Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program

Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program is sponsored by NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS). The MEaSUREs Program focuses on data product generation, availability, and utility to expand the understanding of the Earth system using consistent records.

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Read about the Web Unification Project NASA’s Earth Science Program is dedicated to advancing Earth remote sensing and pioneering the scientific use of satellite measurements to improve human understanding of our home planet in order to inform economic and policy decisions and improve operational services of benefit to the Nation.

The Earth Science Data Systems ( ESDS ) Program supports NASA's Earth Science research community in providing Earth science data products and services driven by NASA’s Earth Science goals .

The Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program, an element of Research Opportunities in Space and Earth and Science (ROSES), expand these capabilities with competitively selected data products developed and produced by the research community to meet the community’s priority needs.

NASA uses satellite sensors to advance knowledge of the integrated Earth system, the global atmosphere, oceans (including sea ice), land surfaces, ecosystems, and interactions between all elements, including the impacts of humans.

MEaSUREs provides an opportunity for the research community to participate in the development and generation of data products, which complement and augment the Earth science already available to the research community. MEaSUREs projects are required to utilize at least one satellite dataset, preferably a NASA-sponsored dataset.

The MEaSUREs projects are focused on product generation, availability, and utility of Earth System Data Records (ESDRs). An ESDR is defined as a unified and coherent set of observations of a given parameter of the Earth system, which is optimized to meet specific requirements in addressing science questions.

These data records are critical to understanding Earth System processes and in assessing variability, long-term trends, and change in the Earth System as well as providing means for input and validation to modeling efforts.

Emphasis is placed on linking together multiple satellites into a constellation, developing the means of utilizing a multitude of data sources to form coherent time series, and facilitating the use of extensive data in the development of comprehensive Earth system models.

MEaSUREs 2017 projects work to afford a solution for utilization of NASA assets and capabilities by: Providing or adding to mature data records needed for NASA Earth System research, and potentially developing product science tools and services capabilities; Applying Earth Science Division principles regarding community involvement, product life cycle planning, and standards and interfaces for interoperability and exchange of data and information; Supporting ongoing data system evolution efforts through participation in one or more Earth Science Data System Working Groups ( ESDSWG ).

During the life of MEaSUREs the projects, each of the projects is responsible for making its ESDRs available to the user community. At the end of the MEaSUREs projects, the generated ESDRs will be archived and distributed by the EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Centers ( DAACs ).

MEaSUREs Data at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Precipitation Processing System products (located at Colorado State University) Multi-Decadal Sulfur Dioxide Climatology from Satellite Instruments Development of Long-Term and Consistent Earth System Data Records of H2CO, CHOCHO, and H2O from Multi-Satellite UV/Visible Spectra Production and Distribution of MERIS Data Products in Support of the Ocean Color Climate Data Record GOZCARDS: Global OZone Chemistry And Related trace gas Data records for the Stratosphere Global Cloud Process Studies in the Context of Decadal Climate Variability: Enhancement and Continuation of Data Analysis for the International Satellite Cloud Climatalogy Project (ISCCP) Earth Science Data Records of Global Forest Cover Change Creating a Unified Airborne Database for Assessment and Validation of Global Models of Atmospheric Composition Consistent Long-Term Aerosol Data Records Over Land and Ocean from SeaWiFS Beyond Chlorophyll: Implementation and Distribution of Innovative Ocean Color Earth Science Data Records A 30-Year Record of Aerosol Properties over Land from TOMS and OMI Observations A Unified Cloud-Defined Weather State Dataset for Process-Resolving Data Analysis and Model Evaluation Records of Fused and Assimilated Satellite Carbon Dioxide Observations and Fluxes from Multiple Instruments Earth System Data Records (ESDRs) of Air-Sea Variables and Fluxes Anchored on Global Moored-Buoy Observations A Terrestrial Surface Climate Data Record for Global Change Studies Multi-Decadal Time Series of Vegetation Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Derived Gross Primary Production Global Long-Term Multi-Sensor Web-Enabled Landsat Data Record—A Continuation Request A Multidecadal Satellite Record of Water Vapor, Temperature and Clouds A Comprehensive Data Record of Marine Low-level and Deep Convective Cloud Systems Using an Object-Oriented Approach Adding High Temporal Resolution to the Global Long-Term Aerosol Data Record: A Synergy of Low-Earth Orbit and Geostationary-Earth Orbit Earth System Data Record of Ice Motion and Bed Topography in Antarctica HOMAGE: Heat and Ocean Mass from Gravity ESDR Continuity and Enhancement of the Freeze/Thaw Earth System Data Record MINDS: Multi-Decadal Nitrogen Dioxide and Derived Products from Satellites ITS LIVE: Inter-Mission Time Series of Land Ice Velocity and Elevation High Latitude Improvement of Long-Term GPCP Precipitation Products Using Recent NASA Missions Development of Gridded Innovations and Observations Supplement to MERRA-2 and Future GEOS-5 Data Products A Unified and Coherent Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) Earth System Data Record (ESDR) for Earth Science A Moderate Spatial Resolution Data Record of 21st Century Global Land Cover, Land Use, and Land Cover Change Creating an Extended and Consistent ESDR of the Ocean Surface Winds, Stress, and Their Dynamically-Significant Derivatives for the Period 1999-2022 ESESES: Enhanced Solid Earth Science ESDR System A Long-Term Consistent Multi-Satellite Soil Moisture ESDR with Uncertainty Information Fundamental Data Records for Precipitation Reprocessing of Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) Data Set for Global Water and Energy Cycle Research A Long-Term Precipitation Dataset with Uncertainty Information An Inundated Wetlands Earth System Data Record: Global Monitoring of Wetland Extent and Dynamics Development of Pre-SWOT ESDRs for Global Surface Water Storage Dynamics Developing Consistent Earth System Data Records for the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle Solid Earth Science ESDR System—2012 Solid Earth Science ESDR System—2006 NASADEM: Creating a New NASA Digital Elevation Model and Associated Products The Definitive Merged Global Digital Topographic Data Set An Earth System Data Record of Earth's Surface Mass Variations from GRACE and Geodetic Satellites An Earth System Data Record of Changes in Earth Masses from GRACE, CHAMP and Other Satellites A Multi-Sensor Water Vapor, Temperature and Cloud Climate Data Record A Multi-Sensor Water Vapor Climate Data Record Using Cloud Classification Multi-sensor Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) SST field MUSSIC: Multi-Satellite Ultraviolet Solar Spectral Irradiance Composite A Long-Term TOA and Constrained Surface Radiation Budget Dataset Using Merged CERES, ERBE and ISCCP/SRB Products from the Past 30 Years Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Data for Climate Research Improvement of the NVAP Global Water Vapor Data Set for Climate, Hydrological and Weather Studies An Improved, Enhanced-Resolution, Gridded Passive Microwave ESDR for Monitoring Cryospheric and Hydrologic Time Series Ice Velocity Mapping of the Great Ice Sheets: Antarctica Greenland Ice Mapping Project Two: Measuring Rapid Changes in Ice Flow Greenland Ice Mapping Project: Measuring Rapid Changes in Ice Flow Globally Merged, Reconciled and Gridded Observations of Near-Surface Atmospheric and Land Surface Properties and Their Diurnal-to-Decadal Variations GAC and HRPT AVHRR Reprocessing to GHRSST ESDR of Small-Scale Kinematics of Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Earth Surface and Atmospheric Reflectivity Since 1979 from Multiple Satellites (TOMS, SBUV, SBUV-2, OMI, SeaWiFS, NPP, and NPOESS) Distributed Information Services: Climate/Ocean Products and Visualizations for Earth Research (DISCOVER)—Continuation of Project Development of Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Climate Data Records Development of Consistent Global Long-Term Records of Atmospheric Evaporative Demand A Data Record of the Cloudy Boundary Layer A Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform Ocean Surface Wind Velocity Data Set for Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications Continuity and Enhancement of the Global Earth System Data Record for Landscape Freeze/Thaw State Dynamics A Climate Data Record of Altimetric Sea Level Change and Its Mass and Steric Components Web-Enabled Consistent Large Area Landsat Data Streams and Derived Surface Characterizations - a MODIS-Landsat Data Fusion for the Terrestrial User Community Vegetation Phenology and Vegetation Index Products from Multiple Long-Term Satellite Data Records Vegetation Continuous Fields ESDR for the AVHRR and MODIS Records: 1981 - Present A Time Series of Sea Surface Nitrate and Nitrate Based New Production in the Global Oceans A Time Series of Photo-Synthetically Available Radiation at the Ocean Surface from SeaWiFS and MODIS Data Global Long-Term Multi-Sensor Web-Enabled Landsat Data Record Global Cropland Area Database (GCAD30) Through Landsat and MODIS Data Fusion for the Years 2010 and 1990 and Its Dynamics over Four Decades Using AVHRR and MODIS An Earth System Data Record for Land Surface Freeze-Thaw State: Quantifying Terrestrial Water Mobility Constraints to Global Ecosystem Processes Creating Unified Ocean Color Data Records with Uncertainties A Long-Term Record of Upper Stratospheric and Mesospheric Temperature Profiles Creating a Long-Term Multi-Sensor Ozone Data Record