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amsr-class: Class to Hold amsr Data

Description

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-2) is in current operation on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) GCOM-W1 space craft, launched in May 2012. Data are processed by Remote Sensing Systems. The satellite completes an ascending and descending pass during local daytime and nightime hours respectively. Each daily file contains 7 daytime and 7 nighttime maps of variables named as follows within the data slot of amsr objects: timeDay, SSTDay, LFwindDay (wind at 10m sensed in the 10.7GHz band), MFwindDay (wind at 10m sensed at 18.7GHz), vaporDay, cloudDay, and rainDay, along with similarly-named items that end in Night. See [1] for additional information on the instrument.

Arguments

concept

satellite

Details

The bands are stored in raw form, to save storage. The accessor function [[,amsr-method can provide these values in raw form or in physical units; plot.amsr, and summary.amsr work with physical units.

References

1. http://www.remss.com/missions/amsre

See Also

landsat-class for handling data from the Landsat-8 satellite.

Other functions dealing with satellite data: [[,landsat-method, g1sst-class, landsatAdd, landsatTrim, plot,amsr-method, plot,landsat-method, plot,satellite-method, read.amsr, read.g1sst, read.landsat, satellite-class, summary,amsr-method, summary,landsat-method, summary,satellite-method