RADARSAT-1 Open Data Survey

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Canada’s RADARSAT-1 was the first operational radar-based Earth Observation Satellite. RADARSAT-1 acquired numerous data collections from 1995 to 2013. The historical value of this data is clear as it allows making comparisons using images of the same region acquired over the years: for example, to study climate change effects.

The Canadian Space Agency has recently released over 37 000 RADARSAT-1 images for public use, free of charge; you can download them here. In light of this initiative, we are evaluating the feasibility of opening up more RADARSAT-1 data over Canada and internationally. Please answer the survey before 2019-06-28, by (Clicking here) in order to help us better understand your needs and preferences with respect to RADARSAT-1 data.

If you have already filled out this survey, please ignore this email. If you know other people who would like to fill out the survey, please provide them with this link: https://forms.gle/QRpso98XpTj2fnHF6. For any questions please contact julie.claveau@canada.ca

P.S.: Note that if you are experiencing difficulties in completing the document due to software issues, please let us know. As a first step, please try to first copy the following address into your internet browser: http://www4.asc-csa.gc.ca/metadata/default.aspx?FIId=8A1B6AA243585146E0530B0011ACACF9&CId=8A1B6AA247B85146E0530B0011ACACF9&lng=en-CA.

Additional information:

• Open data: over 36,000 historical RADARSAT-1 satellite images of the Earth now available to the public
• Earth Observation Data Management System

 

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Catalogue of Climate Data Sources

A catalogue of climate data sources with links. Please feel free to add new links or report for broken links.

Data Type	Data Source	Link
Climate data (raw)	(Global Historical Climate Network: weather station records from around the world, temperature and precipitation)	ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v2/
	USHCN US. Historical Climate Network	ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/ ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/
	World Monthly Surface Station Climatology	http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds570.0/
	Antarctic weather stations	https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/met/READER/
	European weather stations	http://eca.knmi.nl/
	Italian Meterological Society	http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/aktuell
	Satellite feeds	https://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&project=SORCE https://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/atdd
	Tide Gauges	http://www.psmsl.org/
	World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)	http://wgms.ch/
	International Argo Project	http://www.argo.net/
	International Comphensive Ocean – Atomospheric Dataset	http://icoads.noaa.gov/
	Aerosol Robotic Network	https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Climate data (processed)	Surface temperature anomalies	https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/anomalies.php#anomalies http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut4/index.html http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/ann_wld.html http://berkeleyearth.org/
	Satellite temperatures (MSU)	http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/ http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/mscat/index.php
	Sea surface temperatures	ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/OI-daily-v2/
	Stratospheric Temperature	http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/temperature/
	Sea Ice	http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/ http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/amsre.html http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
	Radiosondes	http://www.univie.ac.at/theoret-met/research/raobcore/ http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadat/ http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/radproj/index.htmlhttp://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/temp/sterin/sterin.html
	Cloud and radiation products	https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/products/onlineData.html https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/ceres/table_ceres.html
	Sea Level	http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ http://www.psmsl.org/
	Aerosols	http://dataipsl.ipsl.jussieu.fr/AEROCOM/ https://gacp.giss.nasa.gov/
	Greenhouse Gases	https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/ https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/
	Snow Cover	http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/index.php
	GLIMS Glacier Database	http://glims.colorado.edu/glacierdata/
	Ocean Heat Content	https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/ https://oceans.pmel.noaa.gov/
	Ocean CO2	http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/
	GCOS Essential Climate Variables	https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gosic
	NOAA Climate Indicators	https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams
Data Visualization & Analysis	GIOVANNI	https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/
	Climate Explorer	http://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi?someone@somewhere
	IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library	http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/
	Wood fro trees	http://woodfortrees.org/plot/
	International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	http://www.ipcc-data.org/maps/
	Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium	https://www.pacificclimate.org/about-pcic/programs
	ClimateWizard	http://www.climatewizard.org/
	Global Change Master Directory	https://gcmd.nasa.gov/
	CLIVAR	http://www.clivar.org/data/global.php
	USA Weather RADAR	https://radar.weather.gov/
	Canadian Weather RADAR	https://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html

Monitoring Arctic Glaciers using Copernicus Sentinel-1 Satellites

ESA’s Climate Change Initiative in Glaciers_CCI Project, a team of researchers are using Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR data with other optical data to monitor glaciers from space. The Negribreen glacier surge has been captured and shown in the animated gif (credit: ESA)