AWE data products will be available to the public within 6 months of the acquisition date.
The AWE instrument contains four cameras which produce images in three spectral bands and a "background" image approximately every 1.2 seconds. For each orbit of the ISS, only those images where the instrument is looking down at the portion of the earth in shadow, are useable. Calibration corrections are applied to those images, then they are regridded to produce distortion-corrected images with pixels coincident between cameras, then coadded to reduce noise.
Coadded images from the four cameras (Level 1 data) are used to produce temperature and band intensity images (Level 2 data). Temperature and band intensity images are then used to produce temperature and band intensity swaths (Level 3 data) for one orbit.
Awe data is made available in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) files. Each NetCDF file contains usable images from one orbit of the ISS. Filenames are in the form awe_level_YYYYDOY_filter_orbit_version.nc. Where: level is one of the data levels listed below; filter is p12, p14, q20 or bkg; YYYYDOY is the UTC year and day-of-year at the start of the orbit; orbit is an orbit id unique to the AWE data; and version is a version number for the file. The file version number will be incremented if data is reprocessed for any reason. NetCDF attributes in the files contain values needed to interpret the contained images.
Each Level 2a data file contains temperature map images for one orbit.
Each Level 2b data file contains band intensity map images for one orbit.
Each Level 3a data file contains a temperature swath image for one orbit.
Each Level 3b data file contains a band intensity swath image for one orbit.