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USDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MDTest Site Information
The 7000 acre Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland is operated by the Agricultural Research Service, an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Research at the site focuses on natural resources, plant science, animal science, farm commodities, nutrition, and data systems. This site is one of several that is to be used by investigators that will be validating data products that are to be generated from NASA's Earth Observing System. The NASA validation studies at this site will quantify the accuracy of land surface reflectance and albedo products that are to be produced by the MODIS and MISR sensors on NASA's Earth Observing System. The NASA study includes intensive sites (two crop lands, each about 0.5km by 1km) and an extensive 10km by 10km site that contains a wide variety of land use/land covers from urban to forest. Research activities at the site will include:
The land cover map for the Beltsville, Maryland Agricultural Research Station area was derived from a 1994 land use/landcover map for Prince George's County. The map is in UTM projection (zone 18, NAD83 datum, GRS1980 spheroid) with upper left corner coordinates of 4333374 north, 318931 east and a pixel size of 60 meters.
Product Request for the USDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD GLCTS ProductGo to GLCTS Project ServerUSDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD Header FileProject Description:The purpose of the Global LandCover Test Sites (GLCTS) project is to develop a multitemporal and multi-resolution satellite data set for a selection of global test sites to support the research development of land cover characterization and the testing and validation of improved algorithms for EOS. The sites selected represent a wide range of global land cover types, are well characterized on the ground with on-going field-based monitoring programs, and are of interest to the international global change research community. The primary component of the data set will be historical and recent Landsat data and a series of daily AVHRR 1km data acquisitions in a 500 Km by 500 Km window centered on the site. Digital elevation data and land cover information will be also included for each site. As with all the Pathfinder projects, this activity will help provide experience with which to develop the data and information system for EOS. In particular, problems associated with developing registered multi-resolution and multi-source data sets, providing tools for data extraction, and developing the appropriate metadata and information management systems will be addressed. The targeted user-community for this product includes: researchers developing regional and global scale land cover assessments; researchers developing improved algorithm for surface parameterization; and field scientists working at the test sites wanting to explore the application of remote sensing. Site Description:The 7000 acre Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland is operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. Research at the site focuses on natural resources, plant science, animal science, farm commodities, nutrition, and data systems. This site is one of several that is to be used by investigators that will be validating data products that are to be generated from NASA's Earth Observing System. Data Format and Organization:Data are distributed on a series of low and high density 8 mm tapes, organized by data type. A copy of this header file is the first record on each tape and it will also include specific format and organization data for each tape. Tape 1 (ancillary, gif, dem data and first 1/3 of AVHRR data):
Tape 2 (middle 1/3 of AVHRR data):
Tape 3 (last 1/3 of AVHRR data):
Tape 4 (MSS scenes 1 - 4):
Tape 5 (MSS scenes 5 - 6):
Tape 6 (TM scene 1):
Tape 7 (TM scene 2):
Tape 8 (TM scene 3):
USDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD AVHRR Tape 1 Directory[HEADER Data record info:] [Ancillary Data record info:] [Landcover Map GIF image record info:] [DEM record info:]
The AVHRR scene id format consists of a combination of the following fields:
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File 2: 05/14/1975 = 2016033007513490 (P16/R33) Band1 17706780 Bytes File 3: 05/14/1975 = 2016033007513490 (P16/R33) Band2 17706780 Bytes File 4: 05/14/1975 = 2016033007513490 (P16/R33) Band3 17706780 Bytes File 5: 05/14/1975 = 2016033007513490 (P16/R33) Band4 17706780 Bytes [MSS Data records info:]
File 6: 07/19/1976 = 2016033007620190 (P16/R33) Band1 17792202 Bytes File 7: 07/19/1976 = 2016033007620190 (P16/R33) Band2 17792202 Bytes File 8: 07/19/1976 = 2016033007620190 (P16/R33) Band3 17792202 Bytes File 9: 07/19/1976 = 2016033007620190 (P16/R33) Band4 17792202 Bytes [MSS Data records info:]
File 10: 09/11/1976 = 2016033007625590 (P16/R33) Band1 17600058 Bytes File 11: 09/11/1976 = 2016033007625590 (P16/R33) Band2 17600058 Bytes File 12: 09/11/1976 = 2016033007625590 (P16/R33) Band3 17600058 Bytes File 13: 09/11/1976 = 2016033007625590 (P16/R33) Band4 17600058 Bytes [MSS Data records info:]
File 14: 05/13/1983 = 4015033008313390 (P15/R33) Band1 18420735 Bytes File 15: 05/13/1983 = 4015033008313390 (P15/R33) Band2 18420735 Bytes File 16: 05/13/1983 = 4015033008313390 (P15/R33) Band3 18420735 Bytes File 17: 05/13/1983 = 4015033008313390 (P15/R33) Band4 18420735 Bytes Go to top of document or start of Header listingUSDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD MSS Tape 2 DirectoryLandsat Scene ID Definition: Format = SPPPRRRFFYYDDDMN
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File 2: 08/17/1983 = 4015033008322990 (P15/R33) Band1 18257953 Bytes File 3: 08/17/1983 = 4015033008322990 (P15/R33) Band2 18257953 Bytes File 4: 08/17/1983 = 4015033008322990 (P15/R33) Band3 18257953 Bytes File 5: 08/17/1983 = 4015033008322990 (P15/R33) Band4 18257953 Bytes [MSS Data records info:]
File 6: 08/09/1989 = 5015033008922190 (P15/R33) Band1 18519606 Bytes File 7: 08/09/1989 = 5015033008922190 (P15/R33) Band2 18519606 Bytes File 8: 08/09/1989 = 5015033008922190 (P15/R33) Band3 18519606 Bytes File 9: 08/09/1989 = 5015033008922190 (P15/R33) Band4 18519606 Bytes [MSS Data records info:]
File 10: 04/25/1991 = 5015033009111590 (P15/R33) Band1 18472579 Bytes File 11: 04/25/1991 = 5015033009111590 (P15/R33) Band2 18472579 Bytes File 12: 04/25/1991 = 5015033009111590 (P15/R33) Band3 18472579 Bytes File 13: 04/25/1991 = 5015033009111590 (P15/R33) Band4 18472579 Bytes Go to top of document or start of Header listingUSDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD TM Tape 1 DirectoryLandsat Scene ID Definition: Format = SPPPRRRFFYYDDDMN
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File 2: 08/14/1985 = 5015033008522610 (P15/R33) Band1 66658780 Bytes File 3: 08/14/1985 = 5015033008522610 (P15/R33) Band2 66658780 Bytes File 4: 08/14/1985 = 5015033008522610 (P15/R33) Band3 66658780 Bytes File 5: 08/14/1985 = 5015033008522610 (P15/R33) Band4 66658780 Bytes File 6: 08/14/1985 = 5015033008522610 (P15/R33) Band5 66658780 Bytes File 7: 08/14/1985 = 5015033008522610 (P15/R33) Band6 66658780 Bytes File 8: 08/14/1985 = 5015033008522610 (P15/R33) Band7 66658780 Bytes Go to top of document or start of Header listingUSDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD TM Tape 2 DirectoryLandsat Scene ID Definition: Format = SPPPRRRFFYYDDDMN
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File 2: 04/22/1996 = 5015033009611310 (P15/R33) Band1 67614576 Bytes File 3: 04/22/1996 = 5015033009611310 (P15/R33) Band2 67614576 Bytes File 4: 04/22/1996 = 5015033009611310 (P15/R33) Band3 67614576 Bytes File 5: 04/22/1996 = 5015033009611310 (P15/R33) Band4 67614576 Bytes File 6: 04/22/1996 = 5015033009611310 (P15/R33) Band5 67614576 Bytes File 7: 04/22/1996 = 5015033009611310 (P15/R33) Band6 67614576 Bytes File 8: 04/22/1996 = 5015033009611310 (P15/R33) Band7 67614576 Bytes Go to top of document or start of Header listingUSDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD TM Tape 3 DirectoryLandsat Scene ID Definition: Format = SPPPRRRFFYYDDDMN
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File 2: 07/11/1996 = 5015033009619310 (P15/R33) Band1 67507566 Bytes File 3: 07/11/1996 = 5015033009619310 (P15/R33) Band2 67507566 Bytes File 4: 07/11/1996 = 5015033009619310 (P15/R33) Band3 67507566 Bytes File 5: 07/11/1996 = 5015033009619310 (P15/R33) Band4 67507566 Bytes File 6: 07/11/1996 = 5015033009619310 (P15/R33) Band5 67507566 Bytes File 7: 07/11/1996 = 5015033009619310 (P15/R33) Band6 67507566 Bytes File 8: 07/11/1996 = 5015033009619310 (P15/R33) Band7 67507566 Bytes Go to top of document or start of Header listingProduct RequestGo to GLCTS Project Server |
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