FIFE Follow-On Overview
The FIFE Follow-On project was a large-scale climatology project conducted on the Konza Prairie in Kansas from 1990 through 1993. It includes additional analysis of the data collected in the First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project) Field Experiment (FIFE) from 1987 through 1989, as well as additional field measurements.
The over-arching goal of the FIFE Follow-On project was to develop a physically based approach for using satellite remote-sensing systems. More specifically the project focused on:
- 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 Follow-On Resources
The following FIFE Follow-On 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 Follow-On Data Holdings by selected attributes
- Retrieve FIFE Follow-On data by FTP browse
- Search FIFE Metadata (Mercury)
Related FIFE Links
Information related to the FIFE Follow-On 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