Analysis ready very high-resolution commercial optical remote sensing products for biodiversity monitoring
Abstract
Commercial very high-resolution (VHR) Earth observing (EO) satellites have grown into constellations with global repeat coverage that can support observational requirements from the biodiversity community with stereo and multispectral capabilities. Sub-meter data from these instruments can provide site level information that is important for scaling with moderate resolution EO data. Concurrently, through agreements with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center is acquiring VHR EO imagery from DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1, 2, 3, 4, Quickbird-2, GeoEye-1 and IKONOS-2 satellites. We have enhanced the utility of these data with an Application Program Interface (API) to produce on-demand, user defined, analysis ready science products from open source software on NASA GSFC's high end computing cluster. These enhancements include two primary foci: 1) surface reflectance 1/2° orthorectified mosaics - from multi-temporal 2 m multispectral imagery; and 2) VHR digital elevation models (DEMs) - derived with the NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline. Here we present an overview of current API capabilities and recent examples of derived VHR products used in NASA Earth Science projects.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.B21A..02N
- Keywords:
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- 0410 Biodiversity;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0439 Ecosystems;
- structure and dynamics;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0480 Remote sensing;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 1910 Data assimilation;
- integration and fusion;
- INFORMATICS