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1. Land Products from NPP and NPOESS Jeffrey L. Privette
NPP Deputy Project Scientist
Dan Tarpley
NOAA/NESDIS
27 October 2005
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6. 6 VIIRS Thermal: Fewer, Wider Bands
7. 7 Land EDRs Use Most Bands
8. 8 VIIRS Products Continue Heritage
9. 9 Heritage: AVHRR’s First Land Products Global Vegetation Index (8 km weekly, GVI; NOAA)
Top-of-atmosphere composited NDVI only
Operational
GIMMS (8 km, 15 day; NASA), and
Pathfinder I (8 km 10 day; NASA/NOAA)
NDVI with some atmospheric correction
Multimission cross-calibration, solar angle normalization
Post-processed
FASIR (1°, monthly; NASA)
GIMMS-derived + Leaf Area Index, Absorbed Radiation (FPAR) and albedo
Post-processed
10. 10 Heritage: MODIS “Operationalized” Land
11. 11 VIIRS Surface Reflectance IP
12. 12 MODIS atmospheric correction
13. 13 VIIRS Vegetation Indices EDR
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15. 15 VIIRS Surface Albedo EDR
16. 16 MODIS Albedo: Always Gridded
17. 17 VIIRS Land Surface Temperature
18. 18 MODIS Land Surface Temperature
19. 19 VIIRS Fire “Application”
20. 20 MODIS Fire Product
21. 21 VIIRS Surface Type EDR
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23. Some Changes From Heritage
24. 24 Reduced Pixel Growth Along Scan
25. 25 Few EDRs Are Gridded or Gap-filled
26. 26 Land EDR Validation: Tough but Critical
27. 27 EOS Validation: Years, Ongoing Provisional – Product quality may not be optimal and incremental product improvements are still occurring
Validated -- Product uncertainties are well defined over a range of representative conditions ready for use in scientific publications, and by other agencies there may be later improved versions. There are three validation stages:
Stage 1 Validation: Product accuracy has been estimated using a small number of independent measurements obtained from selected locations and time periods and ground-truth/field program effort.
Stage 2 Validation: Product accuracy has been assessed over a widely distributed set of locations and time periods via several ground-truth and validation efforts.
Stage 3 Validation: Product accuracy has been assessed and the uncertainties in the product well established via independent measurements in a systematic and statistically robust way representing global conditions.