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Rescue & Reprocessing of Historical AVHRR Archives (R2HA2-WG) Working Group

This working group is Chaired by Peter Cornillon (pcornillon@gmail.com).  The terms of reference for the group are:

 

The objectives of the Working Group is to:

 

  • Identify historical archives of AVHRR HRPT and LAC data,  
  • Copy these archives to a central data repository, 
  • Convert the data to a consistent L1x data format, and -Reprocess these data to L2P.

 

In order to accomplish this, the Working Group shall

 

  • Identify historical archives of AVHRR HRPT and LAC data
  • Regional Data Providers (RDPs), -Identify a central assembly center(s) (CAC),
  • Define a format in which the data the are to be stored,
  • Define if/how contributions are to be stitched together - to be done at the CAC,
  • Identify where  the reprocessing is to be performed, and -Define the SST algorithm to be used to reprocess.

 

The Membership is Open  

 

(Last Updated: 07-07-2010)