SISTER: DESIS L2A Resampled Surface Reflectance and Uncertainty 30 m V001

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Generated by the Space-based Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal pathfindER (SISTER) activity in support of the NASA Earth System Observatory's Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission, this dataset utilizes existing airborne and spaceborne sources to generate prototype data products spanning terrestrial ecosystems, inland and coastal aquatic ecosystems, hydrology, and geology. The objective of SISTER is to mature many of the workflows, algorithms, and data products envisioned for SBG, lay the groundwork to develop a robust cal/val network, and build a vigorous and expansive user community ahead of launch. This dataset contains experimental Level 2A resampled surface reflectances and reflectance uncertainties at 30-m spatial resolution derived from data measured by the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) instrument (https://www.dlr.de/eoc/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-13614). For the purposes of SISTER, only a handful of scenes have been selected from this mission, with a temporal range between 2021-08-20 and 2019-02-04 and a spatial coverage that is global in scale. DESIS samples spectra over the visible and near-infrared wavelength range from 400 to 1000 nm with a unique spectral resolution of 2.5 nm. The raw DESIS data is first processed to L1B orthocorrected calibrated radiance by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and then ingested into the SISTER platform for further downstream analysis. This collection was derived from native spectral resolution surface reflectances and reflectance uncertainties using a spectral resampling algorithm. Spectral resampling was performed in a two-step process. First, bands were aggregated and averaged to the closest resolution to the target resolution (10 nm). Next, a piecewise cubic interpolator was used to interpolate the spectra to the target wavelength spacing. The output products are provided in ENVI format with values expressed as percentages in the range 0-1.

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