PPT-Landsat Advisory Group Update

April 2 2014 CoChairs Kass Green and Roger Mitchell Landsat Advisory Group Established in 2012 as a standing subcommittee of the NGAC Purpose The LAG provides advice to the Federal Government through the NGAC on the requirements objectives and actions of the Landsat Program as they apply to continued delivery of societal benefits for the Nation and the global Earth observation community . Fanjingshan. National Nature Reserve:. “What measurable environmental changes have taken place after implementing payment for ecosystem programs?” . How reliably are we able to measure canopy fraction cover (CFC) and change in CFC (ΔCFC) within FNNR based on . MODIS . Downloads. Data Sources for GIS in Water Resources. by Ayse . Kilic. , David R. Maidment, and David G. Tarboton . GIS in Water Resources. Fall 2012. Landsat. – 30 m x 30 m pixels. 1972 – present. November 2014 lava flow on Kilauea (USGS Volcano Observatory). (. http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov. ) . Thermal Remote Sensing. Distinguishing materials on the ground using differences in emissivity and temperature. A Brief History of Satellite Remote Sensing. Sputnik I Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Worlds first man-made satellite. Size of a beach ball; Weighed about 184 pounds. Sputnik II launched November 3, 1957. September 29, 2015. WGISS 40. USGS Plans for Archive and Distribution of Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imager (MSI) Data. Background. Notional plans are for the USGS to acquire, archive and distribute Sentinel-2 MSI Level-1C (L1C) products. Jeff Dozier – UCSB. NASA Snow Remote Sensing Workshop. Boulder, August 2013. Different concepts in different parts of spectrum. Visible, near-infrared, and infrared. Independent scattering. Weak polarization. Feng Gao, Martha Anderson, Liang Sun, Yang . Yang. , Yun Yang. and . also contributed . by David Roy and his group. Landsat. Science Team Meeting, Virginia Tech, January 12-14, 2016. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Chengquan. Huang. 1,2. . Min Feng. 1,2. , . Joseph O. . Sexton. 1,2. , . Raghuram. . Narasimhan. 1,2. , . Saurabh. . Channan. 1,2. , Jeff . Masek. 3. , Eric . Vermote. 2. , . Feng. Gao. 4. , John Townshend. Near nadir imagers do not provide the multi-angle observations necessary to capture the multi-angle reflective character described by the surface BRDF. Therefore, the Landsat albedo algorithm couples atmospherically corrected 30m Landsat . Landsat Cal/Val Team. Landsat Calibration Meeting, May 2018. Topics. TIRS. Noise. Stability. Vicarious calibration comparison. OLI. Noise. Stability. Relative Calibration. Comparison to Sentinel 2 MSIs. Which bands? . Landsat and . Sentinel. Spectral bands are similar between Landsat and Sentinel, but there are some significant differences. See next slide. Some of the Sentinel bands are narrower than comparable Landsat bands. Tim Newman. Program Coordinator. Land Remote Sensing Program, USGS. Pete Doucette. Associate Program Coordinator. Land Remote Sensing Program, USGS. U.S. Geological Survey . Department of . the . Interior. and . LGAC Status. 21 February 2018. Chris Engebretson, . USGS. engebret@usgs.gov. Doug Daniels, . The Aerospace Corporation. d. ouglas.daniels.ctr@usgs.gov. Topics. Landsat Archive Overview / Distribution Statistics. 1. Meeting Agenda. Welcome – Christine Sullivan, ASSP President. Operations Committee Introduction. SOG Review Update. KPI Goal and 2022 – 2023 Accomplishments. Breakout Session. Reflection of First Year on Advisory Group.