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GHRC personnel involved in latest edition of Earth Science Informatics!

Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) Manager Dr. Rahul Ramachandran was a guest editor for the current edition of Earth Science Informatics, a special issue on Intelligent GIServices (Geographical Information Services). GHRC data management group member Kaylin Bugbee was co-author of a paper in this issue, which describes the concept of intelligent GIServices, followed by a review of the state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies relevant to intelligent GIServices including capabilities such as knowledge representation, semantic reasoning, automatic workflow composition, and quality and traceability.

Peng Yue, Rahul Ramachandran & Peter Baumann, eds (2015) Earth Science Informatics special issue on Intelligent GIServices. September 2015, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp 461-462. doi:10.1007/s12145-015-0237-z

Yue P, Baumann P, Bugbee K, Jiang L (2015) Towards intelligent GIServices. Earth Sci Inf. doi:10.​1007/​s12145-015-0229-z

GHRC DAAC data featured in NASA EarthData article

 

A Sensing Our Planet article highlighting GHRC DAAC data is currently featured on the NASA EarthData website! "Profiles in intensity: Unmanned aircraft probe the secrets of hurricanes" features the NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission. Find HS3 data through HyDRO, GHRC DAAC's data search tool.

Image: A camera on the underside of the Global Hawk aircraft took this photograph of Tropical Storm Frank from an altitude of 60,000 feet on August 28, 2010. (Courtesy NASA/NOAA)

GHRC DAAC publishes three GPM-GV MRR datasets

The Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) published three Micro Rain Radar (MRR) datasets in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Ground Validation collection. 

GPM Ground Validation Micro Rain Radar (MRR) NASA IPHEx

GPM Ground Validation Micro Rain Radar (MRR) NASA IFloodS

GPM Ground Validation Micro Rain Radar (MRR) NASA HyMeX

The MRR is a vertically pointing Doppler radar which provides measurements of vertical velocity, drop size distribution, rainfall rate, attenuation, liquid water content, and reflectivity factor.  These datasets contain observations from MRRs deployed for the Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEx), which took place in western North Carolina during the spring of 2014; the Iowa Flood Study (IFloodS), which took place in eastern Iowa during the spring of 2013; and the HYdrological cycle in Mediterranean EXperiment (HyMeX) in Italy, fall 2012.

GHRC DAAC publishes HS3 HIRAD dataset

The Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) has published another core dataset in the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) collection. The HS3 Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) dataset contains ocean surface winds and precipitation observations from the HIRAD multi-band passive microwave radiometer. HIRAD uses novel interferometric aperture synthesis technique to produce high-resolution wide swath observations without any mechanical scanning of the antenna. The instrument was designed to measure ocean surface wind speed in tropical storms and hurricanes. Developed in collaboration between scientists and engineers at NASA MSFC, University of Central Florida and University of Michigan, the instrument was first flown on NASA high altitude aircraft in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Experiment in 2010 and Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) in 2012-2014. Learn more about HIRAD at https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/projects/hs3.

GHRC releases new and improved version of HyDRO

We have improved HyDRO, our data discovery and access tool! The updated design improves the user experience in navigating search results to find all relevant dataset information, including metadata and documentation, browse imagery, inventory listing and download location. This version of HyDRO also integrates the central NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Earthdata Login (formerly called the EOSDIS User Registration System (URS)). Users can be steered through the Earthdata Login download data or place an order. Currently, login is only required for accessing selected datasets.

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