Remote Sensing of Earth’s Environment from Terra

(La Scuola per la Societo dell ‘Informazione)

• Agenda
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  • PDF (135KB Download)
• Windows Readme
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  • PDF (46KB Download)
• Introduction and Plans for the Course (Orbits, Wavelengths, Scattering, Radiation Definitions)
  Michael King, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (12MB Download)
  • Terra Orbit MPG (5MB Download)
• History of Remote Sensing & Global Change
  David Herring, Science, Systems, and Applications, Inc.
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (4MB Download)
  • SST Anomalies MOV (4MB Download)
  • Mt Etna MPG (1MB Download)
  • El Misti Volcano MOV (11MB Download)
• Overview of Terra
  Michael King, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (24MB Download)
  • Terra Launch MOV (30MB Download)
  • Terra Deployment MOV (15MB Download)
  • Terra Orbit MOV (3MB Download)
  • MODIS Swath MOV (3MB Download)
  • Aerosol MOV (9MB Download)
  • Water Vapor Loop MOV (7MB Download)
  • North America MOV (2MB Download)
  • Global Snow MPG (32MB Download)
  • CERES Swath MOV (4MB Download)
  • Aqua/CERES Swath MOV (26MB Download)
  • CERES LW/SW Globes MPG (3MB Download)
  • ASTER Swath MOV (4MB Download)
  • Mt St Helens MOV (3MB Download)
  • MISR Swath MOV (8MB Download)
  • MISR Parallax MOV (1MB Download)
  • MOPITT’s Swath MOV (4MB Download)
  • MOPITT View of Africa MOV (3MB Download)
  • MOPITT’s First Year MPG (6MB Download)
  • Himalayas MOV (48MB Download)
• MODIS Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Aerosol over Ocean
  Didier Tanré, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille, France
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (16MB Download)
• MODIS Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Aerosol over Land, including Direct Radiative Forcing
  Yoram Kaufman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (39MB Download)
  • Rainbow MOV (13MB Download)
• MODIS Retrieval of Cloud Optical & Microphysical Properties, Including the Cloud Mask
  Steven Platnick, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (24MB Download)
  • North America MOV (2MB Download)
• MODIS Retrieval of Atmospheric Water Vapor
  Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, University of Wisconsin
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (17MB Download)
  • Total Precipitable Water 2001 MOV (28MB Download)
  • Total Precipitable Water 2002 MOV (9MB Download)
• MODIS Remote Sensing of Oceans: Atmospheric Correction, Calibration, Sea Surface Temperature, and Chlorophyll-a
  Robert Evans, University of Miami
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (32MB Download)
• MODIS Remote Sensing of Ocean Color: Fluorescence and Primary Productivity
  Viva Banzon, University of Miami
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (44MB Download)
• Monitoring Surface Reflectance and Fires using MODIS
  Eric Vermote, University of Maryland
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (31MB Download)
  • Fire 8 Day Visualization MOV (3MB Download)
• MODIS Retrieval of Land Cover and Land Cover Change, Albedo, and Bidirectional Reflectance
  Alan Strahler, Boston University
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (9MB Download)
  • Terra Orbit MPG (5MB Download)
  • MODIS Swath MOV (3MB Download)
• Global Land Surface Albedo, Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance and BRDF Products from MODIS: 2000 to Present
  Alan Strahler, Boston University
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (30MB Download)
• MODIS Determination of Leaf Area Index & Flux of Photosynthetically Active Radiation
  Steve Running, University of Montana
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (7MB Download)
• CERES Retrieval of Earth Radiation Budget & Cloud Radiative Forcing
  Bruce Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (13MB Download)
  • 14 Day Running LW Flux Average 2000 MPG (3MB Download)
• CERES Angular Directional Models
  Norman Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (7MB Download)
• Multiangle Remote Sensing from MISR: Overview and Observational Principles
  David Diner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (35MB Download)
• MISR Remote Sensing of Cloud Physical Properties
  Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (11MB Download)
• MISR Remote Sensing of Surface Bidirectional Reflectance
  Michel Verstraete, CEC Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (6MB Download)
• MISR Remote Sensing Tropospheric Aerosol
  David Diner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (14MB Download)
• ASTER Instrument Characteristics, Calibration, and Performance
  Yasushi Yamaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (29MB Download)
• ASTER Applications to Earth Science
  Anne Kahle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (195MB Download)
• ASTER Separation of Temperature and Emissivity
  Alan Gillespie, University of Washington
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (16MB Download)
• Gas Correlation Spectroscopy and the MOPITT Instrument
  James Drummond, University of Toronto, Canada
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (6MB Download)
• MOPITT Retrieval of Carbon Monoxide and Methane
  John Gille, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (14MB Download)
  • MOPITT 500mb MOV (16MB Download)
  • MOPITT CO Data MOV (38MB Download)
• Assimilation of CH4 and CO from MOPITT
  John Gille, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (9MB Download)
  • Advection MOV (12MB Download)
  • Convection MOV (2MB Download)
  • Turbulence MOV (18MB Download)
  • CO Colors MOV (29MB Download)
• Applications and Outreach of Terra Data: the Earth Observatory & Visible Earth
  David Herring, Science, Systems, and Applications, Inc.
  Downloads:
  • Powerpoint Presentation (4MB Download)