Archiving, processing, and disseminating ASTER products at the USGS EROS Data Center

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Edited by: Barnes W.L.

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The U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center archives, processes, and disseminates Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data products. The ASTER instrument is one of five sensors onboard the Earth Observing System's Terra satellite launched December 18, 1999. ASTER collects broad spectral coverage with high spatial resolution at near infrared, shortwave infrared, and thermal infrared wavelengths with ground resolutions of 15, 30, and 90 meters, respectively. The ASTER data are used in many ways to understand local and regional earth-surface processes. Applications include land-surface climatology, volcanology, hazards monitoring, geology, agronomy, land cover change, and hydrology. The ASTER data are available for purchase from the ASTER Ground Data System in Japan and from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center in the United States, which receives level 1A and level 1B data from Japan on a routine basis. These products are archived and made available to the public within 48 hours of receipt. The level 1A and level 1B data are used to generate higher level products that include routine and on-demand decorrelation stretch, brightness temperature at the sensor, emissivity, surface reflectance, surface kinetic temperature, surface radiance, polar surface and cloud classification, and digital elevation models. This paper describes the processes and procedures used to archive, process, and disseminate standard and on-demand higher level ASTER products at the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center.
Publication type Conference Paper
Publication Subtype Conference Paper
Title Archiving, processing, and disseminating ASTER products at the USGS EROS Data Center
DOI 10.1117/12.451575
Volume 4814
Year Published 2002
Language English
Larger Work Title Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
First page 402
Last page 413
Conference Title Earth Observing Systems VII
Conference Location Seattle, WA
Conference Date 7 July 2002 through 10 July 2002
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