# Presentation: 734458

## Sponsorship
Vince Salomonson and Michael King
The “Beef” (data sets)
MODIS Ocean Group - Norm Kuring & Gene Feldman
MODIS Atmosphere Group - Bill Ridgway
MODIS Land Group - Jacques Descloitres & Jackie Kendall
TRMM - Chris Lynnes
MOPITT - David Edwards
NEO Development
Database and programming - Kevin Ward, SSAI
Interface - Alex McClung & Kevin Ward

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**Sponsorship**
- Vince Salomonson and Michael King
**The “Beef” (data sets)**
- MODIS Ocean Group - Norm Kuring & Gene Feldman
- MODIS Atmosphere Group - Bill Ridgway
- MODIS Land Group - Jacques Descloitres & Jackie Kendall
- TRMM - Chris Lynnes
- MOPITT - David Edwards
**NEO Development**
- Database and programming - Kevin Ward, SSAI
- Interface - Alex McClung & Kevin Ward

_***Credits***_

## NEO’s goal:
To increase demand for and give easy access to NASA remote sensing images and data to facilitate “design at use time” 
Our target audiences are relatively unsophisticated, non-traditional data users
Formal & informal educators
Museum & science center personnel
Professional communicators
Citizen scientists & amateur Earth observers
Their four main reasons to visit NEO
To obtain Earth images for a publication (articles, posters, kiosks, etc.)
To obtain and port images over to analytic tools for formal or informal educational lessons (ICE tool, ImageJ, Multi-spec, etc.)
To obtain and display images in geospatial browsers that enable data layering (World Wind, ArcGIS, GeoFusion, GoogleEarth, etc.)
To browse scenes and then order HDF data with the click of a button

- To increase demand for and give easy access to NASA remote sensing images and data to facilitate “design at use time”
**Our target audiences are relatively unsophisticated, non-traditional data users**
- Formal & informal educators
- Museum & science center personnel
- Professional communicators
- Citizen scientists & amateur Earth observers
**Their four main reasons to visit NEO**
- To obtain Earth images for a publication (articles, posters, kiosks, etc.)
- To obtain and port images over to analytic tools for formal or informal educational lessons (ICE tool, ImageJ, Multi-spec, etc.)
- To obtain and display images in geospatial browsers that enable data layering (World Wind, ArcGIS, GeoFusion, GoogleEarth, etc.)
- To browse scenes and then order HDF data with the click of a button

***Who will come & why?***

## Sample Collaborations with Museums

- Tokyo Science Museum   “GeoCosmos” (~20-foot spherical TV)

- National Museum of Natural History *Forces of Change*

## Conceptual Overview

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**MODIS Discipline Groups’ Science Computing Facilities**

**MODIS**
**Rapid Response System**

- ECHO

**GES DAAC**

**LP DAAC**

**NSIDC DAAC**

***Conceptual Overview***

- Routinely producing, harvesting & indexing of global & regional images

- Credit goes to the MODIS discipline groups & MRR Teams doing the “heavy lifting”

## Initial Offering of Data Products

- Aerosol optical thickness			• Cloud fraction / cloud mask
- Fraction of fine aerosol			• Cloud particle radius
- Water vapor				• Cloud optical thickness
- Carbon monoxide			• Cloud water path
- TRMM Precipitation			• Cloud top temperature
- Stratospheric ozone			• UV Surface Exposure
**Ocean Products**
- Sea surface temperature (day)		• Water-leaving radiance
- AMSR-E SST			• SST Anomaly
- SST Climatology			• Chlorophyll concentration
- NOAA Bathymetry			• Chlorophyll Anomaly
**Land Products**
- Land cover classification			• Land Topography
- Daily surface reflectance			• Land Snow Cover
- Global fire maps			• Sea Ice Cover
- Land surface temp (day & night time)	• 8-day Albedo
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index	• Leaf Area Index

***Initial Offering of Data Products***

- = products in hand

- = products near at hand

- = products planned, but may lag some months

## Image Specs & File Formats

**Spatial resolutions**
- 1 km, 5-minute granules: ~1800 x 1800 pixels
- Global-scale products at 0.1 and 1 degree:  3600 x 1800 pixels
- Platte Carre (cylindrical) is our preferred projection
**Temporal resolutions**
- 1 day, 8 or 16 days, 1 month
**File format**
- 8-bit binary number arrays, grayscale for products
- Natural color is the exception
- Users have the option of accepting our palettes, or devising their own

## Compatible with GoogleEarth

***Compatible with GoogleEarth***

** ****Screen shot**
- MODIS Level 2 SST over New Zealand
- Opacity adjusted in GE
- A good indicator of open compatibility & wide utility of NEO

## Current Status (Nov ’06)

**Recent Developments**
- Ready for public rollout
- Data processing and upload well underway
- Full upload of MODIS Ocean Products
- Partial upload of MODIS Atmosphere Products
- Upload of MODIS Land Products is imminent
- Easy export to GoogleEarth in place
- Export to ICE tool in place
- Subsetting tools and incremental down-sampling tools in place
- Well-rounded “tire kicker” community in place
**Future Developments**
- Amateur’s Guide to Earth Observation
- Widen the circle of data inclusion
- Plans for refinement of the search tools
- Linkage to Earth Observatory’s data set animation function
- Spatio-temporal browser per data product

## NEO Beta-2 Interface

_**http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov**_