Notes taken by Dan Swets at 3/24/00 SD NASA EPSCoR Meeting

Further Refinement and Prioritization of Science Issues for EPSCoR-2000 Proposal
(Group participation with Dan Swets and Pat Zimmerman as facilitators)

Calibration of satellites

Targets, profiles

Atmospheric correction

Monitoring ecosystem structure & function

Development of satellite-based land surface models

Sub-pixel variability

Vegetation type identification

Linking images to crop quality

Remote sensing

predict global change

Seasonality

Season metrics

Characteristic curves for land cover

Land cover change

Land management

Precision ag

Carbon seq.

Grazing management

Hydrology

Precip: rain, snow

storage

runoff

Ground water recharge

Erosion (need NASA contacts)

Evapotrans.

Additional items to include in the grant proposal

Technology transfer to private sector as an element of the proposal

Connection to state priorities to id match

K12 participate in studies - Space Grant and others

Agriculture

ESIPS weed mapping

Spatial variability weed/soil

Bio control of weed species

Rangeland management

Soybean board Yield variability

Wheat quality

USDA Information distribution and management practice impacts

RESAC

Modeling

Argonne / remote sensing use

Soil carbon (State-funded)

UMRB pilot project

Ameriflux sites (carbon, water, heat flux)

Watershed assessment & modeling

STEPS

Sensor calibration

Vicarious calibration Lansat 5/7, EO-, IKONOS

Tethered balloon package

LANSAT TM Lansat 5/7

TRIMM validation & calibration

Seasonality

Season metrics

Characterization of curves

Overflights/Data sets

Science data buy

AVIRIS IKONOS EO-1

NOAA eddy flux turbulance

LANSAT 5/7 images from EDC

1m Airborne Data Systems (Brookings)

TRW

Stennis Atlas

AirSAR

Climatic Center surface water

22-year LANSAT data sets W

NOAA AVHRR, MODIS

ASAS - Brookings

10m DEM Day County

State ground water level/quality database

Land cover data sets

NRCS soil cores

Digital orthophoto quads (1/3 done, soon all of the state)

Survey of wetlands (Wetland Restoration Study USGS)

One highly instrumented site

Power: clean

Structure

Access to facilities (eat, sleep)

Connectivity, data management (storage, transfer, archive)

Operator?

Measurement calibrations/ Q A

Siting criteria

Logistically "close"

Variability representative (various ag, grassland)

Near edge of a lansat scene (dual coverage)

"small" wetland, large enough to see

closed basin or close to the top

Wetland complex that has a variety of types

Existing historical database, history of land use

Interested farmer willing to help, with instrumentation

Proximity to public land?

Year-long access

Setting within region

Measurements

Basic meterological suite

Snow depth

Soil moisture

Ground water levels

Soil temperature

Soil characterization

Ground/surface water chemistry (frequency tbd)

Leaf area index, species composition, biodiversity

Aerosols

Yield

Surface reflectance and radiance (including TIR)

Sun photometry

Fractional cloud cover

CO₂ in water fluxes

Diffuse sky directional radiance, irradiance

Polarization of surface targets

Mixing heights

Water variables

LIDAR measurements

Science plan/outline/table of contents July 2000

AO August, 2000

Meeting August, 2000

LOI Oct, 2000

Proposal completed November, 2000

Proposal due Dec, 2000

Start date March, 2001

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