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Spatial Resolution
Greater Than 1km

Spatial Resolution
100m - 1km

Spatial Resolution
10m - 100m

Spatial Resolution
Less Than 10m

Microwave Sensors

Planned Sensors

 New Land Products / Projects
new par product for north america
The University of Maryland recently released a daily PAR product for North America generated from MODIS for the years 2003-2005.
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burned area product image

NASA recently released a new 500m Burned Area product. Read more about the algorithm and availability here...
New 300 meter land cover product
The POSTEL Service Center has produced the first global land cover map at 300m resolution with 22 land cover classes using full resolution MERIS/ENVISAT data from May 2005 - April 2006.
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Long term data record product

LTDR (Long-Term Data Record) is a NASA-funded REASoN project to produce a consistent long-term data set from AVHRR and MODIS instruments for climate studies.
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Landsat Calibration Document

The USGS has produced an official summary of the current equations and rescaling factors for converting calibrated DNs to absolute units of at-sensor spectral radiance, TOA reflectance, and at-sensor brightness temperature for the Landsat suite of sensors. Document
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Essential Climate Variables

The United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have developed a seris of Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables (ECV's) in conjunction with the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). The following is a list of those ECV's relating to terrestrial observations with links to data serving these observations:

 International Coordination

The international community has established several organizations to coordinate efforts and requirements for current and future missions:

 Mission to Measurements

The NASA Earth science research program’s Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Focus Area and Water and Energy Cycle Focus Area are establishing a Land Measurements Team to address their observation needs for science-quality time series data records.

The new measurement team is intended to shift the emphasis away from individual mission-oriented data sets to measurements to meet the needs of the focus areas that utilize observations from different missions and instruments.

NASA ESDRs

The NASA Land Measurements Team addresses the observation needs for science-quality time series data records, to be called “Earth System Data Records” (ESDRs). These ESDRs will meet the needs of both the research and applied science communities of NASA. The ESDR white papers are intended as a basis for measurement team discussion.



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