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Series A climatological guide for Meteosat users
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1027 |
| Title | A climatological guide for Meteosat users |
| Author | ESA?ESA Scientific and Technical Publications Branch ESTEC |
| Subject | Meteosat |
| Date | 1980 |
| Description | The climatological data in this publication have been extracted or derived from existing data sources in order to provide background information for use in the preparation and validation of meteorological parameters derived from Meteosat image data at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt. Federal Republic of Germany. It is hoped that this information will also be of use to individual researchers or research groups who are using Meteosat image data for their own investigations. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series ERS-1: User handbook
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1148 |
| Title | ERS-1: User handbook |
| Author | ESA?ESA Scientific and Technical Publications Branch ESTEC |
| Subject | Earth ObservationEuropean Remote Sensing satelliteERS-1 |
| Date | 1992 |
| Description | The ‘ERS‘l User Handbook” is the first document in a series to be released by ESA that will provide the remote sensing community with the information it needs to make effective use of ERS—l products and services. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series GOME : Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment: Users manual
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1182 |
| Title | GOME : Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment: Users manual |
| Author | ESA?ESA Scientific and Technical Publications Branch ESTEC |
| Subject | Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)Earth ObservationERS-2Manual |
| Date | 1995 |
| Description | This users manual has been drawn up with the purpose of giving the (actual or potential) user of GOME data a reference at hand which describes, concisely yet comprehensively, the GOME instrument, its features and limitations, and the satellite and supporting ground system. Following a brief description of the instrument’s history, both programmatically and technical (in terms of development programme), the essential features of the ERS—2 satellite and mission are described in Chapter 2, as far as they are ofrelevance to GOME. Chapter 3 summarises the main requirements for the instrument, while Chapter 4 describes in detail the technical implementation. In Chapter 5, the results of the functional and performance tests are reported; in Chapter 6, the results of the instrument calibration are noted. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series Satellite - Ground Based Coordination Sourcebook
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1198 |
| Title | Satellite - Ground Based Coordination Sourcebook |
| Author | ESA?ESA Publications Division, M. Lockwood & M.N. Wild Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Didcot, UK, HJ. Opgenoorth Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Sweden |
| Subject | ClusterADAFAGONETMagnetic Field |
| Date | 1997 |
| Description | On 4th June 1996, the four identical satellites of the Cluster mission were lost when the Ariane 5 rocket veered off course and exploded at 3500 meters, 39 seconds into its maiden flight. This disaster was a devastating setback to the many scientists who had devoted so much effort and time to what was a revolutionary and highly significant mission. It was also a major setback for many other scientists around the globe who had hoped to make measurements from the ground in co—ordination with those by Cluster. To this end, an ESA working group Chaired by 1-1.]. Opgenoorth had put in place mechanisms to plan the co-ordinated measurements and to distribute summaries of the combined data quickly, so as to facilitate science exploitation and further operations planning. The working group met several times and held open workshops in Orleans and Rome. It drew together comprehensive information about the ground—based instruments, their capabilities and how to best use them in co-ordination with spacecraft. This book is a distillation of that information. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series ISO Handbook (The), volume 2 : CAM - The ISO camera
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1262_VOL_2 |
| Title | ISO Handbook (The), volume 2 : CAM - The ISO camera |
| Author | ESA?ESA Publications Division |
| Subject | ScienceISO |
| Date | 2003 |
| Description | The CAM Handbook is one in a series of five1 documents that explain the operations of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) and its four instruments, the data received from the instruments and the processing carried out on the data. Volume I gives an overview of the entire ISO mission and it explains the operations of the ISO satellite while the remaining four explain the individual instruments (CAM7 LVVS7 PHT and SWS). The CAM document is intended to provide all information necessary to understand the offered ISOCAM standard data products, as processed by Version 10 of the Off—Line Processing (OLP) system. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series ISO Handbook (The), volume 1 : ISO mission and satellite overview : SAI-2000-035/Dec, version 2.0
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1262_VOL_1 |
| Title | ISO Handbook (The), volume 1 : ISO mission and satellite overview : SAI-2000-035/Dec, version 2.0 |
| Author | ESA?ESA Publications Division |
| Subject | ScienceISO |
| Date | 2003 |
| Description | The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) is an astronomical satellite that was operational between November 1995 and May 1998. It operated at wavelengths from 2.5 to 24011111, in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Because the atmosphere acts as an ‘umbrella’ for most infrared wavelengths 7 preventing them from reaching the ground — a space telescope is needed to detect this kind of radiation invisible to the human eye and to optical telescopes. The ISO Handbook (Volumes I to V) is, together With the ISO Data Archive, part of the legacy of the ISO Mission. It is a reference document with general information about the mission, the satellite, the instruments and the data products of the final ISO Archive. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Language | en |
Series INES Guide No. 2, International Ultraviolet Explorer - IUE Newly Extracted Spectra : Normal galaxies
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1243 |
| Title | INES Guide No. 2, International Ultraviolet Explorer - IUE Newly Extracted Spectra : Normal galaxies |
| Author | ESA?ESA Publications Division |
| Subject | ScienceIUEINES |
| Date | 2000 |
| Description | This guide presents, in a uniform manner. all the information collected by the IUE satellite on normal galaxies. It contains information on 274 galaxies and it supersedes the previous IUE guide to normal galaxies (Longo 8: Capaccioh 1992). The data, shown here are restricted to galaxies defined as “normal” by the observer, and entered as such in the IUE data file header. The information is also restricted to low—dispersion spectra obtained through the large apertures 0f IUE. For the first time. we provide spectral information from well-defined and identifiable locations in the target galaxies. These are mostly located Close to the photocentel‘ of each Object, although there are few exceptions. Each representative spectrum of a, galaxy consists of at short—wave (SW) and a long-Wave (LW) IUE low—dispersion spectrum (where available) combined into a single spectrum covering the wavelength range 1150A t0 3350A. We selected the two spectra to be combined so as to be, preferably. the deepest exposures available in the INES archive. Each representative spectrum is accompanied by two images of the galaxy, on Which the locations of the SW7 entrance aperture and the LVV entrance aperture are marked. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series IUE - INES Access guide 1, International Ultraviolet Explorer - IUE Newly Extracted Spectra : Herbig-Haro objects
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1237 |
| Title | IUE - INES Access guide 1, International Ultraviolet Explorer - IUE Newly Extracted Spectra : Herbig-Haro objects |
| Author | ESA?ESA Publications Division |
| Subject | IUEScienceastronomy |
| Date | 1999 |
| Description | The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) Satellite project was a joint effort between NASA, BSA and the PPARC. The IUE Spacecraft and instruments were operated in a Guest Observer mode to allow Ultraviolet Spectrophotometry at two resolutions in the wavelength range from 115 nm to 320 nm: low resolution AMX=300 (£1,000 knflsec.) and a high resolution mode Ak/k=10,000 (219 km/sec.). The IUE spacecraft, its scientific instruments as well as the data acquisition and reduction procedures, have been described in "Exploring the Universe with the IUE Satellite", Part I, Part VI and Part VII (Astrophysics and Space Sciences Library volume 129, Y. Kondo, Editor-in-Chief, Kluwer Acad. Publ. Co.) and references therein. From the very beginning of the project (launched on 26 January 1978), it was expected that the archival value of the data obtained with IUE would be very high. This expectation has been borne out fully after 18.6 years Of orbital operations (the Science Operations with the IUE spacecraft were stopped on 30 September 1996). The average IUE Archive data retrieval rate, during the operational phase of the Project, has been some 61,000 spectra per year. This compared with a new data collection rate of 5,500 spectra per year. Considering that the demand for observing time exceeded the available time by a factor of 3, it is clear that the IUE Archive remains an important source of data. The IUE ULDA/USSP (Uniform Low Dispersion Archive/ULDA Support Software Package) was developed by BSA in 1986 (Wamsteker et a1., 1989, Astron. & Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., V01. 79, pg. 1—10) as the first astronomical archive with direct access for users on a world wide basis. Over the 10 years that the ULDA has been supporting IUE data retrieval, it has driven more than 50% of all IUE Archive usage. The quantity of data in the IUE Archive is sufficiently large that it is not necessarily simple to address the data efficiently in the context of an astrophysical problem, even though access to the data is extremely easy. Therefore the series of ULDA Access guides is intended to facilitate the use of the IUE Archive for scientists with a specific astrophysical problem in mind. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series ISO Handbook (The), volume 3 : lWS - The long wavelength spectrometer
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1262_VOL_3 |
| Title | ISO Handbook (The), volume 3 : lWS - The long wavelength spectrometer |
| Author | ESA?ESA Publications Division |
| Subject | ScienceISO |
| Date | 2003 |
| Description | The LWS Handbook is one in a series of five1 documents that explain the operations of the Infrared SpaceObservatory (ISO) and its four instruments, the data received from the instruments and the processing carried out on the data. Volume I gives an overview of the entire ISO mission and it explains the Operations of the ISO satellite While the remaining four explain the individual instruments (CAM. LWS, PHT and SWS). The LWS document is intended to provide all information necessary to understand the Offered LWS standard data products, as processed by Version 10 0f the Off—Line Processing (OLP) system, retrievable from the Legacy ISO Data Archive (IDA) at: http://www.iso.vilspa.esa.es/ Therefore7 it gives a full description of the instrument, the automatic processing pipeline7 the calibration steps applied and the data products. In order to further reduce data through interactive analysis there are two software packages available With reduction tools written in IDL. Links to these are provided in Chapter 8. This volume of the ISO Handbook serves as the reference for both the processing as well as the correct interpretation of LWS data as available from the ISO Data Archive. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
Series ISO Handbook (The), volume 4 : PHT - The imaging Photo-polarimeter
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| Identifier | ESA_SP_1262_VOL_4 |
| Title | ISO Handbook (The), volume 4 : PHT - The imaging Photo-polarimeter |
| Author | ESA?ESA Publications Division |
| Subject | ScienceISO |
| Date | 2003 |
| Description | The PHT Handbook is one in a series of five1 documents that explain the operations of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) and its four instruments, the data received from the instruments and the processing carried out 011 the data. Volume I gives an overview of the entire 180 mission and it explains the operations of the ISO satellite While the remaining four explain the individual instruments (CAM, LWS, PHT and SVVS). The PHT document is intended to provide all information necessary to understand the offered ISOPHOT standard data products7 as processed by version 10 0f the Off—Line Processing (OLP) system, retrievable from the Legacy ISO Data Archive (IDA) at: http://www. iso.vilspa.esa. es/
Besides OLP 10 software processing steps and product specific details/ background information is provided about the ISOPHOT instrument itself, its observational modes and all aspects of calibration. |
| Publisher | ESA-ECSR |
| Contributor | Pierre Kirchner (archive manager), ECSR Team |
| Type | Text |
| Format | Medium: Hardcopy |
| Language | en |
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