NASA, through its Earth Science Data Systems, supports the NASA Earth Science research community in providing Earth science data products and services driven by NASA’s Earth Science goals. NASA’s Earth Science Program is dedicated to advancing Earth remote sensing and pioneering the scientific use of satellite measurements to improve human understanding of our home planet in order to inform economic and policy decisions and improve operational services of benefit to the Nation. Through the MEaSUREs Program, NASA is continuing its commitment to expand understanding the Earth system using consistent records. NASA has begun to deploy new types of sensors to provide three-dimensional profiles of Earth’s atmosphere and surface. Emphasis is placed into linking together multiple satellites into a constellation, developing the means of utilizing a multitude of data sources to form coherent time series, and facilitating the use of extensive data in the development of comprehensive Earth system models.
Under the title program element of the ROSES-2006 announcement, proposals were solicited to focus on the creation of Earth System Data Records (ESDRs), including Climate Data Records. An ESDR is defined as a unified and coherent set of observations of a given parameter of the Earth system, which is optimized to meet specific requirements in addressing science questions. These records are critical to understanding Earth System processes, to assessing variability, long-term trends, and change in the Earth System, and to provide input and validation means to modeling efforts. The solicitation resulted in the selection in October 2007 of 29 projects for funding.
The MEaSUREs projects are focused on product generation, availability, and utility. During the life of MEaSUREs the projects, each of the projects is responsible for making its ESDRs available to the user community. At the end of the MEaSUREs projects, the generated ESDRs will be archived and distributed by the EOSDIS data centers.
Awarded projects (2006) provide Earth science data products and services driven by NASA’s Earth science goals and contributing to advancing NASA Earth system “missions to measurements” concept.
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Atmospheric Composition
Consistent Long-term Aerosol Data Records over Land and Ocean from SeaWiFS
Creating a Long Term Multi-Sensor Ozone Data Record
Creating a Unified Airborne Database for Assessment and Validation of Global Models of
Atmospheric Composition
GOZCARDS: Global OZone Chemistry And Related trace gas Data records for the Stratosphere
Climate Variability and Change
A Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform Ocean Surface Wind Velocity Data Set for Meteorological and
Oceanographic Applications
A Multi-Sensor Water Vapor Climate Data Record Using Cloud Classification
Development of Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Climate Data Records
Distributed Information Services: Climate/Ocean Products and Visualizations for
Earth Research (DISCOVER) Continuation of Project
Earth Surface and Atmospheric Reflectivity Since 1979 from Multiple Satellites
- (TOMS, SBUV, SBUV-2, OMI, SeaWiFS, NPP, and NPOESS)
ESDR of small-scale kinematics of Arctic Ocean sea ice
GAC and HRPT AVHRR Reprocessing to GHRSST
Global Cloud Process Studies in the Context of Decadal Climate Variability: Enhancement and
Continuation of Data Analysis for the international Satellite Cloud Climatalogy Project (ISCCP)
Greenland Ice Mapping Project: Measuring rapid changes in ice flow
Ice Velocity Mapping of the Great Ice Sheets: Antarctica
Improvement of the NVAP Global Water Vapor Data Set for Climate, Hydrological, and Weather Studies
Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Data for Climate Research
Multi-sensor Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) SST field
Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems
A Time Series of Photosynthetically Available Radiation at the Ocean Surface
from SeaWiFS and MODIS Data
An Earth System Data Record for Land Surface Freeze-Thaw State:
Quantifying Terrestrial Water Mobility Constraints to Global Ecosystem Processes
Beyond Chlorophyll: Implementation and Distribution of Innovative Ocean
Color Earth Science Data Records.
Earth Science Data Records of Global Forest Cover Change
Vegetation Phenology and Enhanced Vegetation Index Products from
Multiple Long Term Satellite Data Records
Web-enabled consistent large area Landsat data streams & derived
surface characterizations - MODIS-Landsat data fusion for terrestrial user community
Water and Energy Cycle
A Long-Term Precipitation Dataset with Uncertainty Information
An Inundated Wetlands Earth System Data Record: Global Monitoring of Wetland Extent and Dynamics
Developing consistent Earth System Data Records for the global terrestrial water cycle
Reprocessing of Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) Data Set for Global Water and Energy Cycle Research
Earth Surface and Interior
An Earth System Data Record of changes in Earth masses from GRACE, CHAMP and other satellites.
Solid Earth Science ESDR System
The Definitive Merged Global Digital Topographic Data Set
