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PROTOTYPE VALIDATION EXERCISE Project Description
The Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE) was a mini field campaign conducted at the Jornada Experimental Range in the Chihuahuan Desert, near Las Cruces, New Mexico in May 1997. The goals of PROVE were to: * Gain experience in the collection and use of field data for EOS product validation * Develop protocols for coordination, measurement, and data archival * Compile a synoptic land and atmospheric data set for testing algorithms The remote-sensing portion of PROVE involved investigators from three NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) instrument teams: * MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) * ASTER (Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer) * MISR (Multi-Angle Imaging Spectro Radiometer) The campaign also coincided with the AVIRIS (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) flight coordinated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and with Jornada Long-Term Ecological Research projects in the same basin. http://daac.ornl.gov/PROVE/prove.shtml [Summary provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] |
