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            <ResourceName>ISIS 1 Swept-/Fixed-Averaged Ionograms</ResourceName>
            <ReleaseDate>2012-04-11T10:42:31</ReleaseDate>
            <Description>This data set consists of ISIS 1 (International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies)ionograms that have been obtained through a data restoration project. The ISIS ionograms, consisting of a fixed-frequency and a swept-frequency part, were digitized from the original ISIS telemetry tapes. The digitized sounder data consisting of 8-bit receiver-amplitude values collected at a 40 kHz rate contain the time and the frequency associated with each sounder pulse. The frequency of each sounder pulse is determined from a 3rd degree interpolation between the times of the frequency markers as identified in the sounder video during the A/D operation. Included in this data set are the average-resolution ionograms (averages of each 4 successive 40 kHz 8-bit values) in CDF format. 

Software to read and display the individual CDF files is available at

ftp://nssdcftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacecraft_data/isis/software/

These CDF files were produced at NSSDC from the original PI-provided ionogram data. Other ionogram data sets available at NSSDC include the full resolution ionograms and average ionograms both in the PI-provided (OS2) binary format, ASCII header files with pass-specific information and the PCM data which contain header, time, AGC, frequency-marker information and telemetry-level data from all other ISIS instruments. The binary average ionograms and the ASCII header files are available online at

ftp://nssdcftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacecraft_data/isis/topside_sounder/

ISIS 1 and 2 data are available to the extent permitted by telemetry scheduling and the location of telemetry stations. A list of stations can be found at

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/isis/isis-table1-new.html
and their location on a worldmap is shown in

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/isis/isis_station_lar.GIF (</Description>
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            <InformationURL>
                <Name>info about the digitization project</Name>
                <URL>http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/isis/isis-status.html</URL>
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            <RepositoryID>spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF</RepositoryID>
            <Availability>Online</Availability>
            <AccessRights>Open</AccessRights>
            <AccessURL>
                <Name>FTP access to files at SPDF</Name>
                <URL>ftp://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/isis/topside_sounder</URL>
                <Description>FTP repository of ISIS-1 Topside sounder ionograms from multiple telemetry stations</Description>
            </AccessURL>
            <AccessURL>
                <Name>HTTP access to files at SPDF</Name>
                <URL>http://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/isis/topside_sounder</URL>
                <Description>HTTP repository of ISIS-1 Topside sounder ionograms from multiple telemetry stations</Description>
            </AccessURL>
            <Format>CDF</Format>
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        <AccessInformation>
            <RepositoryID>spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF</RepositoryID>
            <Availability>Online</Availability>
            <AccessRights>Open</AccessRights>
            <AccessURL>
                <Name>CDAWeb</Name>
                <URL>http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/sp_phys/</URL>
                <ProductKey>I1_AV_ALL</ProductKey>
                <Description>ISIS 1 ionograms data with subset, plot, list functionalities from CDAWeb</Description>
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            <Format>Text</Format>
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        <MeasurementType>Waves.Active</MeasurementType>
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            <TimeSpan>
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                <StopDate>1983-12-30T15:19:33</StopDate>
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