Satellite Observations from PACE: addressing environmental challenges and enhancing environmental management decisions
Abstract
With advanced global remote sensing capabilities, the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will extend and improve NASA's 20-plus years of global satellite observations of our living ocean, aerosols, and clouds and initiate an advanced set of climate-relevant data records. The combination of climate-quality, global atmospheric and ocean observations provided by PACE will provide a unique capability to understand processes that affect our ecosystem services, implement science-based management strategies of inland, coastal and marine resources, support assessments and policy analyses, and design approaches to plan adaptation and responses to climate change.
Among the main objectives of the PACE Applications Program is to identify potential user communities (e.g. operational users, policy implementers, the commercial sector, educators, the general public) and areas of applications for this NASA mission, to ensure that the product suite and delivery mechanisms maximize the usefulness of the data. Here, we discuss some of the PACE Applications Program activities to engage the satellite data user community and build the capacity to use PACE observations towards addressing environmental challenges and enhancing environmental management decisions.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMPA23A1150T
- Keywords:
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- 0815 Informal education;
- EDUCATION;
- 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1976 Software tools and services;
- INFORMATICS;
- 6630 Workforce;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES