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Goals
VAccess-MAGIC is a regional and data products consortium, promoting the usage of NASA and other remote sensing data and GIS products for the benefit of state, regional and local application users. VAccess - MAGIC provides:
- Data, information products, tools, education, services and web-accessible databases
- Peer Reviewed electronic publications on RS applications
- Remote sensing solutions to environmental and other challenges identified by VAccess-MAGIC including scientists, technologists, decision-makers, regulators, policy-makers and other end users
- Analysis tools, collaboration techniques, and expertise in GIS/RS
Objectives
The VAccess-MAGIC objectives are: Leverage the initial VAccess infrastructure (that satisfies the VAccess team needs and selected Commonwealth agency user community needs based on their input and the initial prototypes) and extend it beyond the Commonwealth to the broader MAGIC group and Maryland agencies, as well introduce new technology applications based on advanced instruments, e.g. airborne LIDAR and hyperspectral satellite technologies, as well as ground data collections create new, technologically advanced versions of Virginia-Maryland–oriented, remote sensing, web-based products, tailored for the team and selected user community needs beginning with Land Use/Land Cover and Hydrology applications conduct education and training programs in remote sensing and GIS technologies and applications
Expand the HRPT NOAA and other satellites receiving station at GMU, downloading data and developing applications to provide student training in RS and test overall access including remote data access to VAccess-MAGIC information holdings – (Note that GSFC has stopped creating new AVHRR data/information products due to funding restrictions).
ResponsibilitiesIndividual team responsibilities by organization are presented in the following Table.
Organization Primary Responsibility
Potential Results Summary CEOSR, GMU VAccess: RS & GIS Data; Application Scenarios; Enabling Information Technologies; Support Staff Project Science and Management Plans; Scenarios, Infrastructure; Databases; Internet Access; Collaboration Capabilities; Outreach; infrastructure requirements LARSEA, ODU Landscape Epidemiology Data analysis, Outreach materials, information examples, infrastructure requirements Geography, UMDCP LIDAR Footprint of entire Chesapeake water-shed; surface topography maps with high accuracy; vegetation canopy maps; demonstration of LIDAR, in an operational mode Forestry
VTNatural resource applications of RS & Geospatial IT Adoption of RS and geospatial information to enable precision forestry; prototyping applicable tools and protocols; Center for Atmospheric Sciences &
Research Center for Optical Physics,
Hampton UniversityAdvanced Analysis for Remote Sensed Data Natural event images/effects; analysis tools; education & public outreach materials & website; infrastructure requirements; LIDAR lab for air pollution studies Virginia Space Grant Consortium
ODUVSGC Educational Programs Management, Faculty/Student funding support; Application needs; infrastructure requirements William & Mary
VIMSInteractive Internet GIS/RS Tutorial Desktop GIS/RS for solving natural resource challenges; infrastructure requirements Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
UVAEducating undergraduates in sensor design & missions MODIS validation analog; Model products for future customers;
infrastructure requirements
Mission Presentation
For detail mission about VAccess, please check "Earth, Space, Remote Sensing, Data Systems" presented by Prof.Menas Kafatos in April 2001
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