EOS-WEBSTER - Providing Satellite Imagery for Everyone

The University of New Hampshire's WEB-based System for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (EOS-WEBSTER) distributes a special collection of data and imagery products for the Earth Science community. This collection includes satellite imagery from several sensors including the MODIS instrument aboard TERRA. Our services have been designed so that different types of users can access and use only the data that they want. Users can search EOS-WEBSTER's collections, create spatial and temporal subsets, and order data in ASCII or binary formats. We have developed a suite of MODIS products covering Amazonia. These products serve the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Project in Amazonia (LBA), a joint project of the Brazilian government and NASA. Products include 8-day reflectances (MOD09A1), daily fire potential (MOD14A1), and 16-day NDVIs (MOD13Q1), starting in January 2001. EOS-WEBSTER takes care of obtaining the 14 MODIS tiles that cover Amazonia and stitching them together into a seamless regional coverage. Users can cookie-cut the regional data into smaller areas of interest, such as a field site, a political boundary, or a watershed, then choose an output format such as GrADS and retrieve their order by ftp or on CD-ROM. EOS-WEBSTER delivers MODIS to users whether or not they can manipulate the HDF-EOS format. These regional data sets were developed in cooperation with Eros Data Center to facilitate use of MODIS products by the LBA community. Other products and regions can be developed for other user communities if there is enough interest. Please contact us at support@eos-webster.sr.unh.edu for more information. MODIS is only one of a variety of imagery products available from EOS-WEBSTER. Other platforms include Landsat, SPOT-VEGETATION and IKONOS. We provide Landsat imagery data access to educators by supporting the Forest Watch program, an educational project that includes K-12 teachers and students in UNH research activities that assess the state-of-health of local forest stands. EOS-WEBSTER is a member of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (http://esipfed.org) and can be viewed at http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu.