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    • GEOS-2 International Optical Beacon Data Input V001 (GEOS2OBSINPUTINTL) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: January 22, 2024

    GEOS2OBSINPUTINTL is the optical beacon system data product which contains reduced raw geodetic optical observations obtained by various international camera systems. These data were used as input to the Quality Control Program to create the product called the International Optical Beacon Pass Summary Data. The optical beacon system, used for geometric geodesy studies, consisted of four xenon flash tubes programmed to flash sequentially, in a series of five or seven flashes. Data are available for the time period from 1968-02-20 to 1968-10-03 in a single file with 1689 data records where each is a line of ASCII text.\n\nThe principal investigator for the Optical Beacon System experiment was R. E. Williston from APL. A previous version of this instrument flew on the first GEOS-1 satellite.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 22, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 22, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    GEOS-1 satellite.

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 22, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 22, 2024
    Publisher 619
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2801697484-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2023-11-07
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-11-07
    Category EOSDIS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation R. E. Williston. 2023-11-09. GEOS2OBSINPUTINTL. Version 001. GEOS-2 International Optical Beacon Data Input V001. Greenbelt, MD, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://doi.org/10.5067/FAUEMZ7O9M5M. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/GEOS2OBSINPUTINTL_001.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator R. E. Williston
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview Description GEOS-1 satellite.
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/GEOS2OBSINPUTINTL_Sample.png
    Harvest Object Id 048c0fc8-3e46-466c-a086-302675e532f9
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/FAUEMZ7O9M5M
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 179.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name GEOS2OBSINPUTINTL
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8cf66a100db605ac7922c3a7b5544b50417a13eb23a3b8aaee92d73bc6d3d365
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1968-02-20T00:00:00Z/1968-10-03T23:59:59.999Z

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