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Meltpond2000 Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer Sea Ice Brightness Temperatures

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata:

Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: M. Klein, A.J. Gasiewski, D. Cavalieri, T. Markus

Publication_Date: 20040213

Title: Meltpond2000 Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer Sea Ice Brightness Temperatures

Edition:

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:

Series_Information:

Series_Name:
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Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Boulder, CO
Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

Other_Citation_Details:

Online_Linkage: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0208.html

Description:

Abstract:: The Meltpond2000 project was the first in a series of Arctic and Antarctic aircraft campaigns to validate sea ice algorithms developed for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), primarily to quantify errors in AMSR-E sea ice products resulting from the presence of melt ponds. The AMSR-E validation effort addresses data quality through comprehensive calibration and validation programs. These programs characterize and document the accuracy and precision of AMSR-E observations and their derived products. Data were collected from five flights over Baffin Bay and the Canadian Archipelago from 26 June 2000 to 6 July 2000. All measurements fall within 68.967 deg N - 76.422 deg N, 63.197 deg W - 105.022 deg W. Spatial resolution varies from 0.13 km to 3.6 km, depending on the sensor. Data are provided as MATLAB files, requiring MATLAB version 5.3 or greater. These data and MATLAB programs to generate brightness temperature (TB) maps are available via FTP.
Purpose:: Not Available
Supplemental_Information:: REFERENCE: Cavalieri, D.J. 2000. EOS Aqua AMSR-E sea ice validation program: Meltpond2000 flight report. NASA Technical Memorandum, NASA/TM 2000-209972. Greenbelt, MD, USA: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Ivanoff, A. 'Meltpond2000.' Sea Ice Remote Sensing. 23 May 2003. http://polynya.gsfc.nasa.gov/seaice_mp2000.html. Accessed January 2004. Klein, M., A.J. Gasiewski, K. Schuler, D. Cavalieri, T. Markus, and A. Yevgrafov. 2001. Sea ice brightness imagery observed during the Meltpond 2002 experiment. In Scanning the present and resolving the future, Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. Vol. VI, p. 2853-2855. Klein, M., and A.J. Gasiewski. 2002. Meltpond 2000 PSR processing - final report. Boulder, CO, USA: NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory. Klein, M., and A.J. Gasiewski. 2000. CAMEX3 polarimetric scanning radiometer MATLAB mapping software description. Boulder, CO, USA: NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory. Markus, T., D. J. Cavalieri, and A. Ivanoff. 2002. The potential of using Landsat 7 data for the classification of sea ice surface conditions during summer. Annals of Glaciology 34: 415-419. Markus, T., D. J. Cavalieri, M. A. Tschudi, and A. Ivanoff. 2003. Comparison of aerial video and Landsat 7 data over ponded sea ice. Remote Sensing of the Environment 86: 458-469.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20000626
Ending_Date: 20000706

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -105.02194
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -63.196945
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 76.42194
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 68.96694

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD PLATFORM
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD INSTRUMENT
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: PROJECT
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ANCILLARY KEYWORDS
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO TOPIC CATEGORY
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: DATA SET LANGUAGE
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE TEMPERATURE
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TEMPERATURE
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
Theme_Keyword: AIRCRAFT
Theme_Keyword: INFRARED RADIOMETERS
Theme_Keyword: RADIOMETERS
Theme_Keyword: EOSDIS > EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM DATA INFORMATION SYSTEM
Theme_Keyword: ESIP > EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION PARTNERS PROGRAM
Theme_Keyword: Aircraft
Theme_Keyword: Amsr-e
Theme_Keyword: Arctic Sea Ice
Theme_Keyword: Baffin Bay
Theme_Keyword: Canadian Arctic
Theme_Keyword: Daac
Theme_Keyword: Eosdis
Theme_Keyword: Meltpond2000
Theme_Keyword: Nasa
Theme_Keyword: Nsidc
Theme_Keyword: Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures
Theme_Keyword: Psr
Theme_Keyword: Radiometers
Theme_Keyword: Sea Ice
Theme_Keyword: Sea Ice Temperatures
Theme_Keyword: Slfmr
Theme_Keyword: IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER
Theme_Keyword: OCEANS
Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD
Place_Keyword: OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN
Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC
Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Access_Constraints: Not Available

Use_Constraints:

Not Available

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: MARIAN KLEIN

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: ALBIN J. GASIEWSKI

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: DONALD J. CAVALIERI

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: THORSTEN MARKUS

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory
Address: Division of Microwave Systems Development
Address: 325 Broadway
City: Boulder
State_or_Province: CO
Postal_Code: 80305-3328
Country: USA

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory
Address: Division of Microwave Systems Development
Address: 325 Broadway
City: Boulder
State_or_Province: CO
Postal_Code: 80305-3328
Country: USA

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes
Address: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Address: Code 614.1
City: Greenbelt
State_or_Province: MD
Postal_Code: 20771
Country: USA

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: Goddard Space Flight Center
Address: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Address: Instrumentation Sciences Branch
Address: Code 614.6
City: Greenbelt
State_or_Province: MD
Postal_Code: 20771
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 614-5901

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-614-5882

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 614-5644

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: marian.klein@noaa.gov

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: donald.j.cavalieri@nasa.gov

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: thorsten.markus@nasa.gov

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:: Data in the TB maps are not compensated for incident angle variations caused either by aicraft roll and pitch or, in the case of the SLFMR, by the cross-track scanning mode. Although the PSR scans at fixed angles, aircraft pitch and roll variations influence the incident angle by as much as +/- 3 deg in angle, or roughly +/- 7 K for vertical and +/- 4 K for horizontal polarization over water. All channels worked well providing approximately 0.5 K to 1 K root-mean-square (RMS) noise for 20 ms integration. One exception was the 89 GHz vertical channel, which was not calibrated due to spurious noise (Klein et al. 2001). The 89 GHz noise is presumed to be from iron epoxy debris on the sensor.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Not Available

Completeness_Report:

Not Available

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:: Not Available
Process_Date: Unknown

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NSIDC_DAAC > NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center
Contact_Person: NSIDC USER SERVICES

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
Address: University of Colorado
City: Boulder
State_or_Province: CO
Postal_Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +1 (303) 492-6199

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +1 (303) 492-2468

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nsidc@nsidc.org

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact_Person: NSIDC USER SERVICES

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
Address: University of Colorado
City: Boulder
State_or_Province: CO
Postal_Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +1 (303) 492-6199

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +1 (303) 492-2468

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nsidc@nsidc.org

Resource_Description: NSIDC-0208

Distribution_Liability:

Not Available

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: MATLAB data and programs
Transfer_Size: 647 MB total

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

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Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:: http://nsidc.org

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Digital_Transfer_Option:

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Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:: http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb/#utf8=%E2%9C%93...

Access_Instructions:

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Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:: http://polynya.gsfc.nasa.gov/seaice_mp2000.html

Access_Instructions:

Meltpond2000

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice/

Access_Instructions:

Sea Ice Data at NSIDC

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:: http://nsidc.org/data/amsr_validation/

Access_Instructions:

AMSR-E Validation Data

Fees: Not Available

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20040212

Metadata_Review_Date: 20120514

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: GCMD User Support Office
Contact_Organization: NASA Global Change Master Directory

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: Not Available
City: Lanham
State_or_Province: MD
Postal_Code: 20706
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: Not Available

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gcmduso@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

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