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Terms relating to the Earth Observation system Analysis Ready Data Climate Data Record Climate Data Record (CDR) Earth System Data Record EO data products (L0, L1, L2, L3, L4) across agencies and...

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Definition See processing levels. Comments Time ordered telemetry data Extended Application Packets (EAPs) from the Data Handling Node (DHN). The Raw Data set is sent to Satellite Operations (SO)...

Blogs Entry · By campaign editor On Aug 18, 2010 1:32 PM

So the first day of measurements has arrived. Again the participants had the long walk to the measurement site to contend with first before doing any measurements. A brief meeting was held to...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Jan 20, 2020 10:50 AM

Definition detailed description of a measurement according to one or more measurement principles and to a given measurement method, based on a measurement model and including any calculation to...

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Definition A customer subscribes to a service for notifications of data updates.  Comments This service allows users to sign up or subscribe to data update notifications at a particular frequency. ...

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Definition All data concerning (i) design, manufacture, or utilization of atomic weapons; (ii) the production of special nuclear material; or (iii) the use of special nuclear material in the...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 4, 2021 12:20 PM

Definition Data that represent spacecraft orientation and onboard pointing information. Attitude data includes: Attitude sensor data used to determine the pointing of the spacecraft axes,...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 4, 2021 12:24 PM

Definition Data which enhance processing and utilization of remote sensing instrument data. The auxiliary data are not captured by the same data collection process as the instrument data. Auxiliary...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Jan 16, 2020 10:25 AM

Definition Data fusion is a formal framework in which are expressed the means and tools for the alliance of data originating from different sources. It aims at obtaining information of greater...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Jan 23, 2020 2:37 PM

Definition Component of measurement error that in replicate measurements remains constant or varies in a predictable manner NOTE 1 A reference quantity value for a systematic measurement error is...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Nov 23, 2021 10:40 AM

Definition Data Use Monitoring/Administration tools inform data managers of self-service activities of the status and health of the overall archive.  This support is reflected in Cost Intelligence...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 5, 2021 11:27 AM

Definition An automated communications process through which payload data collected by the platform are transmitted, to receiving equipment formonitoring, via the telemetry link. Data stream of...

Wiki Page · By thomas storm On Sep 17, 2009 8:53 AM

It is defined as: "Property of a measurement result relating the result to a stated metrological reference (free definition and not necessarily SI) through an unbroken chain of calibrations of a...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 4, 2021 1:17 PM

Definition The collection of data required to perform calibration of the instrument science data, instrument engineering data, and the spacecraftor platform engineering data. It includes pre-flight...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 4, 2021 6:02 PM

Definition Geophysical parameter data, measured or collected by other means than by the instrument itself, used as correlative or calibration/validation data for that instrument data. It includes...

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Definition Restituted (or operational) orbits are produced (e.g. at ESOC) using the same information and processing as with the Predicted Orbits. In this case, the central day of the three days...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Nov 22, 2021 1:46 PM

Definition An order request for data from tape or disk cache which spans a month or more.  This requires incremental direct download management or copy to alternative devices for delivery to a...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Jan 20, 2020 2:48 PM

Definition Output of an organization that can be produced without any transaction taking place between the organization and the customer The term is used in various Earth observation contexts – and...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Jan 23, 2020 10:42 AM

Definition (1) component of measurement error that in replicate measurements varies in an unpredictable manner NOTE 1 A reference quantity value for a random measurement error is the average that...

Wiki Page · By thomas storm On Nov 27, 2009 4:15 PM

The CE 318 automatic sun tracking photometer has been designed and realized to be a very accurate sun photometer with all the qualities of a field instrument : motorized, portable, autonomous...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Nov 22, 2021 7:21 PM

Definition Beta Products intended to enable users to gain familiarity with the parameters and the data formats.   Provisional Product was defined to facilitate data exploration and process studies...

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Definition It is often important to determine if a set of data is homogeneous before any statistical technique is applied to it. Homogeneous data are drawn from a single population. In other words,...

Wiki Page · By peter a. strobl On Oct 4, 2021 2:38 PM

Definition Scientific or technical measurements, values calculated therefrom, observations, or facts that can be represented by numbers, tables, graphs, models, text, or symbols which are used as a...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Dec 2, 2019 10:27 AM

Top Level Definition Closeness of agreement between a measured quantity value and a true quantity value of a measurand. NOTE 1 The concept ‘measurement accuracy’ is not a quantity and is not given...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 4, 2021 11:40 AM

Definition Data which are not obtained from the sensor itself (usually provided in the science telemetry) and have the primary purpose to serve the processing of instrument data. This can be...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 4, 2021 6:00 PM

Definition The smallest aggregation of data which is independently managed (i. e. described, inventoried, retrievable). Granules may be managed as logical granules and/or physical granules. See...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 4, 2021 1:00 PM

Definition (1)  Subsets of data set other than the directory and metadata that facilitates user selection of specific data having the required characteristics. For example, for image data, browse...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Nov 24, 2021 5:15 PM

Definition The extraction of a multi-dimensional rectangular array of pixels from a single data granule, where consecutive pixels are extracted from each array dimension. For each dimension, the...

Wiki Page · By alessandro burini On Dec 29, 2009 3:36 PM

The Reflectance Based Method is based on the simultaneous measurement, during the satellite sensor overpass, of a well known target (e.g. Salt Lakes or very bright surfaces) with a well...

Wiki Page · By thomas storm On Nov 11, 2009 4:25 PM

The instrument has been designed to be easily and quickly assembled in remote situations, be robust and able to be transported by “estate car”. GRASS has been designed to measure the Earth’s...

Wiki Page · By emma woolliams On Oct 1, 2021 3:20 PM

Terms relating to data stewardship Access Access Collection Access Functinal Entity  Access Software Access Right Information Acquisition Accessibility Acquisition Acquisition Planning Ad-hoc Order...

Blogs Entry · By campaign editor On Aug 15, 2010 6:05 PM

The second day of the laboratory measurements involved the calibration of all the participants radiometers. These are the actual instruments that make the measurements in the field. It is therefore...