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HIRS/Nimbus-6 Images of Brightness Temperature on 70 mm Film V001 contains black and white infrared images from the Nimbus-6 satellite's High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder. The dataset includes images from August 17, 1975, through March 4, 1976, with each image covering one orbit or 125 minutes of data. The instrument was a multi-channel filter radiometer operated by the NOAA National Environmental Satellite Service under Principal Investigator W. L. Smith.
Quantitative analysis requires conversion from the 18-step gray scale to brightness temperatures using a table found in the first six volumes of 'The Nimbus 6 Data Catalog.' Data is in an analog film image format, not a modern digital array.