For example, cloud cover can make tropical forest monitoring with optical satellite data quite challenging. A reasonable "requirement" from the forest monitoring community through GFOI could be to monitor the forests in the humid tropics every six months (presence, changes, health, etc.). CEOS Agency resources, such as satellites with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments would likely be sought to meet such a requirement. The job of the LSI-VC would be to: Collect these requirements across various WGs and initiatives, Identify the CEOS Agency assets that help fulfill such requirements, Assess if/where gaps in coverage occur, and Determine how CEOS Agencies might work collectively to help mitigate those gaps. data products from specific sensors that Non-Domain-Specific Products Validated — have undergone higher-order processing. Examples include: surface reflectance land surface temperature gamma-nought These products may also be documented, standardized and cross calibrated—working with the CEOS WG on Calibration and Validation (WGCV), the CEOS-CGMS WGClimate, the CEOS WG on Information Systems and Services (WGISS), and the CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO)—to make them as useful as possible to CEOS and, potentially, the broader global community (they can be provided once and used many times). Services The identification and documentation of the characteristics of — data. Such characteristics will include: Geographic reference, Gridding/resolution, Spectral corrections, and more. The LSI-VC Focus The LSI-VC will trial on developing and implementing coordinated solutions across the following four themes: Optimizing global, increasingly high-volume data flows Promoting analysis-ready data and minimizing the need for end users to understand satellite/pass/sensor-specific processing Exploring ways to implement and sustain new approaches to managing and analyzing large data structures (e.g. Data Cubes)
For example, cloud cover can make tropical forest monitoring with optical satellite data quite challenging. A reasonable "requirement" from the forest monitoring community through GFOI could be to monitor the forests in the humid tropics every six months (presence, changes, health, etc.). CEOS Agency resources, such as satellites with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments would likely be sought to meet such a requirement. The job of the LSI-VC would be to: Collect these requirements across various WGs and initiatives, Identify the CEOS Agency assets that help fulfill such requirements, Assess if/where gaps in coverage occur, and Determine how CEOS Agencies might work collectively to help mitigate those gaps. Non-Domain-Specific Products — Validated data products from specific sensors that have undergone higher-order processing. Examples include: surface reflectance land surface temperature gamma-nought These products may also be documented, standardized and cross calibrated—working with the CEOS WG on Calibration and Validation (WGCV), the CEOS-CGMS WGClimate, the CEOS WG on Information Systems and Services (WGISS), and the CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO)—to make them as useful as possible to CEOS and, potentially, the broader global community (they can be provided once and used many times). Services — The identification and documentation of the characteristics of data. Such characteristics will include: Geographic reference, Gridding/resolution, Spectral corrections, and more. The LSI-VC Focus The LSI-VC will on developing and implementing coordinated solutions across the following four themes: Optimizing global, increasingly high-volume data flows Promoting analysis-ready data and minimizing the need for end users to understand satellite/pass/sensor-specific processing Exploring ways to implement and sustain new approaches to managing and analyzing large data structures (e.g. Data Cubes) trial
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