FIFE Overview
The First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project) Field Experiment (FIFE) was a large-scale climatology project conducted on the Konza Prairie in Kansas from 1987 through 1989.
The general objectives of FIFE were to:
- improve understanding of carbon and water cycles
- coordinate data collected by satellites, aircraft, and ground instruments
- use satellites to measure carbon and water cycles
- understanding the biophysical processes controlling the fluxes of exchanges of radiation, moisture, and carbon dioxide between the land surface and the atmosphere
- developing and testing remote-sensing methodologies for observing these processes at a pixel level
- understanding how to scale the pixel-level information to regional scales commensurate with modeling of global processes
FIFE Resources
The following FIFE resources are maintained by the ORNL DAAC:
Get FIFE Data
Find and order data sets:
- See list of data sets and download data
- Browse FIFE Data Holdings by selected attributes
- Retrieve FIFE data by FTP browse
- Search FIFE Metadata (Mercury)
Related FIFE Links
Information related to the FIFE Study can be found at the following links:
- The Konza Prairie Biological Station (LTER)
- Photos of the Konza Prairie
- Konza Prairie Partnership, The Nature Conservancy
- The History of the Konza Prairie