Open AccessBigfoot Field Manual, Version 2.1
Author(s) -
John L. Campbell,
S. N. Burrows,
Stith Tom Gower,
Warren B. Cohen
Publication year - 1999
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/13418
Subject(s) - oak ridge national laboratory , consistency (knowledge bases) , field (mathematics) , computer science , environmental science , mathematics , artificial intelligence , physics , nuclear physics , pure mathematics
The BigFoot Project is funded by the Earth Science Enterprise to collect and organize data to be used in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Observing System (EOS) Validation Program. The data collected by the BigFoot Project are unique in being ground-based observations coincident with satellite overpasses. In addition to collecting data, the BigFoot project will develop and test new algorithms for scaling point measurements to the same spatial scales as the EOS satellite products. This BigFoot Field Manual will be used to achieve completeness and consistency of data collected at four initial BigFoot sites and at future sites that may collect similar validation data. Therefore, validation datasets submitted to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center that have been compiled in a manner consistent with the field manual will be especially valuable in the validation program