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Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE)

Overview

Chihuahuan Desert, Las Cruces, NM, USAThe Prototype Validation Exercise (PROVE) was a mini field campaign conducted in May 1997. Three different NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) instrument teams were involved: MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectrometer), MISR (Multi-angle Imaging Spectro Radiometer), and ASTER (Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer). Coordinated field, aircraft, and satellite measurements were designed to maximize data collection and conduct cross comparisons. The 1997 campaigns were conducted in a grassland-shrub site on the Jornada Experimental Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico, and in a deciduous forest on the Walker Branch Watershed site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee.


Prototype Validation Exercise Datasets List

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*PROVE Land Cover and Leaf Area of Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, 1997 2003-05-05 user guide download 479.0KB
*PROVE MQUALS Reflectance at Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, 1997 2003-05-05 user guide download 380.9KB
*PROVE Surface albedo of Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, 19972003-05-05 user guide download 142.7MB
*PROVE Vegetation Reflectance of Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, 1997 2003-05-05 user guide download 583.8KB

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