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New data for MODIS and FLUXNET-derived Global Daily Terrestrial Gross Primary Production

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-05-21
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Gross primary production from FluxSat v2.0 expressed as carbon (g m-2 d-1) for July 1st, 2019.

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Version 2 of the dataset on satellite- and FLUXNET tower-derived data on daily gross primary production of global vegetation has been released.

UAVSAR P-band polarimetric data from flight lines over Alaska and western Canada, 2017

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-05-21
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UAVSAR P-band SAR radar swaths over study sites across Alaska, USA, and western Canada for the 2017 ABoVE campaign.

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Level 1 polarimetric radar backscattering coefficient, multi-look complex, polarimetrically calibrated, and georeferenced data products for study sites.

NASA SBG Community Webinar

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-05-14
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SBG Science and Applications Objectives Studies aim to compile the driving SBG requirements for all Designated Observable science and application objectives and to develop the SBG Science and Applications Traceability Matrix (image credit: NASA JPL).

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Upcoming NASA Surface Biology & Geology (SBG) community webinar on 15 June 2021 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.

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Midwestern USA 2018 crop growing season Land Cover-Specific SIF

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-04-19
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Examples of spatial patterns of reconstructed SIF at 4 km resolution. Only pixels with a fraction of the specific vegetation type larger than 0.1 are shown. For Total SIF, only pixels with a fraction of corn, soybean, grass/pasture, and forest larger than 0.8 are displayed.

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Estimated solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) of specific vegetation types and total SIF available at 4-km resolution.
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NASA Earthdata Article Highlights Delta-X Airborne Mission

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2021-04-14
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Delta-X is a 5-year NASA Earth Venture Suborbital-3 mission to study the subsidence and growth of the Mississippi River Delta in the United States. 

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NASA researchers are using high resolution airborne data to determine vulnerability and resilience of the Mississippi River Delta.

Sea Water Elevation Profile and Change from Pre-Delta-X Campaign Datasets

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Collage of dataset airborne imagery from AirSWOT, UAVSAR and the ASO lidar instrument provide examination of water level elevation estimates and changes.

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Five Pre-Delta-X Airborne datasets recently published provide sea water level profile and change derived from UAVSAR, AirSWOT, and lidar.