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Research
- Air-Sea Interaction & Climate Team, Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech
Participants in NASA projects: EOSIDS (Earth Observing System
Interdisciplinary Science), a project to observe the role of sea-air
exchanges and ocean circulation in climate variability; TRMM; and
others. Site includes Seaflux from Space, an information system
designed to devise, display, and disseminate space based
ocean-atmosphere fluxes of momentum, heat and water.
- ASTER
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
is an imaging instrument that flies on the Terra satellite. It is used
to obtain detailed maps of land surface temperature, emissivity,
reflectance and elevation. Its ability to serve as a 'zoom' lens for
other instruments will be particularly important.
- Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
An experiment by the University of Colorado and K-12 schools throughout
the US to develop Earth-orbiting satellites that observe aspects of the
environment and produce a global, environmental science database. The
first satellite is under construction and will measure ozone. Each
school will measure pollution and process data from the satellite. New
schools and/or teachers needed!
- CalPhotos Image Retrieval
CalPhotos is a system for content-based image retrieval. Users can
query for photographs based on their location or the objects they contain. Includes land,
air, and water images.
- Center for Earth Observation (CEO) - Research Projects
CEO supports a variety of Earth observation projects and brings
together faculty interested in remote sensing with students trained in
the technology.
- Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) Scatterometry
Scatterometers are unique among satellite remote sensors in their
ability to determine the wind direction over water. COAPS examines
animations of scatterometer winds to get ideas for new scatterometry
applications. They have generated wind animations for 37 overlapping
regions spanning the global oceans.
- Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)
Program at the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, to advance interdisciplinary study of
people and the global environment. Includes pages for land use, water,
climate and other areas of study.
- CERES/ARM Validation Experiment
CAVE has compact packages and displays of satellite radiation data
(CERES) checked with ground measurements (ARM et al.). Radiative
transfer calculations (sunlight, infrared greenhouse) run "point and
click".
- Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Site for College Park campus. Research areas include climate studies,
Earth system science, atmospheric chemistry and climate diagnostics,
glaciology, weather prediction and atmospheric dynamics, oceanography
and air/sea interaction, remote sensing and data assimilation.
- Earth Observing System (EOS)
EOS is the centerpiece of NASA study of the Earth. It consists of a
science component and a data system supporting a coordinated series of
polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long-term global
observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere,
and oceans.
- Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC)
Site for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Mapping Division.
It houses USGS digital cartographic data products (US GeoData) and the
world's largest collection of civilian remotely sensed data covering
the Earth's land masses, housing millions of satellite images and
aerial photographs. EDC operates the National Satellite Land Remote
Sensing Data Archive, a high quality database of space-acquired images
of the Earth for use in studying global change and other related issues.
- GiST Indexing Project
GIST studies the engineering and mathematics behind content-based
indexing for massive amounts of complex content. The basis of the
project is the Generalized Search Tree (GIST), a template indexing
structure for indexing remote sensing databases and others.
- Global Land Ice Measurements from Space
Project to monitor the world's glaciers, primarily using data from the
ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and reflection Radiometer)
instrument aboard the EOS Terra spacecraft.
- Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Works to advance data assimilation, and produces research-quality
assimilated global data sets for advancing the understanding of the
Earth system and climate change.
- GSFC Ice Altimetry Home Page
The Oceans and Ice branch of the Laboratory for Hydrospheric Physics of
NASA/GSFC has processed satellite radar and aircraft laser altimetry
over the continental ice sheets and surrounding sea ice to calculate
surface elevations.
- Hydrology Laboratory Research Activities
Part of the Natural Resources Institute at Beltsville, MD, the
Hydrology Laboratory develops improved methodologies for predicting
water yield from and for agricultural lands and for monitoring and
evaluating the impact of management practices and large scale
environmental changes on water resources.
- Index of NCAR Ice Crystal Replicator Data
Summarizes profiles of cirrus cloud microphysical properties as
measured by a balloon-borne Formvar replicator. The data consist of ice
crystal images, calculated size distributions, and cloud properties.
- Landsat/ARM Clear Sky and Cloud(LCSAC) Research
LCSAC research is aimed at forging a link between Landsat and the
number one unsolved problem in global climate modeling, the role of
clouds.
- NASA GSFC Code 614.4 Calibration Facility
Facility that maintains instruments and NIST-traceable calibrated
sources to calibrate, monitor, and assess the performance of
satellite-, aircraft-, and ground-based remote sensing instrumentation.
Their instruments, sources, and expertise are available to US
government agencies, the international remote sensing community, and
academic institutions.
- NASA Langley's Lidar Applications Group
Part of the Atmospheric Sciences Division at the NASA Langley Research
Center. Develops and applies advanced lidar systems to a broad range of
atmospheric investigations, such as the development and application of
airborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) systems for studies of
O3, H2O, aerosols, and clouds.
- NIST Optical Technology Division
Source of national measurement standards and support services to
advance the use and application of optical technologies spanning the
ultraviolet through microwave spectral regions.
- Ocean Biogeochemical Processes Group
Earth observation at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Mainly
multidisciplinary research on the ocean's carbon cycle and its impact
on the geochemical cycles of the 50 or so elements which exhibit
nonconservative behavior in sea water (they don't follow variations of
sodium). Also conducts related research.
- Ocean Carbon-Cycle Model Intercomparison Project (OMCIP)
Project to help identify and understand differences between existing
3-D global ocean carbon-cycle models and thus speed their development.
- Oceanography 410
Site for courses in Physical Oceanography at Texas A&M University.
- Oceanworld
Includes questions and answers to topics related to the oceans, teacher
aids and links to information about oceans, icebergs, ice ages,
fisheries, El Nino, and explorations by satellites.
- Regional Land-Atmosphere Climate Simulation System (RELACS)
A NASA EOS Interdisciplinary Science Investigation. Main subjects are
the atmosphere, land, and water resources, with a focus on the effect
of land-atmosphere interaction over the southeast Asian monsoon region.
- Remote Sensing Project - Sea Surface Temperature
Links to projects that sense sea surface temperature and create
composite images. Includes online satellite images including samples
from the newly launched SeaWiFS instrument showing great detail in the
distribution of marine phytoplankton concentration and the processes
underlying oceanic currents.
- SeaDAS - SeaWiFS Data Analysis System
SeaDAS is a comprehensive image analysis package for processing,
displaying, analyzing, and quality control of all SeaWiFS data products
and ancillary meteorological and ozone data.
- SeaWiFS Project
SIMBIOS Science is investigating ways to validate the atmospheric
correcthttp://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/overview_dir/background.htmlion algorithm. Participants from the MODIS Oceans team and the
SeaWiFS Calibration and Validation program augment the team.
- Simulation - Seasonal-Interannual Climate Variability over Amazonia
Site with summary and reports from research on "Coupled High-Resolution
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Simulation of Seasonal-Interannual Climate
Variability over Amazonia."
- Snow Hydrology Group - UC Santa Barbara
An Interdisciplinary Science Investigation for EOS: "Hydrology,
Hydrochemical Modeling, and Remote Sensing in Seasonally Snow-covered
Alpine Drainage Basins."
- The Sosik Lab
Studies optical oceanography and phytoplankton ecology at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
- TRMM Data Assimilation at NASA Goddard
Research to develop techniques for effectively using tropical rainfall
data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) to improve 4D
assimilated global data sets.
- TRMM Data Simulation at NASA
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a satellite mission to
measure tropical rainfall with precipitation radar and a microwave
instrument, the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The goal is to develop
techniques to use TRMM data to improve 4D assimilated global data sets.
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