Just got off a call with a group of people focusing on historical data discovery at the Natural Reserve System (NRS). This process is part of the recently funded Institute for the Study of Ecological Effects of Climate Impacts (ISEECI). People in the group include:
- Peter Alagona, historical ecologist, UCSB
- Jessica Blois, paleoecologist, UCM
- John Christensen, UCLA
- Jeffrey Diez, ecologist, UCR
- Becca Fenwick, ecologist, UCM
- Laurel Fox, UCSC
- Lynn McLaren, UCSC
- Peter Moyle, UCD
Of particular note was the introduction of the Online Archive of California, which is a collection of metadata about historical archives. Peter is adding all his data to the OAC. His work was funded through a Research Opportunity Fund grant through UCOP, and a NSF grant. The process the NRS has used is different than what we have done with the REC data. They have assembled metadata from the research reports from the stations, and full digitization can be opportunisic and focused on particular questions. There is a Zotero database of publications that have resulted from the reserves.
I don't use ocean color data, but found this report of interest nonetheless. From the HICO website. HICO is the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean.
HICO Operations Ended. March 20, 2015 In September 2014 during an X-class solar storm, HICO’s computer took a severe radiation hit, from which it never recovered. Over the past several months, engineers at NRL and NASA have attempted to restart the computer and have conducted numerous tests to find alternative pathways to communicate with it. None of these attempts have been successful. So it is with great sadness that we bid a fond farewell to HICO. Yet we rejoice that HICO performed splendidly for five years, despite being built in only 18 months from non space-hardened, commercial-off-the-shelf parts for a bargain price. Having met all its Navy goals in the first year, HICO was granted a two-year operations extension from the Office of Naval Research and then NASA stepped in to sponsor this ISS-based sensor, extending HICO’s operations another two years. All told, HICO operated for 5 years, during which it collected approximately 10,000 hyperspectral scenes of the earth. Most of the HICO scenes taken over sites worldwide are available now, and will remain accessible to researchers through two websites: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and http://hico.coas.oregonstate.edu. HICO will live on through research conducted by scientists using HICO data, especially studies exploring the complexities of the world’s coastal oceans.
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) published this week airborne remote sensing data including full waveform and discrete return LiDAR data and LiDAR derivatives (DTM, DSM, CHM) as well as corresponding hyperspectral data, orthophotos, and field data on vegetation strucutre, foliar chemistry and ASD field spectra.
NEON Airborne Data Set.
From Sean's IGIS workshops this week.
Base Layers
- State of California Geoportal http://portal.gis.ca.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page
- National Data Clearinghouse at Data.gov https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization_type=Federal+Government&metadata_type=geospatial&organization=fws-gov
- Topographic Quadrangle Maps http://atlas.ca.gov/quads/
- Soils http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soilweb/
Land Cover and Wildlife Habitat
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife https://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/gis/map_services.asp
- Wildlife Habitat Relationships https://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/
- GAP Analysis Land Cover Data http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/gaplandcover/data/download/
- Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping (VTM) http://vtm.berkeley.edu/#/data/
Imagery
- NAIP Imagery
- https://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/gis/map_services.asp
- http://www.atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/imagery/naip
- Landsat Imagery http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
- MASTER (NASA’s Airborne ASTER/MODIS simulator) http://masterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/map/
Soils
- UC ANR California Soil Resource Lab http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soilweb/
Climate and Weather Data
California Geopolitical Boundaries
- CA State Regional Water Board Jurisdictions http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterboards_map.shtml
- Assembly, Senate, Congressional, Equalization Districts http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/maps-first-drafts.html
Digital Elevation Models
- ASTER DEM (30m) http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
- National Elevation Dataset (3, 10, & 30m)
- http://nationalmap.gov/elevation.html
- http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/
Congratulations to the NASA NEX Team! They have won the 2014 HPCwire Readers’ & Editors’ Choice Award for the Best Data-Intensive System (End User focused). See the article here: NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Platform supports dozens of data-intensive projects in Earth sciences.
The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) platform supports dozens of data-intensive projects in Earth sciences, bringing together supercomputers and huge volumes of NASA data, and enabling scientists to test hypotheses and execute modeling/analysis projects at a scale previously out of their reach. NEX-supported applications range from modeling El Niño, creating neighborhood-scale climate projections, assisting in crop water management, and mapping changes in forest structure across North America, to mapping individual tree crowns at continental scale as a foundation for new global science at unprecedented spatial resolution. NEX’s OpenNEX challenge ties in to White House initiatives, including Open Data, Big Data and Climate Data, which advance national goals to address climate change impacts and include competitions and challenges to foster regional innovation.
The GIF has been partnering with NASA NEX, and developing a framework to bring NEX data and analytical capabilities into HOLOS.