The EOS ClearingHouse (ECHO) is a metadata catalog of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) data and a registry for related data services provided by the NASA ESDIS Project, Code 423, GSFC. Users can access the data and services by using general or community-tailored clients that access ECHO's data and service holdings.   Working closely with this community, the ECHO team identified a need to develop the next generation EOS data and service discovery tool to replace the existing WIST, the Warehouse Inventory Search Tool.  

The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment was a NASA Earth science field experiment conducted August 5 to September 30, 2010. The major goal was to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. NASA used the DC-8 aircraft, the WB-57 aircraft and the Global Hawk Unmanned Airborne System (UAS), configured with a suite of in situ and remote sensing instruments that were used to observe and characterize the lifecycle of hurricanes.

The near real-time LANCE AMSR-E system at the AMSR-E SIPS and GHRC DAAC is pleased to
announce that we have integrated a new Version 11 L2A near real-time algorithm from Remote Sensing Systems
(RSS) into our processing systems. These much improved version 11 brightness temperatures, as well as the
corresponding L2B and L3 daily derived products, are available in the operational areas on our lance servers
at

The Light Precipitation Evaluation Experiment (LPVEx) took place in the Gulf of Finland
during September and October, 2010. Microphysical properties,
associated remote sensing observations, and coordinated model simulations of high latitude precipitation
systems to drive the evaluation and development of precipitation algorithms for current and future satellite
platforms were collected. LPVEx consisted of coordinated aircraft flights within an extensive network of ground-based observations

The AMSR-E SIPS at the GHRC DAAC would like to announce the availability of AMSR-E near real-time data subscriptions.
With a data subscription, we will push selected data products to a designated computer as soon as the products are
generated. In order to receive these products via subscription, you must be a registered
LANCE user. Please let us know if you are interested in using our subscription service for AMSR-E near real-time data.

The AMSR-E SIPS at the GHRC DAAC has implemented incremental daily processing for our AMSR-E near real-time Level 3 daily
(Ocean, Land, Snow, Sea Ice ) products. Partial products are created several times per day (currently every 3 hours) using
whatever L2 data is available at the time of creation, in order to reduce latency for these products. These partial files are
now available in our test areas at https://lance.nsstc.nasa.gov/amsr2-science/

The AMSR-E SIPS at the GHRC DAAC would like to announce the expanded availability of AMSR-E near
real-time data products through the Land Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). These near real-time
swath and daily products are generally available to registered users within three hours of observation. In order to
provide for full system redundancy, the SIPS has implemented a second string ftp server at http://lance.itsc.uah.edu/amsr2-science/. Users should obtain data from this location

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer – Earth Observing System Science Investigator-led Processing System (AMSR-E SIPS) at the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC DAAC) would like to announce the availability of AMSR-E near real-time data products.  The AMSRE-SIPS at the GHRC DAAC has generated climate research quality data products, since the launch of Aqua in the spring of 2002.

For more information or to obtain data, contact:

Global Hydrology Resource Center


320 Sparkman Drive

Huntsville, AL 35805

Phone: 256-961-7932

E-mail: ghrcdaac@itsc.uah.edu

Visit our web page at http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov

 

Dr. Rahul Ramachandran has been elected to serve as the chair of the IEEE Geosciences & Remote Sensing Society's (GRSS) Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee (DAD TC) for a two-year term. This committee provides recommendations and responses to issues related to the archiving and distribution of remotely sensed geospatial and geotemporal data. More information is available at the committee’s web site. Dr.