- 35 m 
  
  
  
  
Table 1 ESA-IRS DATABASES: SECTORS 
PLURIDISCIPL INARY BIOLOCY 
NASA NTIS PASCAL BIOSIS PASCAL CHEMABS TELEGEN 
. MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION CHEMISTRY 
ABI/INFORM NTIS NASA 
CHEMABS ENERGYLINE EDF  ACOMPLINE CHEMABS PASCAL 
HEALTH & SAFETY 
PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS 
INSPEC INIS NASA PASCAL 
. ENGINEER ING 
COMPENDEX  ISMEC METADEX 
ALUMINUM BRITISH NON FERROUS FLUIDEX „ENERGY 
: ENERGYLINE  EDF  INIS 
FOOD & AGRICULTURE 
COMMONWEALTH AGRICULTURAL BUREAUS 
FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AGRIS CHEMABS BIOSIS PASCAL MISCELLANEOUS 
WORLD TRANSLATION INDEX 
FRANCE-ACTUALITE CONFERENCE PAPER INDEX TRAINING FILES 
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 
ENVIRONLINE POLLUTION ABS OCEANIC ABS 
OCEANIC ABS AQUALINE ACOMPLINE INTERNATIONAL ROAD RESEARCH & 
DEVELOPMENT 
.POLYALPHABET ICAL 
LEXAR {A LEXICON IN FRENCH AND ARABIC OF TECHNICAL TERMS) 
  
  
  
  
Fige 1 
804076980 INSPEC Journal Paper 
*CITHARE^ thermal inertia and humidity cartography over Africa by 
geostationary satellite 
Vieillefosse, H.; Favard, J.-C. 
Acta Astronaut. (GB), vol.ó, no.ll p.1439-4?, 9 Refs, Nov. 1979 , 
Coden: aastc 
Treatment EXPERIMENTAL 
The study of ground thermal behaviour can give fruitful inforaation 
on subsoil characteristics and soil moisture. Interest in this field 
has led to the definition of the CITHARE project, whose ain is to 
determine the feasibility of elaborating significant products for 
geological and hydrogical purposes. The basis for such a study is to 
utilize nany successive IR and visible pictures in order to assess 
thermal inertia over a given area. For that reason a meteorological 
geosynchronous satellite, such as SHS or HETEOSAT, with ils high 
teaporal and stable coverage appears as a first choice data source. 
Results, obtained with a preliminary set of SHS data demonstrate the 
influence of sensible heat, wind, surface roughness and topography on 
the determination of thermal inertia, The continuous observation of 
the Earth is required to properly discriminate such effects for à 
Jeternination of thermal inertia 
Classification Codes: A9190 / A9240L / A9385 / A7480R 
Controlled Terns: cartography / renote sensing / soil / hydrology / 
artificial satellites / hydrological techniques 
Uncontrolled Terns: CITHARE / humidity cartography / Africa / 
geostationary satellite / subsoil characteristics / soil moisture / 
visible pictures / meteorological geosynchranous satellite / METEUSAT 
/ SHS data / wind / surface roughness / topography / soil thermal 
inertia / ground thermal bahaviour / hydrological techniques / remote 
sensing / IK inages / AD 1974 08 04 to 06 
Proca 8