Forward-Looking Digital Camera Movies

During the PLOWS project, the NSF/NCAR C-130 flew a forward looking digital camera for in-flight video capture. Individual JPEG photo images were captured once per second during flights. Images taken after dark have been stripped and the remaining images were converted to MPEG (.MP4) movie files. The movies are MPEG-4 codec playable with Quicktime (Mac/Windows), Xine (Linux), Mplayer, or VLC (cross-platform). The original images are 704x480 pixels and were recorded at 1 frame/second. The movies are set to play back at 712x384 pixels and 15 fps.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2009-11-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2010-03-09T01:19:11Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2010-03-09T01:19:11Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 47.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 35.00000
Bounding Box West Long -97.00000
Bounding Box East Long -85.00000
Spatial Representation video
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format MP4: MPEG-4 (h.264) video (video/mp4)
Standardized Resource Format Movie
Asset Size 4191 MB
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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Publication Date 2013-07-18T17:16:32
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6NP22R5
Alternate Identifier 113.087
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:44:41Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::113.087
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2013). Forward-Looking Digital Camera Movies. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6NP22R5. Accessed 25 October 2025.

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