TY  - RPRT
AU  - Jones, J.W.
AU  - Starbuck, M.J.
AU  - Jenkerson, Calli B.
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Landsat surface reflectance quality assurance extraction (version 1.7)
BT  - U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods
IS  - book 11, chap. C7
KW  - aeronautics
KW  - algorithm
KW  - application
KW  - archive
KW  - climate
KW  - climate data
KW  - climate data records
KW  - data
KW  - data quality
KW  - development
KW  - Earth
KW  - earth resources
KW  - Earth Resources Observation and Science
KW  - EROS
KW  - evaluation
KW  - global
KW  - global scale
KW  - image
KW  - image processing
KW  - installation
KW  - land
KW  - Landsat
KW  - management
KW  - NASA
KW  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KW  - operational
KW  - quality assurance
KW  - reflectance
KW  - regional
KW  - remote sensing
KW  - Reports
KW  - resource management
KW  - resources
KW  - scale
KW  - structure
KW  - surface reflectance
KW  - technique
KW  - Techniques and Methods
KW  - U.S.Geological Survey Series
KW  - USGS
KW  - WHO
N2  - The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Land Remote Sensing Program is developing an operational capability to produce Climate Data Records (CDRs) and Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) from the Landsat Archive to support a wide variety of science and resource management activities from regional to global scale. The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is charged with prototyping systems and software to generate these high-level data products. Various USGS Geographic Science Centers are charged with particular ECV algorithm development and (or) selection as well as the evaluation and application demonstration of various USGS CDRs and ECVs. Because it is a foundation for many other ECVs, the first CDR in development is the Landsat Surface Reflectance Product (LSRP). The LSRP incorporates data quality information in a bit-packed structure that is not readily accessible without postprocessing services performed by the user. This document describes two general methods of LSRP quality-data extraction for use in image processing systems. Helpful hints for the installation and use of software originally developed for manipulation of Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) produced through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System are first provided for users who wish to extract quality data into separate HDF files. Next, steps follow to incorporate these extracted data into an image processing system. Finally, an alternative example is illustrated in which the data are extracted within a particular image processing system.
SN  - http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/tm11C7
UR  - http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/tm11C7
N1  - exported from refbase (http://eros.usgs.gov/refbase/show.php?record=25800), last updated on Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:49:41 -0500
ID  - Jones_etal2013
ER  -