795212842  01-27-95  21:28:42
          104    ah14012895175345  01-28-95  17:53:45
          105    ah14012895193234  01-28-95  19:32:34
          106    ah14012995174337  01-29-95  17:43:37
          107    ah14012995192145  01-29-95  19:21:45
          108    ah14012995210528  01-29-95  21:05:28
          109    ah14013095173315  01-30-95  17:33:15
          110    ah14013095191058  01-30-95  19:10:58
          111    ah14013095205400  01-30-95  20:54:00
          112    ah14013195190027  01-31-95  19:00:27
          113    ah14013195204234  01-31-95  20:42:34
          114    ah14020195184941  02-01-95  18:49:41
          115    ah14020195203124  02-01-95  20:31:24
          116    ah14020295183912  02-02-95  18:39:12
          117    ah14020295202015  02-02-95  20:20:15
    2       1    ah14020395182844  02-03-95  18:28:44
            2    ah14020395200907  02-03-95  20:09:07
            3    ah14020495195815  02-04-95  19:58:15
            4    ah14020595180752  02-05-95  18:07:52
            5    ah14020595194709  02-05-95  19:47:09
            6    ah14020595213246  02-05-95  21:32:46
            7    ah14020695175727  02-06-95  17:57:27
            8    ah14020695193619  02-06-95  19:36:19
            9    ah14020695212101  02-06-95  21:21:01
           10    ah14020795174704  02-07-95  17:47:04
           11    ah14020795192531  02-07-95  19:25:31
           12    ah14020795210931  02-07-95  21:09:31
           13    ah14020895173657  02-08-95  17:36:57
           14    ah14020895191443  02-08-95  19:14:43
           15    ah14020895205803  02-08-95  20:58:03
           16    ah14020995190356  02-09-95  19:03:56
           17    ah14020995204637  02-09-95  20:46:37
          101    ah14021095185321  02-10-95  18:53:21
          102    ah14021095203521  02-10-95  20:35:21
          103    ah14021195184251  02-11-95  18:42:51
          104    ah14021195202356  02-11-95  20:23:56
          105    ah14021295183207  02-12-95  18:32:07
          106    ah14021295201303  02-12-95  20:13:03
          107    ah14021395182140  02-13-95  18:21:40
          108    ah14021395200155  02-13-95  20:01:55
          109    ah14021495181113  02-14-95  18:11:13
          110    ah14021495195048  02-14-95  19:50:48
          111    ah14021495213644  02-14-95  21:36:44
          112    ah14021595193959  02-15-95  19:39:59
          113    ah14021595212458  02-15-95  21:24:58
          114    ah14021695175039  02-16-95  17:50:39
          115    ah14021695192909  02-16-95  19:29:09
          116    ah14021695211313  02-16-95  21:13:13
    3       1    ah14021795191821  02-17-95  19:18:21
            2    ah14021795210145  02-17-95  21:01:45
            3    ah14021895173009  02-18-95  17:30:09
            4    ah14021895205017  02-18-95  20:50:17
            5    ah14021995185702  02-19-95  18:57:02
            6    ah14021995203905  02-19-95  20:39:05
            7    ah14022095184616  02-20-95  18:46:16
            8    ah14022095202755  02-20-95  20:27:55
            9    ah14022195183547  02-21-95  18:35:47
           10    ah14022195201646  02-21-95  20:16:46
           11    ah14022295182519  02-22-95  18:25:19
           12    ah14022295200538  02-22-95  20:05:38
           13    ah14022395181452  02-23-95  18:14:52
           14    ah14022395195446  02-23-95  19:54:46
           15    ah14022395214100  02-23-95  21:41:00
          101    ah14022495180426  02-24-95  18:04:26
          102    ah14022495194340  02-24-95  19:43:40
          103    ah14022495212858  02-24-95  21:28:58
          104    ah14022595175402  02-25-95  17:54:02
          105    ah14022595193250  02-25-95  19:32:50
          106    ah14022595211713  02-25-95  21:17:13
          107    ah14022695174353  02-26-95  17:43:53
          108    ah14022695192201  02-26-95  19:22:01
          109    ah14022695210544  02-26-95  21:05:44
          110    ah14022895204249  02-28-95  20:42:49
          112    ah14030195203137  03-01-95  20:31:37
          113    ah14030295183925  03-02-95  18:39:25
          114    ah14030295202027  03-02-95  20:20:27
    4       1    ah14030395182857  03-03-95  18:28:57
            2    ah14030395200918  03-03-95  20:09:18
            3    ah14030495181829  03-04-95  18:18:29
            4    ah14030495195826  03-04-95  19:58:26
            5    ah14030595180803  03-05-95  18:08:03
            6    ah14030595194720  03-05-95  19:47:20
            7    ah14030595213256  03-05-95  21:32:56
            8    ah14030695212110  03-06-95  21:21:10
            9    ah14030795192540  03-07-95  19:25:40
           10    ah14030795210925  03-07-95  21:09:25
           11    ah14030895191452  03-08-95  19:14:52
           12    ah14030895205812  03-08-95  20:58:12
           13    ah14030995172659  03-09-95  17:26:59
           14    ah14030995190419  03-09-95  19:04:19
           15    ah14030995204644  03-09-95  20:46:44
          101    ah14031095171654  03-10-95  17:16:54
          102    ah14031095185333  03-10-95  18:53:33
          103    ah14031095203533  03-10-95  20:35:33
          104    ah14031195184302  03-11-95  18:43:02
          105    ah14031195202407  03-11-95  20:24:07
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IX.   APPENDIX III - USGS EDC Thermal Bands (3,4,5) Correction Procedures

**** from file avhrrfix.txt *********

NOAA-14 AVHRR Thermal Calibration Post-Process Fix

I.  Background

In May 1997, it was discovered that the non-linear radiance corrections for
NOAA-14 AVHRR channels 4 and 5, and the linear radiance correction for
channel 3 were being incorrectly applied in the AVHRR Data Acquisition
and Processing System (ADAPS), the processing system at the USGS EROS Data
Center. Channels 3, 4, and 5 of the dataset contained on this CD have post-
processing corrections applied to them. The following documentation gives
a detailed explanation of this correction.


II.  The Source of the Problem

The Mercury-Cadmium-Telluride (HgCdTe) detectors of bands 4 and 5 display
a noted non-linear response to incident radiance.  Prior to NOAA-14, a
non-linearity correction was applied as adjustments to temperature via an
interpolation table.  Starting with NOAA-14, however, the corrections were
to be applied as a second order polynomial function of the "linear" radiance
determined from the two-point, on-board calibration.  In a similar fashion,
a linear correction is applied to the Indium-Antimony (InSb) detector of
band 3.  In updating the ADAPS source code for processing NOAA-14 data,
the polynomial was being applied to temperature rather than to radiance.

The AVHRR uses two targets, an internal blackbody and space, to generate a
calibration slope (gain) and intercept (offset) (see Kidwell, 1995).  These
are then applied to the sensor counts of the ground target to estimate the
"linear" radiance,


      Rlin = G*C + I                                                  (1)


where G and I are the gain and offset determined from the on-board
calibration, C is the 10-bit (0-1023) instrument measured counts, and Rlin
is the linear estimation of radiance (mW/m2-sr-cm-1).

This radiance is then converted to a brightness temperature using the inverse
of the Planck equation with the central wavenumber of the appropriate band
and temperature range.


                     C2*cwn
      Tlin = ------------------                                       (2)
                       C1*cwn^3
               ln( 1 + -------- )
                         Rlin


Where C1 and C2 are the first and second Planck constants (1.1910659e-5
mW/m^2-sr-cm^-4 and 1.438833cm-K, respectively),  cwn is the central
wavenumber (cm-1) and Tlin is the resultant "linear" temperature (K).

The values for central wavenumber for each band and temperature range
are given in Table 2.  The standard products generated by ADAPS use
the third range (270-310K).


+--------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| Temperature  |  Channel 3  |  Channel 4  |  Channel 5  |
|  Range (K)   |   (cm^-1)   |   (cm^-1)   |   (cm^-1)   |
+==============+=============+=============+=============+
| 190 - 230    |   2638.652  |   928.2603  |   834.4496  |
| 230 - 270    |   2642.807  |   928.8284  |   834.8066  |
| 270 - 310    |   2645.899  |   929.3323  |   835.1647  |
| 290 - 330    |   2647.169  |   929.5878  |   835.3740  |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
Table 2 - NOAA-14 central wave numbers for AVHRR IR channels
          (from Kidwell, 1995)



From here, prior to NOAA-14 a correction would be interpolated from a
look-up table so the brightness temperatures would be calculated as


      T = Tlin + Tcorrection                                          (3)


In the case of NOAA-14, however, the non-linear correction is applied as
a quadratic function of radiance:


        R = A*Rlin  + B*Rlin^2 + C                                      (4)


where A, B and C are coefficients defined for each of bands 3, 4 and 5
(see Table 2).  (Note: coefficient, B, for band 3 is zero making it a
linear correction).  In ADAPS, the coefficients in Eqn. 4 were being
applied to Tlin rather than Rlin.


        T = A*Tlin  + B*Tlin^2 + C                                      (5)



+---------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| Radiance Correction |  Channel 3  |  Channel 4  |  Channel 5  |
+=====================+=============+=============+=============+
|    Coefficient A    |   1.00359   |   0.92378   |   0.96194   |
|    Coefficient B    |      0      |  0.0003822  |  0.0001742  |
|    Coefficient C    |   -0.0031   |    3.72     |    2.00     |
+---------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
Table 3 - Radiance correction coefficients for NOAA-14 AVHRR
          IR channels (from Kidwell, 1995)



III.  Post-process Correction

A method has been developed to remove this error and to re-apply them
correctly.  Unfortunately, the method cannot retrieve the full range of
possible values .  In the misapplication of the radiance corrections, it
is possible that some resulting values of brightness temperature erroneously
exceed the minimum or maximum value for the given processing scheme.  When a
temperature is found to exceed either end of the range, it is clipped to the
minimum or maximum.  For products processed using byte scaling, such as the
conterminous U.S. data set the allowable temperature range is 203-330K
(byte range, 1-255), whereas for the Global 1km data sets, the range is
160-340K (two-byte integer range, 10-1018).  Table 1 shows the temperature
and corresponding data value at which clipping will occur for each band
and processing scheme. 

It should be noted that the clipping in the low end of band three,
particularly in the global data, is not as severe as would appear from the
numbers in Table 1.  Due to the coefficients applied for the radiance
correction in that band, radiances which correspond to temperatures below
210.5K get "corrected" to negative values which are not physically possible. 
The correction polynomial sacrifices the extreme low end in order to better
fit the detector response at "normal" ground target temperatures.  Therefore,
even though the values are being clipped, it is not possible to determine
brightness temperatures lower than 210.5K in band 3 anyway.



+---------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
|         |     Min/Max    |  Band 3 Clip   |  Band 4 Clip   |  Band 5 Clip   |
| Scaling | Temperature, K | Temperature, K | Temperature, K | Temperature, K |
|         |  (Data Value)  |  (Data Value)  |  (Data Value)  |  (Data Value)  |
+=========+================+================+================+================+
|   US    |      203.0     |      216.0     |      206.0     |      204.0     |
| (byte)  |       (1)      |       (27)     |       (7)      |       (3)      |
+---------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
|         |      330.0     |      329.0     |      313.0     |      322.5     |
|         |      (255)     |      (253)     |      (221)     |      (240)     |
+---------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
| Global  |      160.0     |      211.2     |      180.0     |      168.7     |
| (i*2)   |       (10)     |      (297)     |      (122)     |      (59)      |
+---------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
|         |      340.0     |      338.9     |      321.7     |      331.9     |
|         |     (1018)     |     (1012)     |      (916)     |      (973)     |
+---------+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
Table 1 - Temperature clipping values for NOAA-14 AVHRR Thermal Bands


To make the correction, the first step is to recover the "linear"
temperature by solving Eqn. 5 for Tlin.  For bands 4 and 5 this means
solving the quadratic equation for the positive root.


                -A + sqrt(A^2 - 4B(C-T))
      Tlin = -------------------------                                (6)
                         2B


or for band 3 simply solving


                T - C
      Tlin = -------                                                  (7)
                  A


Next, restore the "linear" radiance via Planck's equation


                     C1*cwn^3
      Rlin = --------------------                                     (8)
                     C2*cwn
               exp( -------- ) - 1
                      Tlin


At this point, the radiance correction polynomial of Eqn. 4 is applied
followed by the inverse of the Planck equation (Eqn. 2) to determine a
brightness temperature.  For further description of the thermal calibration
procedure for AVHRR, see Kidwell (1995).



IV.  Post Process Correction Look-Up Tables

Included in this documentation are two files containing look-up tables which
can be used to apply the corrections outlined above.  The files, us.lut (byte)
and global.lut (two-byte), consist of four columns.  The first column lists
all the data values in the valid scaled range (see Table 4) for each data
type.  Columns 2 through 4 list the corresponding corrected data values for
AVHRR channels 3 through 5 respectively.  As an example, the following segment
has been extracted from the us.lut table:

     ---------------

     130 127 112 122
     131 128 113 123
     132 129 114 124
     133 130 115 125
     134 131 116 126
     135 132 117 127
     136 133 117 128
     137 134 118 129
     138 135 119 130
     139 137 120 131
     140 138 121 131
 
     ---------------

So for example, to correct a data value of 136 in a byte image, one would
replace it with 133 in channel 3, 117 in channel 4 and 128 in channel 5. 

In the US byte scaled products, a data value of zero should map to zero.  In
the Global 1km products, bits zero through 9 are reserved for masks, etc. and
therefore no correction is necessary for these values (ie, they should be
left as is, 0-9).


V.  Effect of the Error on Data

Included in this documentation are two PostScript files showing plots
which give examples of both the error due to an improperly calibrated image,
as well as the amount of data loss which can be expected.  In the PostScript
files, global.ps and us.ps you will find plots for each of the three
affected bands for Global and US scaling respectively.  Each plot shows
lines for "Incorrect", "Fixed" and "Correct" processing schemes. 
"Incorrect" refers to data which has been processed with the misapplication
of the radiance correction as described above.  "Fixed" refers to data
which has had the post process correction look-up tables applied, and
"Correct" refers to data which has had the radiance corrections applied
properly from the outset.  The data for the plots were generated from
an arbitrary set of on-board calibrations; your results may vary
slightly.

There are a couple points to notice.  First, the most significant errors
and clipping occur in channel 4 at high temperatures.  It is suspected
that the reason the error has gone so long without being noticed is that
the primary use for thermal data processed by ADAPS might be in cloud
detection.  The error is less significant at typical cloud brightness
temperatures and therefore has less of an impact for cloud temperatures
than for land or sea surface temperatures.

Also, aside from the clipping, notice that the "Fixed" data tracks
right with the "Correct" data.  The only deviations are occasional
one-data value rounding errors.  This means that for most applications,
"Fixed" data are as good as "Correct" data.

To determine whether the data can be fixed using look-up tables or
whether it needs to be reprocessed entirely, it will be useful to check
how much of the data lies at the minimum or maximum data value



VI.  Conversion Between Data Value and Physical Units

All of the equations above (with the exception of Eqn. 1) operate entirely
on physical units rather than data values.  The following equations are
used to convert between scaled (data value) and actual (physical value)
units.


      scaled = actual*scale + offset                                  (9)    

        actual = (scaled - offset)/scale                               (10)


where scale and offset are the values listed in Table 4 for each processing
scheme.

+-------------------+----------+----------+-----------------+-----------------+
| Data Type         |   Scale  |  Offset  |   Actual Range  |   Scaled Range  |
+===================+==========+==========+=================+=================+
| US (byte)         |    2.0   |  -405.0  |     203-330     |      1-255      |
| Global 1km (i*2)  |   5.602  |  -886.32 |     160-340     |     10-1018     |
+-------------------+----------+----------+-----------------+-----------------+
Table 4 - Conversion scale and offset coefficients for conversion between
          actual and scaled data



VII.  References

For a more thorough description of AVHRR calibration procedures see:

Kidwell, K.B., NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, National Oceanic
  and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C., July 1995,
  (http://www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/POD)

NOAA Technical Memorandum NESS 107, Appendix B: NOAA-XX coefficients


**** Correction LookUp-Table from file us.lut *********

       1   1   7   3
       2   1   8   4
       3   1   9   5
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       5   1  10   7
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