AVHRR Raw Data from the Darwin Satellite Reception Facility, 1992 -

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

Raw data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors on NOAA polar orbiting satellites, received at the Met Bureau's Darwin Satellite Reception Facility. These data are used later for computation of parameters such as sea surface temperature (SST). The data start from August 1992. The dataset contains approx. 4600 satellite passes as at Oct. 1998. The data are stored on Exabyte tapes in Hobart.

Files and APIs

Additional Info

Field Value
Title AVHRR Raw Data from the Darwin Satellite Reception Facility, 1992 -
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/51f7b3a7-11b6-4dbc-b54f-a5ac44cb6f91
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
marine-remote-sensing@csiro.au
Reference Period 09/08/1992
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        90.0,
        -40.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        -40.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        20.0
      ],
      [
        90.0,
        20.0
      ],
      [
        90.0,
        -40.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "AVHRR Raw Data from the Darwin Satellite Reception Facility, 1992 -". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/avhrr-raw-data-from-the-darwin-satellite-reception-facility-1992