Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00:00 PM EST – 3:00:00 PM EST
NASA is well known for providing high quality satellite data for long-term science research, but application users, operational agencies, and even researchers often need data much sooner than routine science processing offers.
Since 2009, NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) has provided data and data products generally within three hours of satellite instrument observations. The more than 200 Near Real-Time (NRT) data products available through LANCE, along with the services and data distribution strategies developed by the LANCE team, have helped transform how Earth-observing data are used. As the LANCE celebrates its tenth anniversary, this webinar provides an opportunity to look back on its history, accomplishments, and provide users with an overview of the what is available.
Join us as we provide an overview of LANCE by answering the following questions: what is LANCE, why was it started and what near-real time data does it provide? How are LANCE data expedited? What is the difference between NRT data and the standard quality products that NASA makes available? How can I access LANCE data and Imagery? Who uses LANCE and what for?
Speaker: Diane Davies, Operations Manager, NASA LANCE
Diane Davies has been Operations Manager for NASA’s Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) for seven years. She is particularly interested in how satellite data and derived products can be made more accessible to end-users. Diane worked as a remote sensing and GIS specialist in Namibia managing a direct broadcast satellite receiving station and using near real-time satellite data to monitor fires, floods and vegetation. She then worked at the University of Maryland (UMD) where she was Principal Investigator for FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System), a system that delivers global MODIS fire locations in easy to use formats.
Speaker: Karen Michael, System Manager for NASA EOSDIS, LANCE Manager
Karen Michael is the System Manager of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) and the Land Atmosphere Near Real-time Capability for Earth Observing System (LANCE) Manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. She has worked as a System Engineer doing satellite ground system mission integration in the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project since 1995 and currently works with NASA Flight Projects to bring new satellite data into EOSDIS.