Title :
MODIS land data at the EROS Data Center DAAC
Author :
Jenkerson, C.B. ; Reed, B.C.
Author_Institution :
USGS EROS Data Center, Emergent Inf. Technol., Inc., Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Abstract :
The US Geological Survey´s (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC) in Sioux Falls, SD, USA, is the primary national archive for land processes data and one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration´s (NASA) Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAAC) for the Earth Observing System (EOS). One of EDC´s functions as a DAAC is the archival and distribution of Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land data collected from the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite Terra.. More than 500,000 publicly available MODIS land data granules totaling 25 Terabytes (Tb) are currently stored in the EDC archive. This collection is managed, archived, and distributed by EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS) CoreSystem (ECS) at EDC. EDC User Services support the use of MODIS land data, which include land surface reflectance/albedo, temperature/emissivity, vegetation characteristics, and land cover, by responding to user inquiries, constructing user information sites on the EDC web page, and presenting MODIS materials worldwide
Keywords :
information centres; information dissemination; information storage; remote sensing; DAAC; Distributed Active Archive Centers; ECS; EDC; EOS; EOS Data and Information System; EOSDIS Core System; EROS Data Center; Earth Observing System; Earth Resources Observation Systems; MODIS land data; Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer Data; Terra data; albedo; data granules; emissivity; land processes data; land-surface; national archive; reflectance; temperature; user information sites; user inquiries; vegetation characteristics; web page; Earth Observing System; Geology; Land surface; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Management information systems; NASA; Reflectivity; Satellites; Spectroradiometers;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977973
