Global Monthly Vegetation Cover

Acknowledgment

Introduction Page

The GVI project has been supported by the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program (CGCP). Without its continuous funding, the generation of the 12-year NDVI data over land would not have been possible. The following individuals were critical to the development of this new data set: Garik Gutman, Dan Tarpley, Aleksandr Ignatov (all from Office of Research and Applications, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, D.C.) and Steve Olson of Research and Data Systems Corporation (RDC). Critique and reviewing by the NOAA CGCP manager, Dr. A. Gruber, motivated this work. D. Sullivan (RDC) and J. Powers (NESDIS) are also acknowledged for their development of the processing and visualization system. Contributions to the project by M. Halpert and Dr. C. Ropelewski (NOAA Climate Analysis Center), and P. Schultz, R. Hucek and L. Rukhovetz (RDC) are acknowledged. This work was accomplished while Aleksandr Ignatov held a National Research Council Associateship at the Satellite Research Laboratory, NOAA/NESDIS, on leave from the Marine Hydrophysics Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine.

Special thanks go to those who assisted in producing this CD-ROM: Jeannette Rivera and Dee Lallemont for organizing and creating the html files, Curt Benner and Geof Goodrum for their help with the readme files, Garry Ayres for obtaining the NDVI files from NCDC's archive, Ralph E. Meiggs for creating the numerous .gif images from the archive files, Jeff Robel for placing the NOAA logo on the images and Kathy Kidwell for general editing (all from the Satellite Services Branch of NCDC's Climate Services Division in Suitland, MD).

Special thanks are also extended to Ann Hallyburton (NCDC, Asheville, NC), who provided the art work for the disc cover on the jewel case.

Dr. Ivan Csiszar, Dave Forsyth (Office of Research and Applications, NOAA/NESDIS), and Dr. Rikie Suzuki (Frontier Research System for Global Change, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Ibaraki, Japan) deserve special mention and thanks for reviewing Version 1.1 to ensure it's accuracy before distribution.

The requested form of acknowledgment for use of the data on this CD-ROM is given below and should be honored. This CD-ROM should be cited as: 

Time Series of Global Monthly Vegetation Cover from NOAA/AVHRR: April 1985-December 1997,                  
      Version 1.1, February 2001, NOAA National Climatic Data Center.  Published on CD-ROM by 
      NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC.