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NASA EOS REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS
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ACRIMSAT - Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
Monitor total solar irradiance. Focus areas are climate variability and change, and water and energy cycle. Data will be correlated with possible global warming data, ice cap shrinkage data, and ozone layer depletion data.
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AQUA
Monitor atmospheric, land, ocean, and ice variables for improved understanding of the Earth’s water cycle and improved understanding of the intricacies of the climate system.
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AURA
Measure atmospheric chemical composition; tropospheric/stratospheric exchange of energy and chemicals; chemistry-climate interactions; air quality.
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CALIPSO - Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
Measure the vertical distribution of clouds and aerosols) to study the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth's weather, climate and air quality (joint with France). |
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CLOUDSAT
Measure cloud characteristics, to increase the understanding of the role of optically thick clouds in Earth’s radiation budget (joint with Canada). |
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EARTH OBSERVING-1 (EO-1)
Collect data to allow paired scene comparisons between EO-. Advanced Land Imager (ALI) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+).
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GRACE - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
Measure Earth’s gravity field and its variations with time (joint with Germany). Study changes due to surface and deep currents in the ocean; runoff and ground water storage on land masses; exchanges between ice sheets or glaciers and the oceans; and variations of mass within the Earth. |
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ICESAT - Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite
Measures ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, stratospheric clouds common over polar areas, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. |
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JASON 1
Monitor ocean height to study ocean circulation (joint with France).
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LAGEOS - Laser Geodynamics Satellites
Provide an orbiting benchmark for geodynamical studies of the Earth. Determine the planet's shape (geoid) and, tectonic plate movements associated with continental drift.
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LANDSAT-7
Monitor the land surface through high-spatial-resolution visible and infrared measurements (joint with USGS). |
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OSTM (JASON-2) - Ocean Surface Topography Mission
Map ocean surface topography and the data collected will provide information on ocean surface current velocity and heights.
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QUIKSCAT - Quick Scatterometer
Measure ocean surface wind vectors, with the SeaWinds instrument.
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SORCE - Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
Measure the total and spectral solar irradiance incident at the top of Earth’s atmosphere.
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TERRA
The flagship satellite of NASA's Earth observing systems. Collect global data on the state of the atmosphere, land, and
oceans, and their interactions with solar radiation and with one another. |
ICCARS is funded by a two-year NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) grant awarded to Wayne RESA and Eastern Michigan University. The outcome of this two-year grant is for students and teachers to have a working understanding of the science behind global climate change and its relationship to human activity, in particular its relationship to land-use and land-cover changes on multiple scales, through use of NASA data products and models.
