An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities
The 2017 Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Airborne Campaign (AAC) was one of the largest, most complex airborne science experiments conducted by NASA’s Earth Science Division. Between April and November, the AAC involved ten aircraft in more than 200 science flights that surveyed over 4 millio...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b517604fb5494323b9dc8ff466d82143 2023-09-05T13:17:00+02:00 An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities C E Miller P C Griffith S J Goetz E E Hoy N Pinto I B McCubbin A K Thorpe M Hofton D Hodkinson C Hansen J Woods E Larson E S Kasischke H A Margolis 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d44 https://doaj.org/article/b517604fb5494323b9dc8ff466d82143 EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d44 https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d44 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/b517604fb5494323b9dc8ff466d82143 Environmental Research Letters, Vol 14, Iss 8, p 080201 (2019) ABoVE arctic ecosystems boreal forest tundra permafrost Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d44 2023-08-13T00:37:25Z The 2017 Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Airborne Campaign (AAC) was one of the largest, most complex airborne science experiments conducted by NASA’s Earth Science Division. Between April and November, the AAC involved ten aircraft in more than 200 science flights that surveyed over 4 million km ^2 in Alaska and northwestern Canada. Many flights were coordinated with same-day ground-based measurements to link process-level studies with geospatial data products derived from satellite sensors. The AAC collected data spanning the critical intermediate space and time scales that are essential for a comprehensive understanding of scaling across the ABoVE Study Domain and ultimately extrapolation to the pan-Arctic using satellite data and ecosystem models. The AAC provided unique opportunities to validate satellite and airborne remote sensing data and data products for northern high latitude ecosystems. The science strategy coupled domain-wide sampling with L-band and P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), imaging spectroscopy, full waveform LIDAR, atmospheric trace gases (including carbon dioxide and methane), as well as focused studies using Ka-band SAR and solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Targets of interest included field sites operated by the ABoVE Science Team as well as the intensive and/or long-term sites operated by US and Canadian partners. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic permafrost Tundra Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Canada Environmental Research Letters 14 8 080201 |
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ABoVE arctic ecosystems boreal forest tundra permafrost Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 C E Miller P C Griffith S J Goetz E E Hoy N Pinto I B McCubbin A K Thorpe M Hofton D Hodkinson C Hansen J Woods E Larson E S Kasischke H A Margolis An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities |
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The 2017 Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Airborne Campaign (AAC) was one of the largest, most complex airborne science experiments conducted by NASA’s Earth Science Division. Between April and November, the AAC involved ten aircraft in more than 200 science flights that surveyed over 4 million km ^2 in Alaska and northwestern Canada. Many flights were coordinated with same-day ground-based measurements to link process-level studies with geospatial data products derived from satellite sensors. The AAC collected data spanning the critical intermediate space and time scales that are essential for a comprehensive understanding of scaling across the ABoVE Study Domain and ultimately extrapolation to the pan-Arctic using satellite data and ecosystem models. The AAC provided unique opportunities to validate satellite and airborne remote sensing data and data products for northern high latitude ecosystems. The science strategy coupled domain-wide sampling with L-band and P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), imaging spectroscopy, full waveform LIDAR, atmospheric trace gases (including carbon dioxide and methane), as well as focused studies using Ka-band SAR and solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Targets of interest included field sites operated by the ABoVE Science Team as well as the intensive and/or long-term sites operated by US and Canadian partners. |
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An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities |
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