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Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing

Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing. Dar Roberts David Knapp ( Rapporteur ) 20 Participants General Theme: How can we get more airborne dat a in to the hands of terrestrial ecologists?. Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing. What are our primary airborne sensors and platforms?

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Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing

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  1. Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Dar Roberts David Knapp (Rapporteur) 20 Participants General Theme: How can we get more airborne data in to the hands of terrestrial ecologists?

  2. Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing • What are our primary airborne sensors and platforms? • Many sensors and platforms exist including many of the classics (e.g., AVIRIS, UAVSAR,LVIS). • Several new sensors will be coming on line soon (AVIRIS-NG, EMAS) • Are we using them effectively to address important science questions? • PI driven has been effective • Campaigns are mixed • Boreas – underutilized (even with Boreas Follow on) • 2009 UAVSAR effective use • RECOMMENDATION: Effective use of remote sensing should be considered in pre-campaign activities and adequate resources should be allocated for processing and analysis.

  3. Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing • Are we using them effectively to maximize our return on the NASA/TE investment in infrastructure, operations, flight hour subsidies? • Yes and No. • Access to archived data is mixed. • Some excellent web-based tools exist to identify historical data sets • UAVSAR uses DAAC (ASF): Freely available, good search engine. • MASTER and MAS (Masterweb.jpl.nasa.gov). • RECOMMENDATION: These resources should be better advertised. • Some are not as accessible but could be (e,g. AVIRIS, LVIS) • RECOMMENDATION: Encourage the creation of user friendly search engines and provide a list of what is available. Make searchable data freely accessible (like UAVSAR, MAS and MASTER). For those data sets requiring minimal investment this should be done. • Targets of opportunity are often missed • Can we develop a mechanism to improve acquisition of targets of opportunity? • Can a list of NASA relevant research sites be created? • What is the potential for use in transect modes? • If we make existing flight plans easy to see, will this open up opportunities for piggybacks?

  4. Effective Use of Airborne Remote Sensing • What options might TE or NASA Earth Science consider to improve research use of airborne sensors and platforms? • RECOMMENDATIONS: • Make the process of incorporating airborne data into proposals clearer. • Clarify the costs for acquisition and processing in the proposal process (including transit). • Flight hours should be budgeted analogous to NSF ship time and NASA atmospheric science (i.e., not included as a line item in a budget).

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