Terra Publications

Instrument-specific Publications Pages

• Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents (ATBDs)
  For details on the logic behind each of Terra’s data products, refer to the listing of ATBDs. These are technical documents describing the process by which the Terra data products are produced using the radiance and reflectance information collected by the five onboard sensors.

• Remote Sensing of the Earth’s Environment from Terra
  A short course presented by Terra principal investigators to graduate students at La Scuola per la Societô dell’Informazione, in L’Aquila, Italy, in September 2002.

• Terra Helps Fight Fires: Toward Operational Use of Terra Data, a presentation by Yoram Kaufman, former Terra Project Scientist
  PDF (2.8 MB), Power Point(6.8 MB)

• Terra Brochure (pdf)

• Terra Science Writer’s Guide (pdf, 400k)

• Terra Press Kit (pdf, 300 KB)

• Build a Paper Model of Terra

• Terra Poster
  • Front (400 kB)
  • Back (1.1 MB)

• Fact Sheets
  • What are Aerosols?
  • Changing Global Cloudiness
  • Changing Global Land Surface
  • The Roles of the Ocean in Climate Change
  • Why Isn’t Earth Hot as an Oven?

• EOS AM-1 Brochure (HTML) (PDF 4.4 MB)

• Full Size Terra Logo (JPG 1.0MB)

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