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Sea Ice Atlas from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery 1992-1999
This Atlas presents a compilation of AVHRR satellite images of sea ice adjacent to the coast of Eastern Antarctica. It is produced primarily for use by marine and vertebrate ecologists within the Australian Antarctic Division and as a contribution to the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program. It is anticipated that this atlas will have value to a wider range of research and other uses including shipping operations.
The Atlas provides one good image for each month between 1992 and 1999 for each of 5 regions of Eastern Antarctica centered on the following Antarctic Stations.
Mawson station (M) - latitude 67 degrees 36.3 minutes S, longitude 62 degrees 52.2 minutes E
Davis station (D) - latitude 68 degrees 34.6 minutes S, longitude 77 degrees 58.3 minutes E
Casey station (C) - latitude 66 degrees 17.0 minutes S, longitude 110 degrees 31.2 minutes E
Dumont D'Urville station (DD) - latitude 66 degrees 39.8 minutes S, longitude 140 degrees 00.1 minutes E
Terra Nova Bay station (TN) - latitude 74 degrees 41.7 minutes S, longitude 164 degrees 07.0 minutes E
Each image has been renavigated onto the same projection (Polar stereographic), gridded and a coastline added. Visible and thermal images are provided for the austral summer months, while only a thermal image is provided for the dark winter months. Due to either missing data or the lack of suitable imagery it has not been possible to provide a complete coverage over the period in all regions. Those 500 images presented were culled from some 20,000 images consulted.
Images are presented with a schematic map indicating the major divisions of the image into open water, sea ice, cloud, land etc. Each month is accompanied by a short description of the sea ice conditions.
The concept of a Sea Ice Atlas for scientific purposes was first proposed in 1999 and funded by the Australian Antarctic Division on the recommendation of the ANARE Mapping and Geographic Information Committee in 1999. Dr Kelvin Michael at IASOS was contracted to supervise the project and produce the Sea Ice Atlas in both hard copy and digital format.
The AVHRR data are down loaded at the HRPT receiving facility Australian Antarctic Station of Casey. The HRPT archive is kept at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC at the University of Tasmania.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- Sea Ice Atlas from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery 1992-1999 Kerry, K.R. and Brolsma, H.A. (Eds).
- Date (Publication)
- 2003-12-18
- Edition
- 2
- Citation identifier
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Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.26179/0gw3-d267
Originator
Publisher
Editor
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 1
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1992-04-01 1999-12-31
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EDGES
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > PACK ICE
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > POLYNYAS
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE
- Keywords
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- AVHRR
- CASEY
- DAVIS
- ANTARCTICA EAST
- DUMONT D?URVILLE
- LONGITUDE
- LATITUDE
- REMOTE SENSING
- POLAR REMOTE SENSING
- SEA ICE
- SATELLITE IMAGES
- MAWSON
- TERRA NOVA BAY
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11
- NOAA-12 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12
- NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14
- NOAA-15 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-15
- SATELLITES
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- ACE/CRC
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- The sea ice atlas is available as two bound volumes from the AAD library, or for download via the provided URL. The archive of AVHRR images is available through the internet at the provided URL.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Must be acknowledged with the following reference: Michael K. and Hill K. (2003) Sea ice atlas East Antarctica AVHRR Imagery 1992-1999. Kerry K.R and Brolsma H.A.(Eds). Australian Antarctic Division. Commonwealth of Australia. Vols 1 and 2.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2003-12-18T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- GB
- Transfer size
- 2
- Distribution format
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- png pdf
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
AVHRR images held by Australian Antarctic Data Centre
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA > DIRECT DOWNLOAD
Download the sea ice atlas
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The quality of the images depend on cloud cover, daylight, view angle of satellite etc. See the reference for full details. Each image is renavigated to a single projection (polar stereographic). An interpretation of each image is described and presented as a graphic illustration.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2018-08-17 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2018-08-21 - record updated by Dave Connell after original images were supplied by Alexander Fraser. 2019-03-20 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance. 2022-02-04 - record updated by Dave Connell to add a dataset DOI. 2022-02-07 - record updated by Dave Connell to update the personnel.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/Sea_Ice_Atlas_East_Antarctica
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- aefcfa6b-e146-4d5a-b12a-99c15eed39ae
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2022-02-07T11:35:45
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Sea_Ice_Atlas_East_Antarctica
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2003-12-18T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2022-02-07
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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