1. JPL Airborne Snow Observatory and SnowEx
Amanda Leon - Deputy DAAC Manager Jeff Deems – Science Liaison

2. Project Overviews: Airborne Snow Observatory
PEOPLE
Tom Painter (JPL), Principle Investigator
MEASUREMENTS
snow water equivalent, snow depth
SPATIAL
Basins in California, Colorado, Washington, Idaho
TEMPORAL
Present Snow Off and Snow On campaigns
PLATFORM
Aircraft
INSTRUMENTS
LIDAR, Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI)
NASA/JPL, in partnership with the California Department of Water Resources, has developed the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO), an imaging spectrometer and scanning lidar system, to quantify SWE and snow albedo, generate unprecedented knowledge of snow properties for cutting edge cryospheric science, and provide complete, robust inputs to water management models and systems of the future.

3. Project Overviews: SnowEx
PEOPLE
Ed Kim (GSFC), Project Scientist Amy Misakonis, Project Manager Charles Gatebe, Deputy Project Scientist
MEASUREMENTS
SWE, snow depth, albedo, snow extent, micro- and macro-snow & forest properties
SPATIAL
Year 1: Grand Mesa and Senator Beck, CO Year 3-5: TBD
TEMPORAL
Year 1: Snow Off Sept 2016; Snow On Feb 2017 Year 2: No Campaigns Year 3-5:
PLATFORM
aircraft, ground-based remote sensing, ground measurements
INSTRUMENTS
Airborne: LIDAR, Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI), SnowSAR, AESMIR, CAR Ground: FMCW, magnaprobe, snow pits, terrestrial laser scanner, spectroscopy
NASA SnowEx is a multi-year airborne snow campaign. Its goal is to collect multi-sensor observations plus ground truth to enable trade studies for snow satellite mission designs.
Funded through NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program

4. Data management experience
Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX): Ground
AMSR-E and SMAP Validation Field Campaigns
Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX): Airborne
Operation IceBridge
Best Practices Lessons Learned
Tools/Technology
Other DAACs
CLP-X
IceBridge

5. Data management activities
Data Creation
Understand instruments, data products and data volumes
Recommend data formats
Perform in the field data and metadata QA
Assist with creation of metadata files
There’s an app for that (MetGen)
Data Storage
Establish data transfer protocols with each instrument team
Data Sharing and Usage
Gain insight into user community needs
Create user product guides and develop discovery metadata
Develop Web portals for data access and resources
Create
Store
Use
Share

6. Defining user communities
Want data for a basin(s) of interest.
Want specific measurement not driven by time or place.
ASO
SnowEx
Want data within the current melt season.
Applications
Research Science
Want data access, no driving latency requirements.
Want higher level product.
Want access to a range of processing levels.
Want applications ready formats (e.g., GIS).
Want or are willing to accept range of data formats.