# Presentation: 739008

## MODIS Science Team Meeting

- Paula S. Bontempi
- MODIS Program Scientist
- Earth Science Division
- Science Mission Directorate
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration

- 31 October 2006

## NASA Shared Services 

**Institutional Planning and Investments**
**Office of infrastructure & Administration**
**Office of Human Capital Management **
**Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity**
**Office of Security and Program Protection **
**Office of Procurement**
**Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization**

## What’s New/FY07 Budget

- FY07 – CR through February 2007 (March/April ?)
- Mission Science Team Reductions – no information at this point
- In FY06:
- Terra, Aqua Science Data Analysis – 5% (0%)
- Terra, Aqua Algorithm Refinement – 7.5% (0%)
- MODIS Team Lead – 12.5% (3%)
- Solution: savings from incremental funding (FY07 installment) – programmed
- Contracts:  Theresa Mautino
- FY07 – exercising 4th year option on Team Lead budget (reductions are possible)

## EOS Recompete

- 322 proposals received
- March Amendment reduced funding amount from $30M/yr to $25M/yr
- Unclear whether further reductions will take place
- Panels in January/February 2007
- Renewal dates – May-July
- Three categories
- 3.1 - EOS Instrument-specific Algorithm Refinement and Cal/Val Activities - 60
- 3.2 - Algorithm Refinement and Cal/Val for Earth System Data Records - 93
- 3.3 - Integrated Science Data Analysis -211

## Mission Extension/Senior Review Process

- Effort lead by Chuck Holmes at NASA HQ
- Mimics former Space Science process for extending missions beyond the prime life
- 2-year cycle
- Up for renewal:
- Terra (CERES, MOPITT, MISR, ASTER, MODIS)
- Aqua (AIRS, MODIS, AMSR-E, CERES)
- Steve Volz (NASA HQ) will be talking this morning

## Future Research....

**Prior MODIS Team Challenge - reap the full scientific benefits of MODIS, Terra, Aqua, & EOS**
- Make/keep existing data products the best they can be (3.1 on EOS Rec.) plus ESDRs (3.2 on EOS Rec.)
- Develop new data products to enable important, new scientific and applied uses
- Land ATBD for Vegetation Moisture Content
- Utilize MODIS (and EOS) data products to create new scientific understanding of planet Earth and how it is changing – and new applications of this knowledge for decision support

## Outcome of the Challenge – Future Research

- The Continuity and Evolution of Earth System Science
- How does MODIS/EOS fit into a changing world?
- NASA Mission:
**Strategic Goal 3 (6 total)**:  Develop a balanced overall program of science, exploration, and aeronautics consistent with the redirection of the human spaceflight program to focus on exploration.
- Sub-goal 3A (7 total):  Use Earth-orbiting satellites to study global change and enable better predictions of climate, weather, and natural hazards

## Outcome of the Challenge – Future Research

- The Continuity and Evolution of Earth System Science
- NASA is in the process of advance planning at Directorate (Congressional science plan), Earth Science Division, Focus Area levels (CC&E; Atm. Composition)
- Earth Science is changing from mission science teams to measurement-oriented science teams (ESDRs)
- Oceans up and running, land in development, atmosphere status
- Modeling, Analysis, Prediction Program (Don Anderson)
- Development of and Linkage to Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) – land, ocean, atm
- U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy/National Academy of Sciences – R2O
- NRC NASA/NOAA/USGS Decadal Survey – recommendations in early 2007
- Merged products (NPP); new products (land)

## Issues for MODIS Team

- More interdisciplinary algorithm development approaches, Terra/Aqua intersensor science; share expertise
- Certain algorithm developers and validation investigators should address important deficiencies in key data products (e.g., cloud mask, atmospheric correction)
- Algorithm developers need to represent broader community needs by working with them
- Algorithm refinement PIs need to provide compelling justification for the importance/utility of the algorithm improvements and/or new data products
- ATBD Development and Reviews
- Future ramp down of MCST
- MODIS Land, Ocean, & Atmosphere Groups work interactions across the team

## New EOS Data Review Needed

**We need:**
- A plan for review of ATBDs for the new and alternative EOS algorithms – after 2-3 years
- Assess quality and importance of data product suites (and their components)
- Prioritize EOS data products relative to each other and relative to other needs of the community they serve
- Recommend changes, improvements, level of service by data systems and archives
- Must involve community
- Must take into account NASA (or other) resources / program components required to support the products; involve data system and archive management, NASA HQ Focus Area Leads (program/project managers)
- Suggestions Welcome

## Measurement Teams

**Continuing/evolving measurement streams, there will be one science team, competed periodically, that provides scientific guidance to present and future missions and for the utilization of past data sets**
- Support and focus on Earth System Data Records
- Terrestrial community white papers
- One data system to ensure a “seamless” time series
- Scientific guidance and priorities must represent broad user community
- Terra and Aqua Science Team Meetings?
- NPP and NPOESS VIIRS

## MODIS Team Meeting – Oct/Nov 2006

- Update on “new” team (PI) progress, integration
- Algorithm Refinement and Validation
- Science Data Analysis Results
- Issues encountered
- Oceans – data processing, vicarious calibration, data merging, data product workshops, validation protocols
- Land – measurement team spin-up (ESDR WP), C5 update, Landsat gap, ATBD review
- Atmosphere – calibration, cloud radiative properties, future planning, aerosols, DB, interdisc. science, A-train comparisons
- MCST – land/ocean/atm, cal/val, striping, earthshine, cross-sensor calibration