CAR Discover AQ BRDF Measurements V2 (CAR_DISCOVERAQ_BRDF_2)

Description

DISCOVER-AQ, a NASA Earth Venture program funded mission, stands for Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality. In recent years, progress in reaching air quality goals has begun to plateau for many locations. Furthermore, near-surface pollution is one of the most challenging problems for Earth observations from space. However, with an improved ability to monitor pollution from satellites from DISCOVER-AQ, scientists could make better air quality forecasts, more accurately determine the sources of pollutants in the air and more closely determine the fluctuations in emissions levels. In short, the more accurate data scientists have at hand, the better society is able to deal effectively with lingering pollution problems. During the DISCOVER-AQ mission in 2014, the CAR instrument was flown aboard NASA P-3 aircraft and obtained measurements of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) at different scales over agricultural and urban areas in Colorado, USA. This data set consists of observations made with the CAR instrument and includes values for bidirectional reflectance factor at varying spectral bands.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Access the data via the OPenDAP protocol. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/CAR/CAR_DISCOVERAQ_BRDF.2/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FN5DD9C13A0LX
22 CAR_DISCOVERAQ_L1C_1.jpg https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/CAR_DISCOVERAQ_L1C_1.jpg
21 CAR Project Home Page https://car.gsfc.nasa.gov/
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/CAR/CAR_DISCOVERAQ_BRDF.2/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=CAR_DISCOVERAQ_BRD
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/CAR_DISCOVERAQ_BRDF_2.html
33 README Document https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/CAR/CAR_BRDF_README-v2.pdf

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  • land-surface
  • oceans
  • ocean-optics
  • surface-radiative-properties
  • earth-science

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