Hobart

Seminar Abstract

Monday* 10 November 2008, 11.30am (Tas time)
CSIRO Auditorium, Hobart

Stanford Hooker
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Maryland, USA

The NASA Calibration and Validation Office (CVO): preparing for the next NASA mission

The primary objective of CVO is to establish a long-term capability for calibrating and validating oceanic biogeochemical satellite data for the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) program at NASA HQ. The long-term OBB programmatic requirements are articulated in an Advanced Science Plan, "On the Shores of a Living Ocean: The Unseen World," which was drafted by a subset of the scientific community led by the OBB Program Manager (the Advanced Science Plan is available from http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/DOCS). The designated mission themes from this plan, along with the corresponding high-priority research questions, highlight the science and mission concepts the calibration and validation activity must help enable. Much of the envisioned future for NASA ocean color remote sensing involves a significant amount of research in the coastal zone. The present emphasis of the CVO is primarily on the protocols and uncertainties associated with marine research. Applications of these endeavors include a) refining the sampling procedures for biogeochemical analyses (through field experiments and round robins), b) improving the in situ measurements of apparent and inherent optical properties (AOPs and IOPs, respectively), and c) establishing calibration and validation activities for the next-generation coupled ocean-atmosphere ocean color satellite. This presentation will discuss all three of these endeavors with special attention to the practical advancements being achieved in AOP instruments and how the new capabilities will be applied to the next NASA mission.

Seminar Recording

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Location:
CSIRO = Marine Laboratories Auditorium, Castray Esplanade, Hobart

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