CEOS Visualization Environment (COVE) Tool for Intercalibration of Satellite Instruments

Increasingly, data from multiple instruments are used to gain a more complete understanding of land surface processes at a variety of scales. Intercalibration, comparison, and coordination of satellite instrument coverage areas is a critical effort of international and domestic space agencies and or...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 2013-03, Vol.51 (3), p.1081-1087
Main Authors: Kessler, P. D., Killough, B. D., Gowda, S., Williams, B. R., Chander, G., Min Qu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquisition
Calibration
CEOS Visualization Environment (COVE)
coincident ground observation
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
Communities
Earth
Google
Instruments
iPad
iPhone
Orbits
Remote sensing
Satellite broadcasting
Satellites
Simplified General Perturbation 4 (SGP4)
swath
Systems Tool Kit (STK)
Visualization
Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV)
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Summary:Increasingly, data from multiple instruments are used to gain a more complete understanding of land surface processes at a variety of scales. Intercalibration, comparison, and coordination of satellite instrument coverage areas is a critical effort of international and domestic space agencies and organizations. The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Visualization Environment (COVE) is a suite of browser-based applications that leverage Google Earth to display past, present, and future satellite instrument coverage areas and coincident calibration opportunities. This forecasting and ground coverage analysis and visualization capability greatly benefits the remote sensing calibration community in preparation for multisatellite ground calibration campaigns or individual satellite calibration studies. COVE has been developed for use by a broad international community to improve the efficiency and efficacy of such calibration planning efforts, whether those efforts require past, present, or future predictions. This paper provides a brief overview of the COVE tool, its validation, accuracies, and limitations with emphasis on the applicability of this visualization tool for supporting ground field campaigns and intercalibration of satellite instruments.
ISSN:0196-2892
1558-0644
DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2012.2235841