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AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer)

Flown onboard NOAA-6,7,8,9,10,11,12, and 14.

Applications: global and regional scale land cover/land use and environmental monitoring; meteorology and climatology.

AVHRR collects data in the visible, near infrared and thermal infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum and has a pixel size of 1.1 km.

More information: http://eosims.cr.usgs.gov:5725/DATASET_DOCS/avhrr_dataset.html

An example of a composite compiled from AVHRR imagery.

 

An example of a composite compiled from AVHRR imagery. (source: http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/1KM/1kmhomepage.html)

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