overview of the nasa applied remote sensing training (arset) program
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Overview of the NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Program. Outline NASA Capacity Building Program ARSET Activities How can ARSET help Applied Science Team members?. A project of NASA Applied Sciences. Amita V. Mehta and Ana I. Prados - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
A project of NASA Applied Sciences
Overview of the NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Program
Amita V. Mehta and Ana I. Prados
NASA-University of Maryland Baltimore County Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET)
NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Meeting 24 April 2013 [email protected], [email protected]
Outline
NASA Capacity Building Program
ARSET Activities
How can ARSET help Applied Science Team members?
NASA’s Capacity Building Program
SERVIR Coordination Office (MSFC)Building international capacity with hubs in
-East Africa -Hindu Kush - Himalaya
-Mesoamerica
Gulf of Mexico Initiative, GOMI (SSC)Building Gulf region’s capacity for local
environmental management
Applied Remote SEnsing Training, ARSET (GSFC)
On-line and hands on basic/advanced training tailored to end-uses organizations
DEVELOP (LaRC national office)Dual student/local government capacity
building using collaborative projects22
NASA Earth ScienceApplied Sciences Program
Ecological Ecological ForecastingForecasting
AgriculturalAgriculturalEfficiencyEfficiency
Weather Weather
ClimateClimate
WaterWaterResourcesResources
Disaster Disaster ManagementManagement
Public HealthPublic Health
Applications to Decision Making: Thematic Areas
Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET)
Objectives•Provide end-users with professional technical workshops•Build long term partnerships with communities and institutions in the public and private sectors.
Online and hands-on courses:• Who: policy makers, environmental managers, modelers and other professionals in the public and private sectors.
Where: U.S. and internationally
• When: throughout the year.
• Do NOT require prior remote- sensing background.• Presentations and guided computer exercises and case studies on how to access, interpret and use NASA satellite images for decision-support.
Hands on Training
ARSET Trainings Include:Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling Data
Satellite Data
In Situ Data
NumericalModels
Basic in person course • For individuals and institutions new to remote sensing
Basic online courses • Provide background material
in preparation for in person trainings
Advanced in person and online courses
• Focused on a specific application/problem: for example monitoring fire and smoke in the western US (summer 2012), sever flooding in Mozambique (January 2013).
• Requires basic online or in person course.
ARSET Training Activities
• Advertise via list-serv and Webpage• Collaborate with NASA Applied Science PIs• Collaborate with NASA Data Centers
• Advertise via list-serv and Webpage• Collaborate with NASA Applied Science PIs• Collaborate with NASA Data Centers
• Identify end-users/host-institution
• Discuss and plan training
• Identify end-users/host-institution
• Discuss and plan training
Prepare Training Modules
Prepare Training Modules
Conduct Training :Online PresentationsHands-on activities Case Studies
Conduct Training :Online PresentationsHands-on activities Case Studies
Project Evaluation: Surveys and Feedback
Project Evaluation: Surveys and Feedback
What is Remote Sensing?Instruments/sensors and types
Types of satellite orbit around the earth
Spatial and Temporal Resolutions and Coverage
Overview of parameters available from NASA
Geophysical quantities derived from satellite measurements
quality and accuracy of the derived quantities
availability, access, format
applications and usage
Basic Training
End-users requested and designed for their needs
Specific data parameters and applications
Learn: > details of data formats, download, analysis tools > how to incorporate in Decision Support Tools
> Computer-based case studies
Advanced Training
Examples:
Using AIRS CO to Track Forest Fire Plumes
Flood Monitoring over Mozambique
Basic Training Web-Tools
Access to imagery, Data analysis and visualization Access to imagery, Data analysis and visualization without downloadingwithout downloadingExamplesExamples::Giovanni http://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/
GLOVIS http://glovis.usgs.gov/
Examples:Examples:
Global Land Cover Facility http://glcf.umd.edu/data/
TRMM near-real time TRMM near-real time http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/FloodFlood MonitoringMonitoring publications_dir/publications_dir/
potential_flood_hydro.htmlpotential_flood_hydro.html
Advanced Training Web-ToolsData and Application Focus
Heavy Rain in Early May caused Severe Flooding in Tennessee, Arkansas
TRMM-TMPA 3B42 Over a large area rainfall greater than 50 mm day
was observed on 1 May 2011
From Giovanni web-tool
0.5 10 20 30 40 500.5 10 20 30 40 50
Daily Precipitation (mm/day) 01 May 2011
Lower Mississippi Flood
Total Atmospheric Moisture Dramatically increased between April 30th and May 1, 2011 -- from MERRA
From Giovanni web-tool
Cloudiness increases between April 30th and May 1, 2011 -- from AIRS
Lower Mississippi Flood
April 30 MAY 1
Orbital Gaps
Ascending
orbitD
escending orbit
Cloud fraction (fraction of a grid covered by clouds) – from 0 (totally cloud-free) to 1 (total overcast)
From Giovanni web-tool
22001100
July 12-27 2010 July 12-27 2011
MODIS NDVI over US Southern Plains
Much sparser vegetation in 2012
From http://pekko.geog.umd.edu/usda/beta/
ARSET Trainings by Societal Benefit Area
2009 – March 2013: +800 End-users Reached
Since 2008
Since 2011
Number of Trainings per State
1515
ARSET Trainings: : 2009 – March 2013
Does NOT include Federal Agencies:
NOAA, USGS, USAID, USACE, BLM, Bureau Rec
US Forest Service, National Park Service, EPA
Number of Trainings + Participating Organizations
1616
Include:CountyStateTribalAcademicPrivate Sector
ARSET Trainings International: 2009 – March 2013
1717
ARSET Trainings International: 2009 – March 2013
Air Quality
• Online course: February –
March
• Hands-on course: Salt Lake
City, Utah- April 22-25
Recent Training Activities
Water Resources/Disasters
• Online course: February – • March (snow Products)Products)
• Hands-on course:Hands-on course: World World Bank, Washington DC, Bank, Washington DC, March 7March 7
Ecoforecasting-related training (New)Fall 2013- Summer 2014
ARSET Air Quality http://airqualityr.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Publically available
modules and case studies
Training Schedule
ARSET Water Resource Management http://water.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Publically available modules and case studies
in English and Spanish
Training Schedule
NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Websites• http://water.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (Water/Disasters)• http://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (Air Quality)
Water Resources/Disasters• https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/nasa-water-
training
Updates and notification of upcoming workshops Air Quality• https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/arset
ARSET Web Sites and UpdatesUpdates
ARSET: Summary
• NASA remote sensing and model-based data applications
• Web-based tools available for data access, analysis, and downloading
• Choices of quantities from various sources according to applications and end-user needs
• ARSET Team works with end-users through ‘hands-on’ trainings to facilitate applications and decision support activities
Where Do You Come in?
• ARSET works directly with NASA-funded PIs
• ARSET can help disseminate YOUR applied research and decision support tools
• For more information and for scheduling trainings please Contact:
Ana Prados [email protected]
Thank You!