# Presentation: 524827

## MODIS Science Team Meeting

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

- 22 March 2005

## Slide 2

## Science Mission Directorate

**NASA**
**Management Office**

**Administrative Processes**

**Education Officer**

**NASA Centers**

**Business**
**Management**

**Solar**
**System**

**Earth-Sun**
**System**

**Mission & Systems Management**

**Associate Administrator (AA)**

**Deputy AA**

**Deputy AA**
**For Management**

**Deputy AA**
**For Programs**

*Mission Support*

*Mission *

*Mission Enabling*

**Universe**

**JPL**

**ARC**

**GSFC**

_**Councils**_**	**
**Leadership Council**
**Science Management Council**
**Program Management Council**
**Operations Council**

**Science Mission Directorate**

- A. Diaz

- G. Asrar

- A. McNally

- O. Figueroa

- R. Parker

- C. Sorrels

- A. Kinney

- A. Dantzler (act.)

- M. Cleave (act.)

- R. Maizel

- M. Luther

- C. Elachi

- E. Weiler

- S. Hubbard

**AAA/Strategy, Policy & Int’l**
**AAA/Science**
**AAA/Technology**
**AAA/Exploration Mission Int. **
**Sr. Policy Advisor**

## Earth-Sun System Division

- Earth-Sun System

- Director:  Mary Cleave (Act.)
- Deputy:   Richard Fisher

- Research Sciences

- Applied Sciences

- Flight Programs

- Director:  Jack Kaye
- Deputies:   Lucia Tsaoussi
- 	 & Bill Wagner

- Director:  Ron Birk
- Deputy:   Martin Frederick

- Director:  Charles Gay
- Deputy:   Ted Hammer

## Proposed New Advisory Committee Structure

**NASA Science Advisory Committee (SAC)**

**Earth-Sun System Subcommittee (ESSS)**

**Solar System Subcommittee (SSS)**

**Universe Subcommittee (US)**

**SMD and NSAC may wish to establish ad hoc task groups in cross-cutting areas; these will report to NASA via the NSAC**

## What’s New/FY05 Budget

- Earmarks, Exploration Vision
- Mission Science Team Reductions
- Originally:
- Terra, Aqua Science Data Analysis – 5%
- Terra, Aqua Algorithm Refinement – 7.5%
- MODIS Team Lead – 12.5%
- Solution: savings from incremental funding (FY07 installment, ROSES impact)
- FY06 requested vs. enacted budget

## 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
- Proposal submitted by 16 March 2005
- Up for review:
- Terra (CERES, MOPITT, MISR, ASTER, MODIS)
- Review by Panel of Peers – outside NASA
- 25-26 April 2005
- Mission Operations and Calibration and Validation

## MODIS Team Meeting in July 2004:  The Challenge

**Reap the full scientific benefits of MODIS, Terra, Aqua, & EOS**
- Make/keep existing data products the best they can be
- Develop new data products to enable important, new scientific and applied uses
- Utilize MODIS (and Terra, 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

- The Continuity and Evolution of Earth System Science
- How does MODIS fit into a changing world?
- NASA Mission: understand and protect our home planet
- NASA is in the process of transforming itself to implement the President’s Exploration Vision
- Strategic Roadmapping Effort taking place
- SRM-9 – Earth Science
- Earth Science is changing from mission science teams to measurement-oriented science teams (CDRs)
- Oceans up and running, land in development, atmosphere status
- Modeling and Analysis 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

## Issues for MODIS Team

- More interdisciplinary algorithm development approaches; 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
- 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 Climate Data Records
- One data system to ensure a “seamless” time series
- Scientific guidance and priorities must represent broad user community
- CDR Session tomorrow – L. Tsaoussi (HQ) – Earth Science Data Records

## From Mission to Measurement Teams

- Ocean Team has already begun this change
- “Land” (Vegetation?) is poised to begin
- One or several measurements, what ones
- Spatial resolutions:  moderate (1 km) and high (30 m)
- Surface hydrological and geological measurements?
- Atmosphere Team status?

## MODIS Team Meeting – March 2005

- Update on “new” team (PI) progress, integration
- Algorithm Refinement and Validation
- Science Data Analysis Results
- Issues encountered
- Oceans – data processing, cal/val, annual reviews, meas. team (PI) progress, future planning
- Land – measurement team spin-up (CDRs, ESDRs), instrument update, prod. distribution/archive, future planning
- Atmosphere – calibration, cloud radiative properties, future planning, aerosols, DB, interdisc. science, atm. correction
- MCST – Session Tuesday evening – land/ocean/atm, cal/val, striping, earthshine, cross-sensor calibration