International MODISAIRS Processing Package IMAPP Products and Applications

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International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package
(IMAPP) Products and Applications
2005 International EOS/NPP Direct Readout Meeting
4 October
2005

• Allen Huang, Liam Gumley, Jun Li, Kathleen
  Strabala, Tom Rink, Jim Davies, Elisabeth Weisz,
  Kevin Baggett, Jun Huang
• Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
  Satellite Studies
• University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package
  (IMAPP)
• http//cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/gumley/IMAPP/
• Builds upon our previous experience with
• ITPP (International TOVS Processing Package)
  since 1985
• IAPP (International ATOVS Processing Package)
  since 1998
• Purpose
• The intention in developing IMAPP for processing
  direct broadcast MODIS and AIRS data is to help
  foster the rapid improvement of retrieval
  algorithms and other applications of EOS data in
  a variety of global weather, process studies, and
  climate applications, just as the ITPP and IAPP
  have done for TOVS and ATOVS data.
• Strategy
• Scientific integrity
• Ease of use - system requirements, portability,
  documentation
• Reliability

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Launched Dec. 18, 1999 1030 am ascending ASTER
Hi-res imager CERES Broadband scanner MISR
Multi-view imager MODIS Multispectral
imager MOPITT Limb sounder
Terra
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Launched May 4, 2002 130 pm descending AIRS
Infrared sounder AMSR-E Microwave scanner AMSU
Microwave scanner CERES Broadband scanner HSB
Microwave sounder MODIS Multispectral imager
Aqua
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Current IMAPP Status

• MODIS products Level 1B and Geolocation
• cloud mask, cloud properties - height,
  temperature, emissivity, phase (Collect 5)
• atmospheric profiles (T, q, tpw, total ozone,
  stability) (Collect 5)
• aerosol optical depth
• sea surface temperatures
• near-infrared water vapor
• MODIS utilities
• de-striping band 26 (correction for band 5
  spectral leak)
• creating true color images tutorial
• AIRS products - Level 1B
• AIRS/AMSU/HSB Level 1 (with JPL)
• AIRS Level 2 profiles
• AMSR-E products RSS L1B software
• Rain rate, rain type (B05 algorithm)

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Local Applications
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EOS Direct Broadcast Groundstation
TeraScan SX-EOS 4.4 m antenna First data
acquired 2000/08/18
Overpass prediction 2000/10/13
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http//eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu/modisdirect/
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• CIMSS Near-Real Time IMAPP automated processing
• Applications
• MODIS L1B and science product validation
• Testing of MODIS operational product changes
• Quick look images for identifying regions of
  spectral or meteorological interest
• Support for field experiments
• Public Service
• Channel simulation for future instruments
  (Advanced Baseline Imager - 2012)
  http//cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/abi/airs_broadcast
  /aniairs.html
• Testbed for new algorithms

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Example IMAPP Aqua Quicklook Image Southwest US
19 Aug. 2003
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Simon Hooks (JPL) MkIV Raft on Lake Tahoe
withRadiometer, Meteorological Station and
Temperature LoggersMODIS radiances are sent
automatically for every Tahoe pass
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IMAPP Terra/Aqua MODIS Level 2 Products Automatic
Production at SSEC
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MODIS RGB Composite Red B1, Blue B4, Green B3
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MODIS Cloud Mask Product
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MODIS Aerosol Product
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MODIS Atmospheric Profiles Product
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MODIS Sea Surface Temperature Product
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Hurricane Rita 1920 UTC 21 September 2005
UW/SSEC
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AMSR-E Rain Rate Product 28 August 2005 0722 UTC
Hurricane Katrina
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UW MODIS Images Appear in NASAs Popular Earth
Observatory
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Stoughton Wisconsin Tornado 18 August 2005
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Tornado Destruction Path as Seen from Aqua MODIS
19 August 2005
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Wisconsin Tire Fire 19 July 2005
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Simulated Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) 3.9
micron Brightness Temperature from AIRS UW Direct
Broadcast IMAPP Real time product Aqua 8
September 2003 2021 UTC
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Retrieval Temperature K at 500 hPa IMAPP L2
AIRS ECMWF Operational DAAC
With Cloudmask

• CIMSS Level 2
• Single FOV
• Clear Sky Only

ECMWF ANL Interpolated to AIRS grid

• Operational AIRS RTV
• AMSU footprint size (3x3 AIRS FOVs) only
• Cloud cleared for this example. Retrievals not
  confined to just clear sky.

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Global Applications
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EOS Direct Broadcast Sites
86 sites were known in Nov. 2003 Now more than 100
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• Global MODIS IMAPP Community
• Applications based upon responses to IMAPP
  survey
• Hartbeeshoek, South Africa - CSIR Satellite
  Application Centre - MODIS Level 1B used for
  generation of surface reflectance, NDVI , BRDF,
  LST, SST
• Plymouth, United Kingdom - Plymouth Marine
  Laboratory - MODIS Level 1 and Level 2 cloud
  product, cloud mask, and atmospheric profiles
  products used as a deliverable for the EC funded
  CLOUDMAP2 project which finished in January 2004
• Taiwan, ROC - Center for Space and Remote
  Sensing Research, National Central University -
  MODIS Level 1 and Level 2 products used for
  studying atmospheric temperature, ozonosphere,
  sea surface temperature, chlorophyl, ocean color,
  vegetation indices and forest fires

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Cloud Top Temperature Plymouth Marine Lab, UK
10 October 2003 1157 UTC
http//www.npm.ac.uk/rsg/projects/cloudmap2/
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• Global MODIS IMAPP Applications Continued
• Sao Paolo, Brazil - National Institute for
  Space Research INPE - MODIS Level 1B used to
  serve INPE/CPTEC (Centro de Previsão de Tempo e
  Estudos Climáticos), IBAMA and other Governmental
  institutions
• Missoula, Montana - US Forest Service - MODIS
  Level 1B and eventually aerosol product used for
  fire monitoring
• Alice Springs, Canberra and Hobart, Australia -
  Australian Centre for Remote Sensing - IMAPP
  MODIS Level 1 and, in test right now, Level 2
  cloud mask and cloud properties. These products
  are being utilized in various environmental
  applications.
• McMurdo, Antarctica NOAA/NESDIS IMAPP MODIS
  L1B and Level 2 Products used for real-time polar
  wind generation and to aid Antarctic forecasters.

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MODIS Product Page, INPE/CPTEC, Sao Paolo, Brazil
http//satelite.cptec.inpe.br/htmldocs/modis/modis
_dsa.htm
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CPTEC Terra IMAPP Cloud Top Temperatures 26
September 2005
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Sentinel Hotspots (Department of Defence, CSIRO
Geoscience Australia)
http//www.sentinel.csiro.au/mapping/viewer.htm
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http//stratus.ssec.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/db_main?site
mcmurdo
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• Global MODIS IMAPP Applications Continued
• Chinese Academy of Science -Institute of
  Geography and Resources Research, MODIS Level 1
  and Level 2 products used for a variety of
  applications
• Tromso, Norway - Kongsburg Satellite Services -
  MODIS Level 1 and Level 2 products distributed
  with ground stations world wide for a variety of
  environmental applications
• Moscow, Russia - ScanEx Research and
  Development Center - MODIS Level 1, and Level 2
  cloud mask and SST used for a wide range of land
  and sea surface monitoring tasks
• Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA - EROS Data
  Center - MODIS Level 1 products are reprojected
  for users on the AmericaView project, a national
  and state partnership to enable remote sensing
  education, training, and applications

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IMAPP MODIS Product Page, Moscow, Russia Use
IMAPP MODIS cloud mask as a means of choosing
scenes for users
http//eostation.scanex.ru/data/cellquery.html
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• Global MODIS IMAPP Community
• continued
• Benevento, Italia - Mediterranean Agency for
  Remote Sensing (MARS). Entire suite of IMAPP
  Level 1 and Level 2 products used in a number of
  scientific and environmental applications.
• Many, many MODIS applications in mainland China
• Wenjian ZHANG presented many of these at last
  International EOS DB meeting 17-20 November
  2003
• Cloud and aerosol applications
• Disaster monitoring (Floods and Fires)
• Snow and ice monitoring
• Others
• How Many IMAPP users are there?
• Not sure since no registration is required to
  get software. We do know there are users in
  every continent including Antarctica.

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http//www.marsdb.it/
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MODIS RGB Image and 11-12µm BTD Image Super Dust
Storm Outbreak China 7 April 2001
R Channel 1, 645µm G Channel 4,
555µm B Channel 3, 469µm
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• Other known IMAPP applications
• Timeliness makes products useful to
  Environmental Forecasters
• USA Weather Service forecasters use near
  real-time high spatial resolution imagery and
  products (NASA SPORT).
• Sea Surface Temperatures used for ingestion into
  high resolution real-time analysis and forecast
  system for Melbourne, Florida NWS (sea breeze,
  coastal precip mapping)
• MODIS Aerosol and Cloud products used in IDEA
  project to aid in Air Quality Forecasts by the US
  EPA.
• High spatial and/or spectral resolution makes the
  products useful for Environmental Monitoring
• Lake monitoring (coast, ice) in North America
  for shipping interests, etc.
• Great Lakes True Color GeoTiff used by NOAA
  Coast Watch
• Canadian Ice Service
• Water quality monitoring - University of
  Wisconsin
• Other known users
• Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California,
  USA
• Space Research Group and Department of
  Meteorology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
• Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc,
  Lexington Massachusetts, USA
• Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium, University
  of North Dakota, USA
• National Center for Environmental Prediction
  (NCEP), NOAA, USA

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Canadian Ice Service Example http//ice-glaces.ec
.gc.ca/
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ASSIMILATION OF MULTI-SATELLITE HIGH-RESOLUTION
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES FOR A REAL-TIME LOCAL
ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING SYSTEM

• Dr. Steven Lazarus, Corey G. Calvert
• Florida Institute of Technology
• The NWS Melbourne runs a combined analysis and
  forecasting system called ARPS/ADAS (Advanced
  Regional Prediction System) ((ARPS) Data
  Analysis System) (ADAS)
• The forecast component ARPS runs four times per
  day at 3, 9, 15 and 21 UTC at horizontal
  resolution of 4 km
• The analysis component ADAS is run operationally
  in near-real time every 15 minutes
• The model SSTs are initialized using NCEPs
  Real-Time Global Sea Surface Temperature
  (RTG-SST) analysis which has a horizontal
  resolution of a approximately 50 km

(10 times more coarse than model it is
initializing!)
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Background

• Shallow convection is often seen along the
  gradient that separates a cold tongue of water
  from the warm Gulf Stream

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MODIS 1842 UTC SST
Global .5 degree SST
Sea Surface Temperatures 4 April 2005
Bratseth analysis combining the RTG-SST and MODIS
data.
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SST Comparison MODIS and Global Gridded 10
December 2005 - 28 N Latitude
Confident Clear Cloud Mask Threshold
Probably Clear Cloud Mask Threshold
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IMAPP Direct Broadcast Products Used by SPoRT

• NASAs Short-term Prediction Research and
  Transition (SPoRT) Center applies EOS
  measurements and Earth science research to
  improve the accuracy of short-term (0-24 hr)
  weather prediction at the regional and local
  scale.
• SPoRT is a research to operations program
• MODIS and AMSR-E IMAPP products are provided to 6
  US National Weather Service Forecast Offices
  (HUN, BMX, OHX, TFX, MFL, and MOB) in real-time
  for analysis in AWIPS to address specific
  forecast issues

• convective initiation
• morning minimum temperatures
• fog and low cloud detection
• sea/land breeze convection/temperatures
• coastal precipitation mapping
• others

SPoRT http//weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/
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IMAPP Direct Broadcast Products at WFOs

• All SPoRT data provided to USA Weather Service
  Field Offices in AWIPS
• MODIS high resolution visible / infrared imagery
  from Aqua and Terra
• 4 times / day 30-45 minutes latency
• 8-10 channels simulating NPOESS and GOES-R
  capabilities
• TPW, cloud mask and cloud height, and stability
• IMAPP Level 1 radiances used by NASA to generate
  additional products for WFOs color composites,
  cloud/fog products, LST imagery, and snow maps
• AMSR-E products to coastal offices
• 15-20 minute latency
• rain rate and convective fraction
• Level 1 AMSR-E Tbbs used by NASA to
• generate additional products over the
• ocean (TPW, ocean wind speed, SST)

• Future use of real-time AIRS
• radiance data from IMAPP for
• WRF data assimilation studies
• improved forecasts to forecast offices

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http//weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/sport_observati
ons.html
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http//nimbus.elte.hu/kutatas/sat/sat_mds_pic-en.h
tml
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• Future IMAPP applications
• AIRS Sounding System Software
• L2 retrieval products
• T/q retrievals, Total Precipitable Water Vapor
• Single pixel and 3x3 fov
• Cloud Detection
• Cloud Properties (Height, Emissivity, Effective
  Radius, Particle Habit, Optical Thickness)
• Cloud Liquid Water
• AMSU Precipitation
• Combined MODIS/AIRS products
• MODIS L2 products
• Surface Reflectance
• Suspended Sediment Concentration
• Cloud Optical Properties
• Scene Classification
• Snow Cover/Lake Ice

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• Future IMAPP applications (Continued)
• AMSR-E
• Soil Moisture
• Utilities
• Utility to visualize L1B and L2 IMAPP products
• hydra
• Utilities to share data with other users
• DODS server
• ADDE server
• Utilities to collocate MODIS/AIRS pixels
• Corrected reflectance tutorial
• Workshops
• More IMAPP remote sensing workshops planned
  (Africa? South America?)

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Hydra Visualization Tool
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IRS / MODIS synergistic retrievals
Studies using AIRS
data convolved to MODIS 7.3 ?m bandwidth
AIRS Clear Partly Cloudy Cleared BT
AIRS Clear Sky BT
MODIS Band 28 Clear Sky BT
Wu, X., J. Li, W. Zhang, and F. Wang, 2005
Atmospheric Profile Retrieval With AIRS Data and
Validation at ARM CART Site, Advances in
Atmospheric Sciences, (accepted).
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• Summary
• IMAPP is providing the international community
  with the means to process Terra MODIS and Aqua
  MODIS and AIRS data independently. Level 2 MODIS
  products are being used for a variety of
  applications internationally (including NWP).
• MODIS L2 packages (Cloud Mask, Cloud Properties,
  Cloud Phase, Atmospheric Profiles, Aerosol, SST,
  Near-infrared Water Vapor), AIRS Atmospheric
  Profiles and AMSR-E Rain Rate are available
  today.
• Additional MODIS and AIRS L2 products are under
  development, including MODIS surface reflectance
  product and AIRS/MODIS combined products
• We intend to follow on from Terra and Aqua to
  NPP and NPOESS.

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Jan. 2005 Case Study

• Fire hotspot mapping
• On 11 Jan. 2005 a major fire emergency took place
  on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, killing
  9 people.
• Sentinel was used in fire-fighting operations to
  help prevent even greater loss of life and
  property destruction
• Over the past several years, in numerous fire
  emergencies, Sentinel Hotspots has come to be
  relied upon by fire fighting agencies nationwide.
• The Sentinel Fire Mapping website is regarded as
  a service of National Significance.