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PROJECT INFORMATION
This ESIP-3 will inaugurate a regional assessment of the Upper Rio Grande
Basin to determine where EOS-AMI image and data products can be extended to broader user
communities. The approach is to create a regional advisory board from participants in
resource management projects focusing on land economics, regional hydrology, and air
quality. A prototype application for each focus topic will be demonstrated. The land
economics module will address land surface information needs in an area where mandated
management responsibilities and ground data collection methods are highly fragmented, and
often conflicting. The regional hydrology module will address surface water fluxes and
their relationship to ground water recharge in context of EOS and other remote sensor data
products; and the air quality module will address mechanisms for integrating ground
measurements with a variety of NASA-generated measurements. Earth Data Analysis Center
will serve as a bridge between its advisory board and the WP-Federation to define EOS-AMI
products, and then design the delivery systems required to make products functional in
customized applications. Tasks in the five-year Cooperative Agreement will culminate in
working prototypes for GIS/LIS applications that have EOS-AMI products designed into them.
Access to these products will be through the EOSDIS V0 Gateway, the NSDI clearinghouse
node at the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC), and Internet browsers. Design of the
graphical user interfaces that will drive online search and query sessions on the Internet
will incorporate a data structure by which climate change research can also be pursued
using local and regional data sets. The 5-year goal of the ESIP-3 is to establish a
sustainable, university-based outreach program that will extend use of NASA-generated data
sets and products in the region. By incorporating EOS technology into its programs, EDAC
hopes to expand its established role as a data analyst and information provider in the
Southwest.
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