STAR 5-min Camera Photography

This dataset provides images of the sky and current surface conditions taken at the Environment Canada Weather Office in Iqaluit, NU over the duration of the STAR project. A Campbell Scientific CC680 still imaging camera took imagery taken every 5 minutes. The camera was facing north and had a direct view of the 10-m tower weather station (A3). An overnight light was installed so that conditions could be monitored during darkness, which was the normal procedure for much of the project. Data was continuously written to a compact flash card in *.jpg format. Each image was > 200 kb in size. Based on the image size, and card memory, the card reached its capacity every 5 days. Instead of letting the card fill up, the compact flash was downloaded daily, which means that for each day of data there might be one or two missing photographs in succession during the time when the card was downloaded. During the Winter Blowing Snow Project the cameras sampling resolution was adjusted so that it could be left without downloading for longer periods. Between February 24-April 10, photos were taken every 30 minutes. Images taken with the 5-min camera have a time stamp on the actual photo. Time is in local standard, and was not adjusted for daylight savings (Nov 4 - 2:00am). Users should be aware of this when using the data files.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2007-10-10T00:00:00Z
    End:  2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2007-10-10T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2008-04-11T00:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 63.75000
Bounding Box South Lat 63.75000
Bounding Box West Long -68.55000
Bounding Box East Long -68.55000
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : Metadata_5-MinuteCameraStills.pdf

Documentation #2 : STAR_Data_Report_Final2011.pdf

Additional Information N/A
Resource Format JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) (image/jpeg)
Standardized Resource Format Image
Asset Size 4375 MB
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Author John Hanesiak
Ron Stewart
Kent Moore
Peter Taylor
Walter Strapp
Mengistu Wolde
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2020-08-10T21:50:49
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/HP56-N426-0C0R
Alternate Identifier 251.007
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:44:25Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::251.007
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation John Hanesiak, Ron Stewart, Kent Moore, Peter Taylor, Walter Strapp, Mengistu Wolde. (2020). STAR 5-min Camera Photography. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/HP56-N426-0C0R. Accessed 08 November 2024.

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