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ASF SAR Data Center Support for MEaSUREs Projects. Vicky Wolf ASF User Support Supervisor. MEaSUREs Projects Supported by ASF. An Inundated Wetlands Earth System Data Record: Global Monitoring of Wetland Extent and Dynamics PI: Kyle McDonald Provided PALSAR acquisition planning support
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ASF SAR Data Center Support for MEaSUREs Projects Vicky Wolf ASF User Support Supervisor
MEaSUREs Projects Supported by ASF An Inundated Wetlands Earth System Data Record: Global Monitoring of Wetland Extent and Dynamics PI: Kyle McDonald • Provided PALSAR acquisition planning support • Requested by the project that ASF SDC be the distribution center for products, NASA has not decided which data center will distribute the products Greenland Ice Mapping Project: Measuring rapid changes in ice flow PI: Ian Joughin • Processed RADARSAT-1 mapping of Greenland for winter 2007-2008 • Provided PALSAR observation planning support • Providing processed PALSAR data for mapping of Greenland for the winter of 2009-2010 • Distribution of derived products assigned to NSIDC, preliminary products already available
MEaSUREs Projects Supported by ASF Ice Velocity Mapping of the Great Ice Sheets: Antarctica PI: Eric Rignot • Processed the PALSAR data for 2007-2008 season. • Processing the PALSAR data for the 2008-2009 season. • Acquired the PALSAR data for the 2009-2010 from JAXA and will process once the previous season is complete. • Distribution of derived products assigned to NSIDC. ESDR of small-scale kinematics of Arctic Ocean sea ice PI: Ron Kwok • Creating snapshots of sea ice every three days over the entire Arctic Ocean • ASF Completed winter 2005-2006 and winter 2006-2007; Winter 2004-2005 completed by JPL; Work in progress on winter 2003-2004 at ASF • Completed products available through the ASF SDC website for immediate download
First Contact Kwok’s Sea Ice MEaSUREs Project • ASF was involved in the proposal for the project. • Requirements for the data center were taken into consideration from the beginning of the project ASF DAAC of choice for other MEaSUREs projects • Delay in being named as the DAAC • This has put a real kink in the progress toward completion. • Detrimental to both the DAAC operations and to the successful completion of the MEaSUREs project This effectively hamstrings the current project
Data Products • Source data for the four projects will continue to be distributed by the ASF SDC • Precursor products for both the sea ice and wetlands projects are currently available from the ASF SDC • Data format for sea ice products determined by historical precedence
Agreements • ASF was included in the proposal of the Sea Ice project • Incorporated into ASF’s contract with NASA • It would have been preferred to do the same with the other MEaSUREs projects • The Antarctica and Greenland projects discussed the data needs for the projects after proposals were approved. • The impact of the large volume of data acquisition and processing on ASF was not accounted for in the project development