Title
GeoNEX: A Geostationary Earth Observatory at NASA Earth Exchange: Earth Monitoring from Operational Geostationary Satellite Systems
Abstract
The latest generation of geostationary satellites (Himawari 8/9, GOES-16/17, FY-4, GK-2A) carries sensors that closely mimic the spatial and spectral characteristics of widely used polar-orbiting, global monitoring sensors such as MODIS and VIIRS. When combined, data from various currently operating/planned geostationary platforms provide a geo-ring of hyper-temporal (5-10 minutes), multispectral observations at spatial resolutions as high as 500 m. These high frequency observations offer exciting new possibilities for monitoring our planet, including better retrievals of geophysical variables by overcoming cloud cover, enabling studies of diurnally varying phenomena in the atmosphere, land, and the oceans, and support operational decision-making in agriculture, hydrology and disaster management. The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) team, in collaboration with scientists from JAXA, KARI, NOAA and other international institutions, created the GeoNEX (www.nasa.gov/geonex) pipeline to integrate data from all available geostationary platforms and produce and distribute spatially, temporally, and radiometrically consistent data for the earth science community. We envision various institutions adapting the Geo component (e.g., GeoNOAA, GeoKARI, GeoChiba, GeoJAXA, GeoCMA) and customizing the pipeline and downstream products to serve the local/regional research and applied science communities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323435
IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
geostationary satellites,remote sensing,vegetation monitoring
Conference
2153-6996
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-6375-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
14