Vol. 10, No. 2, 83-101, 2011
Fabia Hüsler, Fabio Fontana, Christoph Neuhaus, Michael Riffler, Jan Musial, and Stefan Wunderle
Abstract
Over the last few years an increasing need for full resolution, multi-temporal AVHRR data for climate studies has been identified. To serve the purpose of climate change monitoring, certain requirements in terms of data consistency and continuity specified by GCOS need to be met. The University of Bern has received and archived daily full resolution AVHRR data over Europe for the period 1984 to date and aims at the establishment of a high-quality fundamental climate data record in accordance with these requirements. In this paper, details on the data availability and processing system are given. A selected application on snow cover retrieval from historical AVHRR data shows encouraging results regarding the generation of long-term climatologies from different essential climate variables. It is concluded that the archive presented and the existing preprocessing hold a great potential for becoming a valuable tool for the analysis of environmental changes in the European Alps and adjacent regions.
Submitted: 3 Apr 2011
Revised: 16 Aug 2011
Accepted: 24 Aug 2011
Published: 1 Sept 2011
Responsible editor: Rainer Reuter Citation
Hüsler F, F Fontana, C Neuhaus, M Riffler, J Musial & S Wunderle, 2011. AVHRR Archive and Processing Facility at the University of Bern: A comprehensive 1-km satellite data set for climate change studies. EARSeL eProceedings, 10(2): 83-101
 |
EARSeL European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, Strasbourg, France |
 |
BIS-Verlag |