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Science Highlights - 2008

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July

  • Use of Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) Data for ICESat II Planning
  • Freshwater Fluxes From Aquarius
  • Sea Ice Drift In The Arctic Since The 1950s
  • Potential Satellite Based Prediction of Lake Chad Water Levels
  • A Unified Land Surface Modeling and Data Assimilation Framework for the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)
  • Regional Aboveground Forest Biomass Using Airborne and Spaceborne LiDAR in Québec
  • Mapping North American Forest Disturbance from Landsat
  • NASA & USGS Release 2005 Global Land Survey (GLS)
  • Near Real-Time Satellite Processing Systems

June

  • Comparison of Satellite-Derived and In-Situ Observations of Ice and Snow Surface Temperatures over Greenland
  • Synthetic Aperture Microwave Radiometry at L-band for Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

April/May

  • An Anomalous Phytoplankton Bloom in the Patagonian Shelf: A 10-year Event Observed by Ocean Color Satellites
  • Development of a combined passive/active microwave soil moisture retrieval algorithm based on a vegetation scattering model employing discrete random medium techniques
  • Agricultural Research and Training Supported by Unique Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)

March

  • Antarctic Sea Ice Results from the AMSR-E Bootstrap (ABA) and NASA Team (NT2) Algorithms: Similar but Not Identical
  • Assessment of ICESat sea ice elevation accuracies using airborne laser altimeter data
  • Using Mycosporine-like Amino Acids as Taxonomic Indicators in Remote Sensing Reflectance
  • Determination of Tree Layer Properties for Improved Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval
  • Radiance assimilation shows promise for improving microwave snow retrievals

January/February

  • ICESat Data Showing Decline in Arctic Sea Ice Thickness
  • Tipping Point for the Arctic Perennial Ice Cover
  • A New Blended Global Snow Product Using Visible, Microwave and Scatterometer Satellite Data
  • Passive Millimeter-Wave Satellite Sensors Can Detect Falling Snow over Land
  • A Better Way to Measure Water Vapor in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS)


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