98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013)

August 03 - 09, 2013

WK 4

NASA MODIS Remote-Sensing Data Acquisiton and Analysis Tools for Ecology Research

This workshop will provide participants with training on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's)MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data products and tools. Ecologists will learn how to find, access, manipulate, subset, and download MODIS data with out special knowledge or software experience; as well as how to obtain and work with HDF-EOS data formats. MODIS views the Earth's surface collecting data in 36 spectral bands. Land products generated from MODIS include land surface temperature, reflectance, vegetation indicies, phenology, land cover, albedo, and photosynthesis. This workshop will cover a data discovery tool developed by NASA’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) DAAC for Biogeochemical Dynamics, and feature its MODIS Land Products Subsetting and Visualization Tool that produces subsets of MODIS time series data. This toolset includes data for selected field sites, a global tool, and a Web Service. The Land Processes DAAC (LPDAAC) will step ecologists from beginner to advanced through the USGS visualization tools EarthExplorer (EE) and GloVis; HDF-EOS data collection with Data Pool and Reverb; and reprojection using MRTWeb. Additionally an overview of working with HDF-EOS data will be provided.