The official start of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Ground Validation Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) Field Experiment begins on May 1, 2013. See https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/ifloods for the experiment overview.
To support the scientists in the field, the GHRC has developed a Drupal-based collaboration portal (no longer active) complete with instrument status reports, weather forecasts, schedules, mission reports, documents, and links to external datasets.
Numerous datasets and browse images have been ingested and uploaded to a Public FTP server (registration required) and the majority of those native datasets have been loaded into either a THREDDS (Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services) data server or GeoServer (an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data) for display on either a 2D Mercator or 3D Globe. In addition, four of the NEXRAD (Next-Generation Radar) Level-2 datasets are being “animated” to show the last ten images in motion.
