Imaging · collection · 2025
CALIPSO Lidar Level 0 PIVB data
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/caliop/calipso/cal_lid_l0_pivb-standard-v1-00
CAL_LID_L0_PIVB-Standard-V1-00 is the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Lidar Level 0 Payload Instrument Verification and Block (PIVB), Version 1-00 data product.
Description
These data were collected intermittently between August 2016 and June 2023 using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP). The CALIPSO payload flight software, when commanded, creates Lidar Level 0 PIVB data packets for each of the three channels: 532 nm parallel, 532 nm perpendicular, and 1064 nm.
These packets contain the altitude-dependent profiles (15 m resolution) of the raw backscatter signals acquired in the high and low gain channels over 15 consecutive laser pulses prior to being processed by CALIOP’s on-board profile averaging algorithm. Also included in the product are time and position information for each laser pulse, associated instrument engineering data, and an array containing the on-board measurement altitudes.
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No post-processing is done for the PIVB data, so the backscatter profiles have not been altitude-registered, geolocated, range-corrected, or calibrated. The PIVB data is not part of routine science data capture and is acquired only episodically throughout the latter portion of the CALIPSO mission. CALIPSO was a partnership between NASA and the French Space Agency, CNES.
CALIPSO was launched on April 28, 2006 to study the many roles played by clouds and aerosols in Earth’s climate and weather. It flew in the international A-Train constellation for coincident Earth observations from launch until September 13, 2018, when CALIPSO began lowering its orbit from 705 km to 688 km (428 miles) above the Earth to resume formation flying with CloudSat as part of the “C-Train”. The CALIPSO satellite carried three remote sensing instruments: the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), the ImagingInfrared Radiometer (IIR), and the Wide Field-of-View Camera (WFC).
By mutual agreement between NASA and CNES, the CALIPSO science mission concluded on August 1, 2023.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/caliop/calipso/cal_lid_l0_pivb-standard-v1-00 ↗
DOI data set landing page for CAL_LID_L0_PIVB-Standard-V1-00_V1-00
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Data User's Guide - FAQ asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_FAQ_mod… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Data Products Catalog - Release 5.00 asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/CALIPSO_DPC_Rev5x00.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Data User's Guide - Payload asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_Payload… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/user_guides/CALIPSO_Data_Users_Guide_Peer_Re… ↗
CALIPSO Data User's Guide - Peer Reviewed Bibliography
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/calipso/quality_summaries/cal_lid_l0_pivb_v1-00_desc… ↗
CALIPSO Data Description and Quality Summary – CALIOP Level 0 PIVB
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- How to cite ASDC data asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- CALIPSO Final Report ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20260000771 ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880519095-LARC_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3880519095-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search for CAL_LID_L0_PIVB-Standard-V1-00_V1-00 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data)
download · from NASA CMR
- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C3880519095-LARC_CLOUD ↗
Virtual Directory for CAL_LID_L0_PIVB-Standard-V1-00_V1-00
download · from NASA CMR
- PNG asdc.larc.nasa.gov/static/images/project_logos/calipso.png ↗
download · preview image · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource science.nasa.gov/mission/calipso ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/CALIPSO ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Resource calipso.cnes.fr/fr ↗
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/calipso-lidar-level-0-pivb-data-abe65 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=d2fa4fd1-9cef-4fc3-aed1-cf825e612… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880519095-LARC_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3880519095-LARC_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations · Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization · Lidar · Lidar Backscatter
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 20 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3880519095-LARC_CLOUD | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | d2fa4fd1-9cef-4fc3-aed1-cf825e61222e | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
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| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:caliop | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/lidar | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/spectral-engineering/lidar/lidar-backscatter | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:calipso | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |