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An inventory of NASA's airborne and field campaigns for Earth Science chem26 Canopy characteristics: leaf chemistry, specific leaf area, LAI, PAR, IPAR, NPP, and standing biomass. model36 Steve Running's Forest-BGC Model lai45 LAI estimates computed from unweighted openness by the canopy program from digitized canopy photographs. spectralicor47 The variability of bi-directional spectral reflectance of cut conifer foilage between age classes, species and sites measured by LICOR. spectraperkin48 Absolute reflectance of leaves measured in the lab by Perkin-Elmer spectrophotometer to aid in understanding remotely sensed spectral data. meteo50 Meteorology data collected on an hourly basis from stations located near the OTTER sites in 1990 and summarized to monthly data. airsunp61 Airborne sun photometer data collected from 1990 through 1991 used to provide quantitative atmospheric correction to remotely sensed data of forest reflectance and radiance. fieldsunp65 Field sun photometer data collected from 1990 through 1991 is used to provide quantitative atmospheric correction to remotely sensed data of forest reflectance and radiance. spectratarget74 Spectral reflectance measurements of flat field targets as reference points representative of psuedo-invariant targets as measured by the Spectron SE590 spectrophotometer. spectrase590field80 Spectral reflectance measurements made by Spectron SE590 instruments in the context of validation of geometric-optical BRDF models. spectrase590lab83 Laboratory hemispherical reflectance spectra measurements taken to eliminate the effects of atmosphere, understory, exposed soils, mixed species and canopy architecture. spectrase590landscape84 Bidirectional spectral reflectance factors of landscape elements (litter, scrubs and grasses, leaves) measured by the Spectron SE590 spectroradiometer. spectrase590altitude86 Low altitude (Ultralight) spectral reflectances of OTTER research sites measured by Spectron SE590 spectrophotometer. timber125 Height, crown width, DBH, and height-to-crown distance collected using variable-radius plot sampling with a steel tape and a hand held compass to locate points along a transect. Data Discovery Explore this data using NASA's Earthdata Search, a comprehensive tool for discovering and visualizing Earth science datasets. Data Access Access requires an Earthdata Login account. Read our guide on obtaining AWS credentials to retrieve this data from AWS.
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