# Presentation: 080699

## The NASA Direct Readout and LCLUC Program

- Garik Gutman,
- LCLUC Program Manager,
- Program Scientist for Landsat/EO1/Terra/DB
- NASA Headquarters
- Washington, DC

## Benevento, Italy – Oct.’05

## Benevento, Italy – Oct.’05

## Slide 4

## NASA Direct Broadcast Program  

- Supported development of Direct Readout Capabilities from NASA EOS/MODIS
- Development and provision of DR code, User Guides and Algorithm Documentation
- NPP/VIIRS is more for operational users than EOS
- IPO provides support for developing DR capabilities
- Interest from users in transitioning the NPP/VIIRS Environmental Data Records and NASA Science Algorithms to the DR community as they mature
- Seeking data continuity with MODIS

## Increasing Number of MODIS Direct Broadcast Sites

**Increasing Number of MODIS Direct Broadcast Sites**

-  82 plus Direct Readout sites around the world for Terra/Aqua DB downlink.
- Web-based MODIS fire servers in Australia, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Europe, Russia; there are recent requests for support from India, Mongolia, Malaysia

## NASA Direct Broadcast Program

- Interested in fostering self organization within the DR community
- Sharing experience
- Developing observation requirements for future missions
- Identifying community DR standards and protocols
- Participating in product validation activities
- An international Land DR Community of Practice is currently being developed in the framework of GOFC/GOLD for the moderate resolution sensors
- Building on AVHRR and MODIS experience
- Adapting the MODIS science algorithms for DR use
- Preparing for VIIRS
- Encouraging other space agencies and sensors to provide DR capability

## The Land DR Workshop (Mexico, Oct 2007)

- The NASA DR Lab should serve as a central portal for land algorithms/code and data products from MODIS and VIIRS; and help coordinate the development of priority DR products, which are currently unavailable in the DR domain (e.g. burned area, LAI, NPP, etc.)
- Establishing/formalizing an international Land DR coordination body
- Develop regional DR networks
- Help resolve science and operational issues affecting the international DR community
- Specifically, this coordination group should “promote the development of DR capability form the international _**moderate**__ resolution_ assets”

## What’s In a Name?

- Advanced _**Very High**__ __**Resolution**_ Radiometer (AVHRR)
_**Moderate Resolution**_ Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
-  both are actually referred to as “_**Coarse resolution**_” by... ?
- Then what is Landsat?
- _High resolution_  - 1-5 m

- “Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil
- But everyone knew her as Nancy.”
-           “Rocky Raccoon” by Paul McCartney

_**moderate**__ __**resolution**_

## Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program

- LCLUC is an interdisciplinary scientific theme within NASA’s Earth Science program. The ultimate vision of this program is ***to develop*** ***the capability for ******periodic global inventories of land use and land cover from space*****, *****to develop the scientific understanding and models necessary to simulate the processes taking place, and to evaluate the consequences of observed and predicted changes***
- http://lcluc.hq.nasa.gov/

## Program Management

- Chris Justice,
- U.Maryland

- Garik Gutman
- NASA HQ

## LCLUC: Drivers of Disturbance/Stress

- Natural Drivers
- Natural hazards (fires, droughts, floods, hurricanes, landslides)
- Invasive species
- Climate
- Anthropogenic Drivers
- Agricultural changes
- Landscape modification, e.g. urbanization
- Forest clearing, logging & fires
- Grazing by domestic animals

- Socio-Economic Drivers
- Technological change and macro-economic transformations
- Political economy and institutional change
- Values, attitudes, beliefs, individual and household behavior
- Human population dynamics

## LCLUC Consequences/Impacts

- Forestry
- Agriculture
- Wetlands and coastal zone
- Water resources and their quality
- Carbon storage and release
- Habitat degradation and fragmentation
- Atmospheric processes

## NASA LCLUC-relevant Missions

_**Terra**_

_***Aqua***_

_**Landsat**__** **__**7**_

- NASA LCLUC-relevant Missions

- 4/15/99		       	12/18/99

- 5/3/02

_** **__**EO-1**_

_**SRTM**_

- 2/11/00		           11/21/00

_*Exploratory Missions*_** ****- **Exploration of Specific Earth System Processes and Parameters and Demonstration of Technologies

## Program Make-up

- Total ~60 projects => more than 200 people
- LCLUC Monitoring/Modeling
- LCLUC/Carbon Cycle
- LCLUC/Water Cycle
- LCLUC/Climate/Environment/Biodiversity

- http://lcluc.hq.nasa.gov/

## Support of Regional Initiatives

- LBA: Regional Field Campaign in Amazon
- CARPE: Central African Regional Project on the Environment in Congo Basin (with US AID)
- MAIRS
- NEESPI

## Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS)

- the most active human development with a history of more than 5000 years civilization and highest population density of the world
- the most rapid development in last decades and is expected to continue rapid development in the incoming century
- human activities of the monsoon Asia region have and will have significant impacts on the environmental conditions, not only regionally but also globally

## Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI)

- International, multi-agency program for Earth science research in northern Eurasia focused on _ecosystem-climate interactions_
- Almost a quarter of the global land, representing most of the existing geo-botanic zones except for tropical; multi-disciplinary program covering basic terrestrial, environmental disciplines
- An important area of the globe with early indications of the global climate change
- Challenges: many countries, many languages, different mentalities, remote locations
- Advantages: plenty of data, talents; existing  infrastructure

- NEESPI

## NEESPI-MAIRS Overlap

**NEESPI-MAIRS Overlap**

- NEESPI

## NEESPI Participation

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**NEESPI Participation**

**Red**** dots:  Principal Investigators **
**Blue**** dots: Co-Investigators                                  **
**Green**** dots: Collaborators****                                          **
**Squares****: Focus Research Centers and     Science Data Support Centers****                                    **

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**18 institutions in Moscow participate in 21 projects**

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**6 institutions in Beijing participate in 5 projects**

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- ~400 scientists  ~200 institutions  >100 projects >30 countries

## NASA NEESPI Science

- Carbon Cycle
- 3 projects (first year)
- LCLUC (Hydrology)
- 7 projects (final year)
- LCLUC (Climate, Environmental Impacts)
- 6 projects (mid-term)
- Terrestrial Hydrology
- 6 projects (mid-term)
- ACCESS (Data Systems Program)
- 1 project (final year)
- Interdiscplinary Program (Biodiversity)
- 2 projects (mid-term)
- IPY – 3 projects (first year)
- Total  $6M per year,
- ~30 projects

- 	Special issue in Global Planetary Change
**http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09218181**

- http://neespi.org

## NEESPI

- MAIRS

## Thailand: An important Asian crossroads for remote sensing

- THEOS
- Direct Readout facility
- UNEP ESCAP
- AIT
- Academia

## Looking into the Future

- Both MODIS (Terra and Aqua) instruments are over their planned mission life (5 yrs)
- In 2010 VIIRS on NPP/NPOESS
- Need preparation by the DR community
- Need data overlap with MODIS for continuity (MODIS land products  similar VIIRS environmental data records)

## Mid-Decadal Global Land Survey GLS2005

- Develop a global orthorectified dataset from Landsat or Landsat-like observations based on measurements during 2004-2007
- Use Landsat-7 composites as primary source, Landsat-5 ground stations data to complement, ASTER to fill the remaining gaps, EO-1/ALI  over islands
- USGS lead Phase I – data compilation (completed)
- NASA lead Phase II – data processing at USGS
- Full global dataset will be available in early 2009
- Parts are becoming available during this year
- Phase III – LCLUC products by community
- NASA ROSES-2007 LCLUC solicitation

## Thank you!