ACRES Update, Issue 25, December 2001 Government widens access to spatial data STAR Service in agricultural industry Australian landcover as never seen before

ACRES Update Monitoring pastures from space Remote sensing research at Coleambally Irrigation Area Satellite imagery helps to classify Australia's estuaries

ACRES Update, Issue 22, December 2000 ACRES Archive a National Resource First MODIS poster of Australia

ACRES Update, Issue 24, July 2001 STAR Service shortens delivery time ACRES Poster features impace crater A unique applicaiton using satellie imagery as art

ACRES Update, Issue 19, Special "Landsat 7" Edition, August 1999 Lower prices for Lansat 7 products ASEAN experts meet in Hanoi Taiwan ground station benchmarks with ACRES

ACRES Update, Issue 20, 20th Anniversary Edition, December 1999 ACRES releases SPOT 4 products Celebrating 20 years Satellie imagery used in projects to reduce global warming Alice Springs Landsat 7 poster

ACRES Update, Issue 17, July 1998 New leap forward as ACRES offers JERS data

ACRES Update, Issue 18, June 1999 Online ordering of satellite imagery ACRES to offer Landsat 7 imagery SAR data detects oil slicks New $2 million optiacal data processor

ACRES Update, Issue 21, July 2000 Terra Oberving the Earth New Product Catalogue Remote Sensing and emergency management

This document describes a tape format used by ACRES Data Acquisition Facility (DAF) in Alice Springs and the Tasmanian Earth Resources Satellite Station (TERSS) in Hobart for raw data storage of satellite data. Although the format is generic enough to be used with a variety of tape drive technologies, the ADF implementation is currently using Digital Linear Tapes (DLTs). This format description is therefore explicitly discussing (and may therefore appear limited to) the DLT. More specifically, the tape drives used at the DAF and TERSS ground stations are DLT7000s. PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT This is an Interface Control Document (ICD). The intent is to produce a description detailed enough for any developer of a system or software module to make use of and interface in an optimum way to the device/module/format subject of this description.