Core Test Sites WTF

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Core Test Sites WTF

• John Faundeen
• WGCV-23 WGISS-19
• March 2005
• Cordoba, Argentina

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Outline

• Background
• Chronology
• Phases
• Users
• Stats

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Background

• Yves-Louis Desnos Peter Churchill
• WGCV Proposal to WGISS
• USGS NASA Express Interest

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Chronology

• WGCV WGISS Chairs Discuss (c. 2001)
• WGCV Proposal to WGISS (9/2001)
• WGISS-13 Discussion (2/2002)
• USGS Agrees to Lead WTF
• WGCV WGISS Telecons (3/2002)
• Requirements Project Plan Developed
• Initial Release (5/2003)
• WGCV-22 (6/2004)
• Additional SGs Join

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Phases

• Phase I Objectives Tasks
• Prototype for Easy Access / Portal Approach
• Represent EOS Core Test Sites Data
• MODIS
• Field Data Sets via Oak Ridge DAAC
• Build Upon Existing Work
• Provide MODIS Subsets Reprojected into UTM
• Provide MODIS Subsets Reformatted into GeoTIFF
• Provide ETM Images Reformatted as GeoTIFF
• Provide SPOT Vegetation in UTM GeoTIFF

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Phases

• Phase II
• Incorporate MODIS 8-Day LAI
• Identify All Archived MODIS Landsat Images
  Easily
• Incorporate MERIS Data
• Incorporate SRTM Data
• Incorporate SeaWiFS or SPOT Vegetation

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Phases

• Phase III - Argentina
• Add Three New Sites
• Puget Sound, WA
• Railroad Valley, NV
• Southwest Amazon, Brazil
• Offer UTM Geographic Projections
• Link to AVHRR SPOT Vegetation _at_ GSFC
• Discuss in Argentina
• Additional WGCV SG Participation
• Additional Sites - More Geographic Balance
• Gobi Desert?
• Siberia?

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Phases

• Phase IV September 2005
• Add Field Data Sets for 3 New Sites
• Determine Additional Sites
• GTOS TEMS, CEOP, GT-net, ILTERS, etc.
• Add MERIS Data via a Linkage
• Add CHRIS/PROBA Data
• Asian Site(s)
• Determine Additional MODIS Products

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Users

• Xu Yongmei (Res - China)
• Sham Davande (Res - India)
• Dimitrios Papayiannis (Res - Greece)
• Paul Christakopoulos (Res - Greece)
• Stefan Erasmi (Aca - Germany)
• Erin Eppling (Com - Alabama)
• Kevin Gallo (Gov - NOAA)
• Peter Wright (Org - Burkina Faso)
• James Slater (Mil - NGA)
• Nancy Ritchey (Gov - NASA)
• Zikuan Zhou (China)
• Camilo Alcantara (UNAM - Mexico)
• Molly Brown (SSAI - Maryland)

• Keith Jones (Com - Broadband)
• Nuno Gil (Aca United Kingdom)
• Mario Barroso (Org - Conservation)
• Hee Il Lee (Aca - Utah)
• Krishna Raj (Com - IT/GIS)
• Lan Lan (Res - France)
• John Faundeen (Gov USGS)
• John Dwyer (Gov USGS)
• Tim Smith (Gov USGS)
• Kathy Goodale (Gov USGS)
• Diane Krell (Gov USGS)
• Kelly Feistner (Gov USGS)

25 Registered Since May 2004.
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Stats - Registrations

• Researcher 8
• Academia 3
• Organization 2
• Commercial 3
• Military 1
• Government 8
• Total 25

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Stats - Users

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Stats - Files
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Stats - Megabytes
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