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## MQUALS 2000 Campaigns 

- MQUALS 2000 Campaigns

## MQUALS Objectives

**MQUALS Objectives**

- Provide aerial platform for validation
- Transportable and rugged package
- Scale up field data to MODIS and ETM+ 	  	*ground > airplane > ETM+ > MODIS*
- Document surface condition (photos, video)
- Land cover  and land-use information
- Derive atmosphere-free, top-of-canopy reflectances, vegetation indices, and albedo

## MQUALS Concept 

**MQUALS Concept**

## MQUALS Instrumentation

**MQUALS**** ****Instrumentation**

**GPS Receiver **
**ASD Radiometer**
**Digital video **
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## 2000 Data Collection 

**2000 Data Collection**

## North America Core Sites

**North America Core Sites**

**Maricopa**

**Cascades**

**Jornada**

**Glacier N P**

**Konza Prairie**

**Sevilleta**

**Harvard Forest**

## Landsat ETM+  May 9, 2000 (Path/Row: 33/37: DOY 130)

- Landsat ETM+  May 9, 2000 (Path/Row: 33/37: DOY 130)

**Enlarged Area                      La Jornada**

**White Sand**

**Rio Grande**

**JER**

**Flight Line**

## Land Cover Types at Jornada

**Land Cover Types at Jornada**

- Transition

- Mesquite

- Grassland

- Ground View

- Aerial View

## DyCam Series, La Jornada NM

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## Exotech Reflectance Profile at Jornada (May) 

**Exotech Reflectance Profile at Jornada (May)**** **

## Exotech Reflectance Profile at Jornada 

**Exotech Reflectance Profile at Jornada**

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## MQUALS, YokeReflectances and VI’s (Jornada)

- MQUALS, YokeReflectances and VI’s (Jornada)

**MQUALS Exotech**
** ****Ground (Yoke) Exotech**

## ETM+  and MQUALS (All sites from La Jornada)

- ETM+  and MQUALS (All sites from La Jornada)

**Mean Values**

## MQUALS vs. MODIS La Jornada, NM

- MQUALS vs. MODIS La Jornada, NM

**Single-day (nadir)**

**16-day composite**

## South America Core Sites

**South America Core Sites**

**Tapajos and Brasilia are LBA Ecology Core Sites**
**Tapajos is Tropical Forest**
**Brasilia is Cerrado (Savanna)**

**Tapajos**

**Brasilia**

## Brasilia National Park (May & July)

**Brasilia National Park ****(May & July)**

## Land Cover SitesBrazil Cerrado

**Land Cover Sites****Brazil Cerrado**

- Cerrado Grassland

- Shrub Cerrado

- Cerrado Woodland

- Wooded Cerrado

**Gallery Forest**

- Ground View

- Aerial View

## RC Helicopter Experiment 2000  (Dr. Yoshiaki Honda)

**RC Helicopter Experiment 2000****  (Dr. Yoshiaki Honda)**

## TRR (Audobon),  June 3  2000

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## Distribution of Data

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## Web Site Information Organization

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## Web Site Information Organization

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## Conclusions

- MQUALS is an adaptable package for performing low-altitude validation
- Provides variety of data, e.g. images, radiometric data, and albedo
- Offers quick response and fast turnaround
- Useful tool in up-scaling of in-situ measurements to MODIS and ETM+ resolutions

## MQUALS Presentations

**MQUALS Presentations**
**Fall AGU Meeting, S.F.,  Dec. 15-19, 2000**

- Gao X, Huete, A.R., Rodriguez, E.P., Miura T., Didan K., Keita F., and Honda Y., “Biophysical and radiometric validation of MODIS Vegetation Indices at La Jornada Experiment Range”, Eos Trans. AGU, 81(48), Fall Meet. Suppl., 2000 (Invited).
-  Ferreira, L.G., Yoshioka, H., Huete, A.R., and Sano, E.E., 2000, “The Response of MODIS Vegetation Indices to the Brazilian Cerrado Seasonal Contrast: An Analysis within the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia”, EOS, Transactions, AGU (Vol. 81, No. 48, p. 207).
-  Yoshioka, H., Ferreira, L.G., Huete, A.R., Sano, E.E., and Shimabukuro, Y., 2000, “A Validation Strategy of Vegetation Indices from Satellite-Based Sensors over two LBA Core Sites”, EOS, Transactions, AGU (Vol. 81, No. 48, p. 242).

## IGARSS/ SPIE/ LBA (2000)

- Gao X. and Huete A.R., “Validation of MODIS Land Surface Reflectance and Vegetation Indices with Multi-scale High Resolution Data”, IGARSS 2000, July 24-28, Honolulu, Hawaii (Poster)
- Ferreira, L.G., Huete, A.R., Yoshioka, H., and Sano, E.E., 2000, “Preliminary analysis of MODIS vegetation indices over the LBA sites in the Cerrado Region, Brazil”. IGARSS 2000, July 24-28, Honolulu, Hawaii (Poster)
- Alfredo Huete, Kamel Didan, Tomoaki Miura, Hiroki Yoshioka, Laerte Ferreira, Xiang Gao, and Karim Batchily (2000), Validation of the MODIS vegetation indices over a global set of test sites: preliminary results. The EOS/SPIE Symposium on Remote Sensing, September 2000, Barcelona, Spain.
- Ferreira, L.G., Yoshioka, L.G., Huete, A.R., and Sano, E.E., 2000, “Assessing the Use of the MODIS Vegetation Indices for Vegetation Mapping in the Brazilian Cerrado”, Abstract, First LBA Scientific Conference (p. 223).

## Other Conferences (LBA and SPIE)

- Alfredo Huete, Kamel Didan, Tomoaki Miura, Hiroki Yoshioka, Laerte Ferreira, Xiang Gao, and Karim Batchily (2000), Validation of the MODIS vegetation indices over a global set of test sites: preliminary results. The EOS/SPIE Symposium on Remote Sensing, September 2000, Barcelona, Spain.
- Ferreira, L.G., Yoshioka, L.G., Huete, A.R., and Sano, E.E., 2000, “Assessing the Use of the MODIS Vegetation Indices for Vegetation Mapping in the Brazilian Cerrado”, Abstract, First LBA Scientific Conference (p. 223).

## Peer-review Journals

- Gao X., Huete, A.R., Rodriguez, E.P., Miura T., Didan K., Keita F., and Honda Y. (2001), Biophysical and radiometric validation of MODIS Vegetation Indices at La Jornada Experiment Range, Remote Sens. Environ.  (in preparation).
- Ferreira,  L., Yoshioka, H.,  Huete, A., Sano, E., 2001, The Response of MODIS Vegetation Indices to the Brazilian Cerrado Seasonal Contrast: An Analysis within the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (in preparation)
- Miura, T., Huete, A. R., Keita, F., Batchily, A. K., Yoshioka, H., and Gao, X. (2001), Reflectance Calibration of the MQUALS Multispectral Digital Camera, *Journal of Arid Environment *(in preparation).