Journal Information

Online ISSN: 1525-7541
Print ISSN:    1525-755X
Frequency:    Bimonthly .

Volume 9, Issue 6 (December 2008)
Davis, Robert E., Thomas H. Painter, Rick Forster, Don Cline, Richard Armstrong, Terry Haran, Kyle McDonald, Kelly Elder, 2008: NASA Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX 2002/03): Spaceborne Remote Sensing. J. Hydrometeor, 9, 1427–1433.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JHM926.1

NASA Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX 2002/03): Spaceborne Remote Sensing

Robert E. Davis

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, New Hampshire

Thomas H. Painter and Rick Forster

Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Don Cline

National Operational Remote Sensing Hydrology Center, National Weather Service, Chanhassen, Minnesota

Richard Armstrong and Terry Haran

National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Kyle McDonald

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Kelly Elder

Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado





Abstract

This paper describes satellite data collected as part of the 2002/03 Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX). These data include multispectral and hyperspectral optical imaging, and passive and active microwave observations of the test areas. The CLPX multispectral optical data include the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the Landsat Thematic Mapper/Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (TM/ETM+), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR). The spaceborne hyperspectral optical data consist of measurements acquired with the NASA Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) Hyperion imaging spectrometer. The passive microwave data include observations from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) for Earth Observing System (EOS; AMSR-E). Observations from the Radarsat synthetic aperture radar and the SeaWinds scatterometer flown on QuikSCAT make up the active microwave data.

Keywords: Satellite observations, Remote sensing, Land surface, Snow

Received: April 26, 2007; Accepted: January 15, 2008

Corresponding author address: Robert Davis, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, USACE, 72 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755-1290. Email:

This article included in the The Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX) special collection.

Cited by

Kelly Elder, Angus Goodbody, Don Cline, Paul Houser, Glen E. Liston, Larry Mahrt, Nick Rutter. (2009) NASA Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX 2002/03): Ground-Based and Near-Surface Meteorological Observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology 10:1, 330-337
Online publication date: 1-Feb-2009.
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