NASA's Pathfinder data set programme: land surface parameters

Abstract The Pathfinder data set concept was initiated by the Earth Observing System (EOS) Program Office at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters to address how existing satellite-derived data sets could be used for global change research prior to the availability of EOS data. They are denned as long time-series satellite data sets capable of stable calibration which can be reprocessed using a community-consensus set of algorithms In October 1990 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated a joint Pathfinder program. Data from three NOAA and one Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) instruments have been designated as Pathfinders under this activity. In addition to this joint effort, NASA has also initiated a Pathfinder development effort for data from both Landsat and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) flown on NASA's Nimbus-7 satellite The AVHRR Pathfinder was the first set of projects to be initiated. Becaus...

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