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    • GVHRR/ATS-6 Black and White Visible Images on Film V001 (GVHRRATS6IMVIS) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

    GVHRRATS6IMVIS is the Geosynchronous Very High Resolution Radiometer (GVHRR) Black and White Visible Images on Film data product from the sixth Applications Technology Satellite (ATS-6). This set of visible imagery (0.55 to 0.75 micrometer, with a 5.5 km footprint at the sub-satellite point) was originally produced on commercial image-generation equipment from digital tapes and was made available on 70-mm film, from which they were later scanned to digital TIFF image files. Each TIFF scan contains 2 or 3 pictures, and there are several hundred scans from an original 70 mm film roll which are combined into a ZIP file. Each picture contains a title at the bottom of the image and a gray scale on the right boundary that represents brightness temperatures. The title contains the satellite identification, receiving station, spectral band, picture number, picture type, pixel scale, sector number, and date.The ATS-6 satellite was in a geosynchronous orbit parked at 95W viewing the hemisphere below the satellite. The GVHRR experiment returned data from launch until August 15, 1974 when it became inoperable, The PI was William E. Shenk from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.This product was previously available from the NSSDC with the identifier ESAD-00047 (old ID 74-039A-08A).

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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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    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/743PMYFA8F8J
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-28
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 0ab4d78f-5aa7-4507-9f3a-2c408f38e34f
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/GVHRRATS6IMVIS_001.png
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":175,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-5,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3692529e502f410efb76f468507f2829ffa42b84b83ce245534c81829a17b67d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1974-06-07/1974-06-07

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