Role

Name

Institution (links to SCFs)

 Land Discipline Leader
 PI, Fire and Thermal Anomalies

Chris Justice

UMD

Algorithm Refinement

 PI, Surface Reflectance /Atmospheric Correction  

Eric Vermote

UMD

 PI, Vegetation Indices

Alfredo Huete

University of Arizona

 PI, BRDF/Albedo                                    

Crystal Schaaf

Boston University

 PI, LAI and FPAR                                  

Ranga Myneni

Boston University

 PI, Net Photosynthesis

Steve Running

University of Montana

 PI, Snow and Ice Cover                            

Dorothy Hall

NASA GSFC

 PI, Land Cover

Mark Friedl

Boston University

 PI, Vegetative Cover Conversion                   

John Townshend

UMD

 PI, Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity 

Zhengming Wan

UCSB

New Algorithms

 PI, Photochemical Reflectance Index

Forrest Hall

GEST/UMBC/GSFC

 PI, Land Surface Albedo

Alex Lyapustin

GEST/UMBC/GSFC

 PI, Canopy Water Content

Susan Ustin

U.C. Davis

 PI, Evapotranspiration

Eric Wood

Princeton University

Applications/Data Analysis

 Product interoperability between sensors and space  agencies

J. P. Muller

UCL

 Use of Land Products in Climate Modeling

Robert Dickinson

Georgia Institute of Technology

 Using MODIS LST in a Coupled Data Assimilation System

Michael Bosilovich

GSFC

 MODIS Rapid Response

Jack Descloitres

SSAI/GSFC

 Use of Land Products to Drive Forest Ecosystem Models

Tom Gower

University of Wisconsin

 Arctic Vegetation Productivity and Soil Respiration

John Kimball

University of Montana

 Incident photosynthetically active radiation

Shunlin Liang

UMD

 MODIS Land Product Validation

Jeff Morisette

GSFC

 Cross-sensor Relationships of NDVI

Tomoaki Miura

University of Hawaii

 Snow Albedo

Xubin Zeng

University of Arizona

 Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis

Rama Nemani

NASA Ames

 Land Cover, Forest Structure and Biomass Estimation

Sassan Saatchi

NASA JPL

 Avian Diversity from Multi-sensor Biophysical Variables

Andrew Hansen

Montana St.