Title :
A review of EOS Terra quality assessment
Author :
Lutz, Bob ; Roy, David P. ; Leff, Craig ; Lewicki, Scott ; Geier, Erika ; Ziskin, Dan ; Kilpatrick, Katherine ; Chu, Allen
Author_Institution :
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
Terra is the flagship platform of NASA´s Earth Observing System (EOS) carrying the ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS, and MOPITT instruments in a polar Sun-synchronous orbit. These instruments sense approximately 200 gigabytes of data per day which are processed to produce a suite of standard products. QA involves the identification and labeling of those products which obviously and significantly do not conform to their expected accuracy/performance. This paper overviews the components of EOS QA and the different QA strategies developed by the Terra science teams
Keywords :
atmospheric techniques; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; terrain mapping; ASTER; CERES; EOS; Earth Observing System; MISR; MODIS; MOPITT; Terra; atmosphere; data processing; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; meteorology; ocean; quality assessment; satellite remote sensing; terrain mapping; Earth Observing System; Geophysics computing; Instruments; Laboratories; MODIS; NASA; Production systems; Propulsion; Quality assessment; Sociotechnical systems;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858285
