A Web-Based Subsetting Service for Regional Scale MODIS Land Products

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 319-328

  Santhana Vannan, Suresh K ^a   Cook, Robert B ^a   Holladay, Susan K ^a   Olsen, Lisa Mai ^a   Wilson, Bruce E ^a   Dadi, Upendra ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data management; data processing; MODIS; remote sensing; visualization

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL DYNAMICS; DATA ARCHIVES; DATA DELIVERY; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SOURCE; DESIGN GOAL; EARTH SYSTEMS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD RESEARCH; FILE SIZES; GLOBAL SCALE; HDF-EOS; IN-FIELD; INTERCOMPARISONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL TOOL; REGIONAL SCALE; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; USER COMMUNITIES; WEB-BASED VISUALIZATION;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NASA; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

DATA PROCESSING; EOS; GIS; INTERNET; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 76249112582     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2036585     Document Type: Article

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