Three main data collection sites.


Transitional Site

Mesquite Shrubland Site

Grassland Site





FIELD WORK

Getting to the Sites . . .

(View of Transitional Site Looking North from Tower)


Data collection

Above: Collocated Instruments- CIMEL (left), PARABOLA (right) Above: Cherry picker upon which instruments were mounted Above: CIMEL sunphotometer (BRDF)
Above: PARABOLA III Above: Solar panels for instruments, mounted on cherry picker Above: Extended cherry picker with mounted instruments
Above: LAI-2000 measurements along 1km transect at transitional site Above: LAI-2000 measurements Above: fAPAR measurements with Light Bar
Above: BRDF measurements at transitional site using pivotal boom with mounted SE590 spectroradiometer. Above: Mobile laptop data recording station for SE590 Above: SE590 spectroradiometer measurement at different angle
Above: Calibration of SE590 spectroradiometer. Above: Calibration of ASD FR Spectrometer Above: ASD FR Spectrometer measurements
Above: Taking a nadir digital photograph of ground. Above: Taking an overhead digital photograph of a mesquite bush. Above: Harvested square meter of mesquite bush for LAI-3000 measurements.
Above: MFRSR shadow band radiometer Above: 10 band Reagan sunphotometer Above: Instrument workstation
Above: Albedometer measurements at transitional site Above: Laying out a transect at the transitional site Above: Exotech radiometer on yoke
Above: Yoke measurements of surface temperature and reflectance on transects

Grassland PROVE