BOREAS RSS-03 Reflections Measured from a Helicopter-Mounted Barnes MMR

Summary:

The RSS-03 team acquired helicopter-based measurements of forested sites during BOREAS with a Barnes MMR. The data were collected in 1994 during the rhree BOREAS IFCs at numerous tower and auxiliary sites in both the NSA and SSA. The 15-degree FOV of the MMR yielded approximately 79 m from the 300 m altitude ground resolution. The MMR has seven spectral bands that are similar to the Landsat TM bands, ranging from the blue region to the thermal. Note:

A guide document which includes more information about this data set can be found at https://daac.ornl.gov/data/boreas/RSS/rss3hmmr/comp/RSS03_Helo_MMR.txt.

ORNL DAAC maintains information on the entire BOREAS Project.

Data Citation

Cite this data set as follows:

Walthall, C. L., and S. Loechel. 1998. BOREAS RSS-03 Reflections Measured from a Helicopter-Mounted Barnes MMR. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/290.

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Data Format:

For information on Parameter/Variable Names, Variable Description/Definition, Units of Measurement, and Data File Format see this companion file https://daac.ornl.gov/data/boreas/RSS/rss3hmmr/comp/rss3hmmr.def

Document Information:

16-Sept-1998 (data citation revised on 26-Sep-2002)

Document Review Date:

16-Sept-1998

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