Publisher's Synopsis
The BOREAS RSS-19 team collected CASI images from the Chieftain Navaho aircraft in order to observe the seasonal change in the radiometric reflectance properties of the boreal forest landscape. CASI was deployed as a site-specific optical sensor as part of BOREAS. The overall objective of the CASI deployment was to observe the seasonal change in the radiometric reflectance properties of the boreal forest landscape. In 1996, image data were collected with CASI on 15 days during a field campaign between 18-July and 01 -August, primarily at flux tower sites located at study sites near Thompson, Manitoba, and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. A variety of CASI data collection strategies were used to meet the following scientific objectives: 1) canopy bidirectional reflectance, 2) canopy biochemistry, 3) spatial variability, and 4) estimates of up and downwelling PAR spectral albedo, as well as changes along transects across lakes at the southern site and transects between the NSA and SSA. The images are stored as binary image files. The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884) or from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).Miller, John and Hall, Forrest G. (Editor) and Nickerson, Jaime (Editor) and Freemantle, Jim and Smith, David E. (Technical Monitor)Goddard Space Flight CenterBIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; OPTICAL MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; REFLECTANCE; SPECTRA; ALBEDO; DEPLOYMENT; ESTIMATES; FORESTS; LAKES; MANITOBA; RADIANCE; RADIOMETERS; SASKATCHEWAN; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; VARIABILITY...
