Overview
The Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE) was a mini field campaign conducted at the Jornada Experimental Range in the Chihuahuan Desert, near Las Cruces, New Mexico in May 1997. The goals of PROVE were to:
- Gain experience in the collection and use of field data for EOS product validation
- Develop protocols for coordination, measurement, and data archival
- Compile a synoptic land and atmospheric data set for testing algorithms
The remote-sensing portion of PROVE involved investigators from three NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) instrument teams:
- MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer)
- ASTER (Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer)
- MISR (Multi-Angle Imaging Spectro Radiometer)
The campaign also coincided with the AVIRIS (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) flight coordinated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and with Jornada Long-Term Ecological Research projects in the same basin.
PROVE Resources
The following PROVE resources are maintained by the ORNL DAAC:
Get PROVE Data
Find and order PROVE data sets:
- See list of data sets and download data
- Browse PROVE Data Holdings by selected attributes
- Retrieve PROVE data by FTP browse
- Search PROVE Metadata (Mercury)
Related PROVE Links
Information related to the PROVE Project can be found at the following links: