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Science staff members represent GHRC DAAC at AMS 2017 Winter Meeting

The GHRC DAAC was represented by science staff members Deborah Smith and Amanda Weigel at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Seattle, January 22–26, 2017. A primary goal was to interact with current and potential users of GHRC data, as well as data providers. Weigel created and hosted the poster “Stimulating Remote Sensing Education through Knowledge Augmentation Services” on Monday, Jan 23rd in the Education poster session. Deborah created and hosted “Visualize, Discover, and Analyze: A Data Center’s Innovative Services for Addressing Observing System Challenges” poster on Wednesday, Jan 25th in the Observation Symposium (theme of 2017 meeting) poster session. This poster included an information box about the upcoming ESDIS Webinar on Field Campaign Explorer, scheduled for February 8.

The posters can be found on the Information Technology & Systems Center website at http://www.itsc.uah.edu/main/outreach/posters:

“Stimulating Remote Sensing Education through Knowledge Augmentation Services”
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“Visualize, Discover, and Analyze: A Data Center’s Innovative Services for Addressing Observing System Challenges”
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AMSR Level-2 Land product processing completed - full res imagery provided by GIBS

The AMSR Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the GHRC DAAC has completed processing of the initial AMSR Level-2 Land product from beginning of the AMSR2 mission to present. This product is generated using the AMSR Unified (AMSR-E and AMSRU) Land algorithms, with Level-1R (resampled) brightness temperatures from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as input. Routine forward processing continues. Data products are delivered from the AMSR SIPS to NSIDC DAAC for archive and distribution. Full resolution imagery are provided to the Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS).

GHRC DAAC data processing and management team members attend successful ISS LIS simulation

On January 9, 2017, William Ellett and Lamar Hawkins, of the GHRC DAAC’s data processing and management team for the Lightning Imaging Sensor to be deployed to the International Space Station (ISS LIS), participated with the LIS science and engineering team in a simulation activity for the STP-H5 (Space Test Program-Houston 5) package, which contains the ISS LIS. The successful simulation involved use of proper voice protocol to ask the STP-H5 Payload Rack Officer to enable commanding for LIS, to issue the LIS instrument reset commands, and to verify that those commands were sent.

GHRC DAAC attends 2017 ESIP Winter Meeting

ESIP 2017 Winter Meeting banner

The GHRC DAAC was represented at the 2017 Winter Meeting of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) by DAAC Manager Dr. Rahul Ramachandran, Operations Manager Helen Conover, and Science Team member Kaylin Bugbee. Ms. Bugbee serves as co-chair of ESIP’s Documentation Cluster, and was a convener for several sessions related to metadata and documentation. She also presented on her extra-DAAC work with ESDIS’ Common Metadata Repository (CMR) and the Partnership for Resilience Preparedness (PREP). Ms. Conover helped organize a session on Event-Driven Virtual Collections (VC), at which Bugbee presented her VC research. Conover was also elected chair of the Finance and Appropriations Committee.

GPM Ground Validation NASA EPFL-LTE Parsivel DSD Data now available at GHRC

Parsivel disdrometers - LPVEx

The Global Hydrology Resource Center has published the GPM Ground Validation NASA EPFL-LTE Parsivel DSD Data from Lausanne, Switzerland (http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/EPFL/DATA201). The dataset consists of a network of 16 Parsivel disdrometers deployed by the Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory (Laboratoire de Télédétection Environnementale – LTE) on the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) campus in Lausanne, Switzerland for about 16 months from March 2009 to July 2010. The distribution of the disdrometers was to cover a typical operational radar pixel (about 1x1 km2). Since all the stations were not deployed at the same time, additional data are available from November 2008 to September 2010. The dataset also includes a list of precipitation events that occurred throughout the study period.

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