NASA will host a Google+ Hangout from several NASA centers at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 23 as the agency prepares to fly two unmanned aircraft over Atlantic Ocean hurricanes this summer. For more information and to attend the Hangout, please go to http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/july/nasa-to-host-google-hangout-on-hurri.... Data from the HS3 project will be available from GHRC starting next year.
Michael Goodman (NASA/MSFC; GHRC DAAC Manager) and Helen Conover (UAH/ITSC; GHRC Operations Manager) represented GHRC at the ESIP Federation Assembly, held in Chapel Hill, NC, July 9-12. As always, the meeting offered opportunities for valuable interactions with colleagues from NASA and other data systems. Mr. Goodman participated in sessions concerned with Earth science applications, information systems and computing, and natural disaster response. Ms. Conover participated in sessions addressing current issues in data stewardship, data discovery and metadata standards. She presented a poster entitled “GPM Ground Validation Field Campaigns: Collaboration and Data Management Tools.” GHRC-affiliated researchers Manil Maskey and Ajinkya Kulkarni (both UAH/ITSC) presented in the Disaster Response and Drupal Lab sessions, respectively. Mr. Maskey’s poster was “Coastal Hazards Event Drive Automated Data Aggregation, Processing and Delivery.” The GHRC team also attended an off-site, after-hours side meeting with NASA HQ at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Additional GHRC team members attended selected sessions remotely.
GHRC's Ajinkya Kulkarni's presentation is the top Google search result for "introduction to Drupal Module development." The presentation is also popular on YouTube with almost 5000 downloads. You can read more at http://earthdata.nasa.gov/about-eosdis/news/community-data-systems-project’s-tutorial-top-google-hit. This story has made the front page of EOSDIS website at http://earthdata.nasa.gov/.
GHRC has released the GPM Ground Validation Environment Canada (EC) Micro Rain Radar (MRR) GCPEx dataset. Environment Canada (EC) collected data from the Micro Rain Radar (MRR) during the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) in Ontario, Canada during the winter season 2012. Operating at 24 GHz the MRR, a vertically pointing Doppler radar, retrieved quantitative rain rates, drop size distributions, radar reflectivity, fall velocities on vertical profiles up to several kilometers above the unit.
Dr. Rahul Ramachandran has been elected to serve as the chair of the IEEE Geosciences & Remote Sensing Society's (GRSS) Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee (DAD TC) for a two-year term. This committee provides recommendations and responses to issues related to the archiving and distribution of remotely sensed geospatial and geotemporal data. More information is available at the committee’s web site [http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/technical-committees/data-archival-distribution/]. Hampapuram Ramapriyan of NASA ESDIS is the outgoing DAD TC Chair. Dr. Ramachandran is a senior research scientist with the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC) and the Global Hydrology Resource Center, a NASA data center jointly operated by Marshall Space Flight Center and ITSC.
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