First Call for Abstracts
FD-8: Accessing and using MISR products in climate and environmental research
Sunday 12 July, 08:30 – 17:30
Presented by
Michel M. Verstraete, Charles Thompson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Abstract
Tutorial aims include: outlining the rationale and scientific objectives of the MISR mission embarked on the NASA Terra platform (launched in December 1999), as well as describing the instrument and how it functions; reviewing key scientific applications and underscoring notable results and achievements in characterizing clouds, atmospheric aerosols, winds, and land surface processes; describing how MISR data and products can be ordered and obtained (free of charge) from the appropriate NASA Langley Atmospheric Research Center web site; demonstrating how software tools (most of which are also freely available) can be used to analyze these products to meet specific scientific objectives, and allowing the participants to explore MISR data to address scientific issues of interest to them through hands-on exercises and explorations.
Speaker Biographies
Michel M. Verstraete obtained his Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from MIT in 1985 and has been working mostly on climate and remote sensing topics since then. He is the author or co-author of over 150 refereed publications and has been a member of the NASA JPL MISR Science Team since 1995.
Charles Thompson is working with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and is thoroughly familiar with the MISR data, products and software. He will supervise the hardware, software and network setup for the tutorial, install additional commercial and non-commercial software (with the appropriate licenses as needed), and present an overview of the software tools available.