Enrique
Montano, University of Maryland, tresmont@umd.edu
(Presenting)
Chris
Justice, University of Maryland, justice@iluci.org
The last 10 years have seen great advances in the acquisition and processing of remotely sensed observations from an ever-growing array of sensors at multiple scales. That time has also seen an exponential growth of products derived from these data allowing researchers to better understand environmental mechanisms of our planet. While numerous products are developed and distributed through a primary source such as a space agency, many are also developed by research institutions for specific projects or with little outside knowledge of availability. Consequently, the process of discovering which data are available for a given subject becomes difficult. The Land Measurements Portal addresses this problem by providing a single location to find information and sources of data related to terrestrial observations. The portal is developed as a series of subsets to four major categories of land measurement products: 1) Vegetation Parameters, Vegetation Indices, LAI / fPAR, GPP / NPP, Phenology; 2) Land Cover/Land Use Change, Land Cover, Vegetation Continuous Field, Fire Disturbance; 3) Surface Radiation Budget, Surface Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, BRDF / Surface Albedo; and 4) Land Hydrosphere, Snow Cover, Surface Hydrology. The portal also provides a series of news, services, and information that are of interest to the satellite land measurement community. The portal serves as a mechanism to promote new projects and ideas and, more importantly, to emphasize further collaboration across borders and agencies.
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