Introduction and Goals

More than 30 years of daily global AVHRR and MODIS data have been processed to create seamless Earth Science Data Records (ESDR) of Vegetation Index and Land Surface Phenology parameters. Starting June 2012, the MEaSUREs VIP team is making Version 2 of these records available while planning the reprocessing of a new Version 3.

The goals of this workshop are to introduce these ESDRs, their characteristics, limitations, and use in a variety of applications and research topics, and aims to solicit user feedback about these ESDR records. The workshop is organized into plenary, poster, and breakout discussion sessions aimed at bringing together the data producers and application and research users of these products.

Feedback from the workshop will be incorporated in the final reversion and reprocessing of these ESDRs. The workshop will also explore the possibilities of starting and organizing a long term data product intercomparison effort aiming at producing one or more research manuscripts.