AATSR

About AATSR

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Atlantic ocean seen by Envisat's AATSR

The Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) was one of nine instruments on board the Envisat satellite. It was the third in a series of instruments designed primarily to measure Sea Surface Temperature (SST) remotely, following on from ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 on board ERS-1 and ERS-2, respectively.

AATSR was operational from 23 July 2002 to 8 April 2012, when the Envisat mission ended.

AATSR was funded by the (then) UK’s Department of the Environment (DoE) in order to support their programme of climate prediction and research. It was developed and operated in collaboration with ESA. There was also a significant Australian contribution to the AATSR programme, which was managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).


 

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Data

DATA DESCRIPTION

All Envisat AATSR products, in accordance with the ESA Earth Observation Data Policy, are freely available to registered users via FTP and HTTP. Read more about the available products and the registration process which is required to access them:

Note that a number of these datasets have been superseded by datasets generated by external entities under other ESA programmes. For example, (the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Land Surface Temperature (LST) datasets and the CCI Sea Surface Temperature (SST) datasets). It is expected that further developments will continue once the new AATSR Gridded Brightness Temperature/Reflectance dataset, generated under the latest reprocessing activity, has been released by ESA.

DATA TOOLS

Tools available for visualising, processing and analysing AATSR data:

Sentinel-3 Toolbox

The Sentinel-3 Toolbox consists of a rich set of visualisation, analysis and processing tools for the exploitation of OLCI and SLSTR data from the upcoming Sentinel-3 mission. As a multi-mission remote sensing toolbox, it supports ESA's Envisat mission (MERIS and AATSR instruments).

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SNAP

The Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) is a common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes (including the Sentinel-3 Toolbox). It is ideal for Earth Observation processing and analysis due to technological innovations.



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Auxiliary Data

Auxiliary data from ground or airborne sources is sometimes used to help produce data products. Auxiliary data files for AATSR data products are available to download.

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AATSR Cal/Val

The goal of AATSR calibration and validation activities was to verify the accuracy and quality of data the instrument acquired.

Instrument and instrument data calibration activities involve pre- and post-launch measurements that are used to characterise the instruments fully, and subsequently configure the ground segment processors to provide calibrated products (Level 1 products). Subsequent validation activities involve the validation of geophysical products (Level 2 products) against independent geophysical measurements (i.e. in-situ measurements). Overall, the latter is used to derive the accuracy and quality of the instrument data.

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AATSR Quality Control Reports

Quality Control is monitoring routinely the status of the spacecraft (instrument and satellite) and to check if the derived products meet the quality requirements throughout the mission life-time. Product availability, product anomalies, daily and monthly reports are available for AATSR quality monitoring.

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