Improving access to Land and Atmosphere science products from Earth Observing Satellites: Helping NACP investigators better utilize MODIS data products.
Robert
Wolfe, NASA GSFC, robert.e.wolfe@nasa.gov
(Presenting)
Jeff
Morisette, NASA GSFC, jeff.morisette@nasa.gov
Feng
Gao, NASA GSFC, fgao@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
Greg
Ederer, NASA GSFC/SAIC, gederer@saicmodis.com
Jeff
Pedelty, NASA GSFC, Jeff.Pedelty@nasa.gov
NACP ACCESS is a NASA-funded project supporting the upcoming North American Carbon Program (NACP), a component of the USGCRP Carbon Cycle Science Program. The purpose of this ACCESS project is to provide researchers with MODIS data products that are custom tailored for use in NACP model studies.
The NACP is designed to provide the scientific underpinning to inform future policy decisions involving the carbon cycle, such as managing carbon sources and sinks by efficient and effective options to reduce emission or enhance carbon sinks.
Our strategy is to offer a wide range of processing capabilities to be applied to any of the MODIS land and atmosphere products for a focus group of NACP investigators. During this first year we will develop the capacity to provide these investigators with very specific products that precisely match their needs. In year two we will expand the number of users to ~30 while assessing which requests/tools are most common among users. Year three would then develop an operational capacity for the most requested and/or critical tools.
This poster shows some results of our progress to date.