Presenter: Michelle Gierach (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Description:
NASA’s Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission will collect an unprecedented volume of imaging spectroscopy and thermal imagery spanning terrestrial ecosystems, inland and coastal aquatic ecosystems, hydrology, and geology. To prepare the science community, NASA has funded a pathfinder activity that significantly increases the prospects for major scientific discovery in the early post-launch period. The Space-based Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal pathfindER (SISTER) project utilizes open-source architectures and open-source workflows/algorithms applied to existing airborne and spaceborne imagery to generate prototype products. These products can serve as the foundation of an early adopters program for users to gain familiarity with the data, build their application use cases and implement necessary workflows for early scientific discovery post-launch, and entrain new communities, underrepresented groups, and the next generation of scientists. This presentation will provide details on SISTER, including prototype architectures, workflows, prototype products and their timeline. Particularly, we will emphasize and provide examples on the aquatic components of SISTER. We seek feedback from the aquatic remote sensing community on the current and future paths for SISTER, including, but not limited to, aquatic algorithms that exploit the inherent synergies of the PACE, GLIMR, and SBG (PGS) missions.