Summary:

The RSS-19 team collected CASI images from the Chieftain Navaho aircraft in order to observe the seasonal change in the radiometric reflectance properties of the boreal forest landscape. CASI was deployed as a site-specific optical sensor as part of BOREAS. The overall objective of the CASI deployment was to observe the seasonal change in the radiometric reflectance properties of the boreal forest landscape. In 1996, image data were collected with CASI on 15 days during a field campaign between 18-July and 01-August, primarily at flux tower sites located at study sites near Thompson, Manitoba, and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. A subset of the data is available from the BOREAS Information System (BORIS). Radiance and at-ground modeled reflectance images have been provided. This subset of CASI-processed data corresponds to the data for CASI Mission 3 described in Section 4.1.3 of the complete guide document. A variety of CASI data collection strategies were used to meet the following scientific objectives: 1) canopy bidirectional reflectance, 2) canopy biochemistry, 3) spatial variability, and 4) estimates of up and downwelling PAR spectral albedo, as well as changes along transects across lakes at the southern site and transects between the NSA and SSA. The images are stored as binary image files.

A guide document which includes more information about this data set can be found at https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/boreas/RSS/r19cas96/comp/RSS19_CASI_IMG_1996.txt.

ORNL DAAC maintains information on the entire BOREAS Project.

Data Citation

Cite this data set as follows:

Miller, J. R. 2000. BOREAS RSS-19 1996 CASI At-Sensor Radiance and Reflectance Images. 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/538.

References:

Achal, S. 1991. Personal Communication.

Gray, L.H., J.R. Freemantle, P.R. Shepherd, J.R. Miller, J.W. Harron, and C.H. Hersom. 1997. Characterization and Calibration of the CASI Airborne Imaging Spectrometer for BOREAS. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (Special issue on BOREAS), Vol. 23, No. 2, June 1997, pp. 188-195.

Harron, J.W., J.R. Freemantle, A.B. Hollinger and J.R. Miller. 1992. Methodologies and Errors in the Calibration of a Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (Special issue on Imaging Spectrometry), Vol. 18, No. 4, Oct. 1992, pp. 243-249.

Harron, J.W., J.R. Freemantle, L.H. Gray, P.R. Shepherd, C.H. Hersom, J.R. Miller, and A.B. Hollinger. 1995. Radiometric calibration measures for the multi-temporal BOREAS projects: results of the inter-agency cross calibration and temporal stability of CASI responsivity. Proceedings of the 17th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, 13-16 June, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, p. 202-207.

Newcomer, J., D. Landis, S. Conrad, S. Curd, K. Huemmrich, D. Knapp, A. Morrell, J. Nickeson, A. Papagno, D. Rinker, R. Strub, T. Twine, F. Hall, and P. Sellers, eds. 2000. Collected Data of The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study. NASA. CD-ROM.

O'Neill, N.T., F. Zagolski, M. Bergeron, A. Royer, J. Miller, and J. Freemantle. 1997. Atmospheric Correction Validation of CASI Images Acquired over the BOREAS Southern Study Area. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (Special issue on BOREAS), Vol. 23, No. 2, June 1997, pp. 143-162.

Sellers, P. and F. Hall. 1994. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: Experiment Plan. Version 1994-3.0, NASA BOREAS Report (EXPLAN 94).

Sellers, P. and F. Hall. 1996. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: Experiment Plan. Version 1996-2.0, NASA BOREAS Report (EXPLAN 96).

Sellers, P., F. Hall, and K.F. Huemmrich. 1996. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: 1994 Operations. NASA BOREAS Report (OPS DOC 94).

Sellers, P., F. Hall, and K.F. Huemmrich. 1997. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: 1996 Operations. NASA BOREAS Report (OPS DOC 96).

Sellers, P., F. Hall, H. Margolis, B. Kelly, D. Baldocchi, G. den Hartog, J. Cihlar, M.G. Ryan, B. Goodison, P. Crill, K.J. Ranson, D. Lettenmaier, and D.E. Wickland. 1995. The boreal ecosystem-atmosphere study (BOREAS): an overview and early results from the 1994 field year. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 76(9):1549-1577.

Sellers, P.J., F.G. Hall, R.D. Kelly, A. Black, D. Baldocchi, J. Berry, M. Ryan, K.J. Ranson, P.M. Crill, D.P. Lettenmaier, H. Margolis, J. Cihlar, J. Newcomer, D. Fitzjarrald, P.G. Jarvis, S.T. Gower, D. Halliwell, D. Williams, B. Goodison, D.E. Wickland, and F.E. Guertin. 1997. BOREAS in 1997: Experiment Overview, Scientific Results and Future Directions. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24): 28,731-28,770.

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/daacdata/boreas/RSS/r19cas96/comp/r19cas96.def

Document Information:

27-Apr-2000 (data citation revised on 27-Sep-2002)

Document Review Date:

27-Apr-2000

Document Curator:

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Document URL:

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