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HICO file contents

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 6:48 pm America/New_York
by jasmine
I was examining the contents of the HICO HDF5 files ... the top of atmosphere radiances are in the products/Lt dataset.  But what does the dataset called "hico" in the "data" group contain?  I couldn't find any metadata information within the HDF file for it.

Thanks!
Jasmine.

HICO file contents

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:38 am America/New_York
by OB WebDev - norman
Hi Jasmine,

When we first set up HICO processing here at the OBPG,
we were inadvertently including a copy of the level-0
data in the level-1B files we were making.  This substantially
increased the file sizes unnecessarily.  The /data/hico
dataset is now no longer included in our L1B products.
Compare, for example, these two scenes

http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/browse.pl?file=H2013171234141.L1B_ISS_BRS
http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/browse.pl?file=H2013351153124.L1B_ISS_BRS

and note the difference in the compressed file sizes
(337,910,091 bytes versus 139,753,524 bytes).

Regards,
Norman