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NDVI Daily Images for Week Ending October 27, 2000

This is an NDVI product automatically generated a single satellite pass. Compared to the composited scene, it will have more significant effects do to cloud cover. An automatic cloud screening is used to locate the most prominent clouds. However, there are many places where low level clouds and the edges of the promininent clouds may fail to be detected. Also, thin clouds which allow some of the light from the land surface to penetrate will also go un-detected. The result is that those areas affected by undetected clouds will have low NDVI values. Another artifact that may be observed in the daily image is mis-registration. The geo-location of the data is determined from parameters which describe the motion and attitude of the spacecraft at the time of data acquisition. Perturbations in the satellites orbit and uncertainties in the attitude of the spacecraft can cause the geographic location of the image data to be miscalculated. Automated approaches based on matching the boundaries of water badies in the scene to a reference data base have been implemented. However such algorithms are not fool proof and errors may still be observed.


Daily image for October 20, 2000 (22:01)
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Daily image for October 21, 2000 (21:50)
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Daily image for October 22, 2000 (21:38)
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Daily image for October 22, 2000 (23:19)
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Daily image for October 23, 2000 (21:27)
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Daily image for October 23, 2000 (23:07)
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Daily image for October 24, 2000 (22:55)
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Daily image for October 25, 2000 (22:43)
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Daily image for October 26, 2000 (22:31)
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Daily image for October 27, 2000 (22:19)
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