The NASA Direct Readout and LCLUC Program

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The NASA Direct Readout and LCLUC Program

• Garik Gutman,
• LCLUC Program Manager,
• Program Scientist for Landsat/EO1/Terra/DB
• NASA Headquarters
• Washington, DC

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Benevento, Italy Oct.05
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Benevento, Italy Oct.05
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NASA Direct Broadcast Program

• Supported development of Direct Readout
  Capabilities from NASA EOS/MODIS
• Development and provision of DR code, User Guides
  and Algorithm Documentation
• NPP/VIIRS is more for operational users than EOS
• IPO provides support for developing DR
  capabilities
• Interest from users in transitioning the
  NPP/VIIRS Environmental Data Records and NASA
  Science Algorithms to the DR community as they
  mature
• Seeking data continuity with MODIS

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Increasing Number of MODIS Direct Broadcast Sites
82 plus Direct Readout sites around the world
for Terra/Aqua DB downlink. Web-based MODIS fire
servers in Australia, Africa, Brazil, Mexico,
Europe, Russia there are recent requests for
support from India, Mongolia, Malaysia
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NASA Direct Broadcast Program

• Interested in fostering self organization within
  the DR community
• Sharing experience
• Developing observation requirements for future
  missions
• Identifying community DR standards and protocols
• Participating in product validation activities
• An international Land DR Community of Practice is
  currently being developed in the framework of
  GOFC/GOLD for the moderate resolution sensors
• Building on AVHRR and MODIS experience
• Adapting the MODIS science algorithms for DR use
  
• Preparing for VIIRS
• Encouraging other space agencies and sensors to
  provide DR capability

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The Land DR Workshop (Mexico, Oct 2007)

• The NASA DR Lab should serve as a central portal
  for land algorithms/code and data products from
  MODIS and VIIRS and help coordinate the
  development of priority DR products, which are
  currently unavailable in the DR domain (e.g.
  burned area, LAI, NPP, etc.)
• Establishing/formalizing an international Land DR
  coordination body
• Develop regional DR networks
• Help resolve science and operational issues
  affecting the international DR community
• Specifically, this coordination group should
  promote the development of DR capability form
  the international moderate resolution assets

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Whats In a Name?

• Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil
• But everyone knew her as Nancy.
• Rocky Raccoon by Paul McCartney

• Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)
• Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
  (MODIS)
• both are actually referred to as Coarse
  resolution by... ?
• Then what is Landsat?
• High resolution - 1-5 m

moderate resolution
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Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program

• LCLUC is an interdisciplinary scientific theme
  within NASAs Earth Science program. The ultimate
  vision of this program is to develop the
  capability for periodic global inventories of
  land use and land cover from space, to develop
  the scientific understanding and models necessary
  to simulate the processes taking place, and to
  evaluate the consequences of observed and
  predicted changes
• http//lcluc.hq.nasa.gov/

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Program Management
Garik Gutman NASA HQ
Chris Justice, U.Maryland
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LCLUC Drivers of Disturbance/Stress

• Natural Drivers
• Natural hazards (fires, droughts, floods,
  hurricanes, landslides)
• Invasive species
• Climate
• Anthropogenic Drivers
• Agricultural changes
• Landscape modification, e.g. urbanization
• Forest clearing, logging fires
• Grazing by domestic animals

• Socio-Economic Drivers
• Technological change and macro-economic
  transformations
• Political economy and institutional change
• Values, attitudes, beliefs, individual and
  household behavior
• Human population dynamics

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LCLUC Consequences/Impacts

• Forestry
• Agriculture
• Wetlands and coastal zone
• Water resources and their quality
• Carbon storage and release
• Habitat degradation and fragmentation
• Atmospheric processes

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NASA LCLUC-relevant Missions
Systematic Missions - Observation of Key Earth
System Interactions
Aqua
Landsat 7
Terra
5/3/02
4/15/99 12/18/99
Exploratory Missions - Exploration of Specific
Earth System Processes and Parameters and
Demonstration of Technologies
EO-1
SRTM
2/11/00 11/21/00
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Program Make-up

• Total 60 projects gt more than 200 people
• LCLUC Monitoring/Modeling
• LCLUC/Carbon Cycle
• LCLUC/Water Cycle
• LCLUC/Climate/Environment/Biodiversity

http//lcluc.hq.nasa.gov/
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Support of Regional Initiatives

• LBA Regional Field Campaign in Amazon
• CARPE Central African Regional Project on the
  Environment in Congo Basin (with US AID)
• MAIRS
• NEESPI

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Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS)

• the most active human development with a history
  of more than 5000 years civilization and highest
  population density of the world
• the most rapid development in last decades and is
  expected to continue rapid development in the
  incoming century
• human activities of the monsoon Asia region have
  and will have significant impacts on the
  environmental conditions, not only regionally but
  also globally

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Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership
Initiative (NEESPI)

• International, multi-agency program for Earth
  science research in northern Eurasia focused on
  ecosystem-climate interactions
• Almost a quarter of the global land, representing
  most of the existing geo-botanic zones except for
  tropical multi-disciplinary program covering
  basic terrestrial, environmental disciplines
• An important area of the globe with early
  indications of the global climate change
• Challenges many countries, many languages,
  different mentalities, remote locations
• Advantages plenty of data, talents existing
  infrastructure

NEESPI
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NEESPI
NEESPI-MAIRS Overlap
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NEESPI Participation
18 institutions in Moscow participate in 21
projects
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Red dots Principal Investigators Blue dots
Co-Investigators
Green dots Collaborators
Squares Focus Research
Centers and Science Data Support Centers

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400 scientists 200 institutions gt100 projects
gt30 countries
6 institutions in Beijing participate in 5
projects
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NASA NEESPI Science

• Carbon Cycle
• 3 projects (first year)
• LCLUC (Hydrology)
• 7 projects (final year)
• LCLUC (Climate, Environmental Impacts)
• 6 projects (mid-term)
• Terrestrial Hydrology
• 6 projects (mid-term)
• ACCESS (Data Systems Program)
• 1 project (final year)
• Interdiscplinary Program (Biodiversity)
• 2 projects (mid-term)
• IPY 3 projects (first year)
• Total 6M per year,
• 30 projects

http//neespi.org
Special issue in Global Planetary
Change http//www.sciencedirect.com/science/journa
l/09218181
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NEESPI
MAIRS
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Thailand An important Asian crossroads for
remote sensing

• THEOS
• Direct Readout facility
• UNEP ESCAP
• AIT
• Academia

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Looking into the Future

• Both MODIS (Terra and Aqua) instruments are over
  their planned mission life (5 yrs)
• In 2010 VIIRS on NPP/NPOESS
• Need preparation by the DR community
• Need data overlap with MODIS for continuity
  (MODIS land products ? similar VIIRS
  environmental data records)

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Mid-Decadal Global Land Survey GLS2005

• Develop a global orthorectified dataset from
  Landsat or Landsat-like observations based on
  measurements during 2004-2007
• Use Landsat-7 composites as primary source,
  Landsat-5 ground stations data to complement,
  ASTER to fill the remaining gaps, EO-1/ALI over
  islands
• USGS lead Phase I data compilation (completed)
• NASA lead Phase II data processing at USGS
• Full global dataset will be available in early
  2009
• Parts are becoming available during this year
• Phase III LCLUC products by community
• NASA ROSES-2007 LCLUC solicitation

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Thank you!