Characterization data for these sites are available through the University of Maryland's "Commercial Remote Sensing for Earth System Science": http://www.inform.umd.edu/landcover/cress/s2kchar.htm

An interactive version of the above map can be accessed from a Window 95/98/NT machine with the following three steps:

1) downloading the free "AcrExplorer" software, available from ESRI http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html
2) saving the file: DEFAULT.ZIP located at http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/LAND/VAL/s2k_data/ on to your desktop
3) Drag the DEFAULT.ZIP file into an open ArcExplorer window
 
 

IKONOS data collected for Intensive Field campaign 2, March-April 2000, are now available through the Scientific Data Buy program, as tasked by the MODIS Land Discipline Validation team:

Click on the site name below for additional information.

To see the dates of Landsat ETM+ overpasses, click on Path/Row values.

** "Nominal scene shift" provides an estimate of a southward shift along the given TM/ETM+ path, starting at the listed row, that would center the scene over the SAFARI 2000 site.  The fractional number represents the amount of shift from the listed row southward.  For example, for Path 174, Row 70, with a nominal scene shift of .4, indicates a southward shift of .4 between path 174/row 70 and path 174/row 71. 

"Caravan" Sites:

1. Mecuburi, Mozambique, contact:  Felipe Lucio (flucio@zebra.uem.mz)
2. Chimoio, Mozambique, contact:   Felipe Lucio (flucio@zebra.uem.mz)
3. Barue, Mozambique, contact:   Almeida Sitoe (sittus@lamar.colostate.edu)
4. Environmental and Remote Sensing Institute (ERSI) of Zimbabwe Site, contact Sharon Gomez (ERSI)  and Matt Hansen (MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields product, mhansen@Glue.umd.edu), over Landsat Path 170/Row 72.
5. Kalahari Transect Study, contact: Kelly Caylor (Caylor@maddux.evsc.virginia.edu)
        Vastrap, ~60km N of Upington, RSA, 27.75 S 21.42 E
        Sanveld, ~50km N of Gobabis, Namibia, 22.02 S 19.17 E
        Sachinga, ~20km W of Katima Mulilo,Nam, 17.70 S 24.08 E
        Mazimba, ~20km S of Sioma, Zambia,16.74 S 23.61 E
        Liangati, ~20 N of Senanga, Zambia, 15.86 S 23.34 E
        Lishuwa,  ~20km E of Lukulu, Zambia, 14.42 S 23.52 E

1. Skukuza, RSA. 20 m tower in 8 m acacia/combretum savanna (flux measurements by N. Hanan)
2. Mongu, Zambia. 33 m tower in 18 m Kalahari woodland (no flux measurements)
3. Maun, Botswana. Tower in mopane woodland (flux measurements by Max Planck Institute)
4. Etosha NP, Namibia. Fire towers in desert pan (no flux measurements)

Coordinator: Jeffrey L. Privette

Mail  to list for site contacts:

Paul Desanker desanker@virginia.edu
Peter Frost pfrost@compcentre.uz.ac.zw
Chris Justice chris@kratmos.gsfs.nasa.gov
Jeff Morisette jeff.morisette@gsfc.nasa.gov
Steve Prince sp43@umail.umd.edu
Jeffrey L. Privette jeff.privette@gsfc.nasa.gov
Sue Ringrose  ringrose@noka.ub.bw
Bob Swap rjs8g@virginia.edu
Dick Olson rjo@ornl.gov
Bob Scholes bscholes@csir.co.za
Wilferd Versfeld staff@tsumeb.nam.lia.net
Filipe Lucio flucio@zebra.uem.mz

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GLCTS Mongu data contains, in part:
three TM scenes, all from Landsat 5, Path 175, Row 71, with no scene shift,
1986, day 326  = 11/22/86  (Scene Id = 5175071008632610)
1994, day 348 = 12/14/94  (Scene Id = 5175071009434810)
1995, day 111 =  4/21/95   (Scene Id = 5175071009511110)
and six MSS scenes (no scene shifts)
L1, Path 188, Row 71, 1973, day 2 =  1/2/73 (Scene Id = 1188071007300290)
L1, Path 187, Row 71, 1973, day 217 = 8/5/73 (Scene Id = 1187071007321790)
L2, Path 188, Row 71, 1975, day 253 = 9/10/75  (Scene Id = 2188071007525390)
L3, Path 188, Row 70, 1980, day 110 =  4/19/80 (Scene Id = 3188070008011090)
L5, Path 175, Row 71, 1984, day 273 =  9/29/84 (Scene Id = 5175071008427390)
L5, Path 175, Row 71, 1985, day 131 =  5/11/85 (Scene Id = 5175071008513190)

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Notes:

(Notes and pictures sent from Peter Frost, 4 March 2000)



















30m high flux tower established at Kataba Forest Reserve, 20 km S of Mongu in western Zambia, as part of the MODIS validation exercise (UTM grid reference 34L 0741764 8291859).
 
 





















View across the canopy of miombo woodland on Kalahari Sand at Kataba Forest Reserve. Tree and shrub basal area of the woodland around the tower averages 8.19 m²ha^-1 (st. dev. ± 2.75 m²ha^-1, measured at breast height; n=42); canopy cover averages 49.3% (st. dev. ± 10.6%, n=42). Five species make up 77% of the canopy cover: Brachystegia spiciformis (52%); Burkea africana (8%); Guibourtia coleosperma (7%); Brachystegia bakerana (6%); and Ochna pulchra (4%). Average canopy height is about 12 m.
 
 





















View inside the woodland at Kataba showing sparse understorey of the grass Pogonarthria squarrosa, various shrubs and geoxylic suffrutices (Copaifera baumiana, Paropsia brazzeana, Baphia massaiensis, Bauhinia petersiana and Lannea gossweileri, among others), moss, and leaf litter. The soil is a pale, deep, excessively well drained, fine sandy regosol of largely aeolian origin ('Kalahari sand') that shows almost no profile development with depth.
 
 





The woodlands on Kalahari sand are interspersed with broad, grassy, linear drainage lines ('dambos') underlain by a clay lens that restricts downward percolation of surface water and upward movement of groundwater. Although linked ultimately to the through-country drainage, lateral drainage of water in these dambos is sluggish, giving rise to seasonal waterlogging during the annual wet season. This periodic waterlogging restricts the establishment of trees. These dambos are likely to be a significant source of methane production during the wet season.

(end notes from Peter Frost)

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Skukuza GLCTS contains, in part,
three TM scenes, all from Landsat 5, Path 168, Row 77, with no scene shift,
1987, day 72 = 3/13/87  (Scene Id = 5168077008707210)
1994, day 283 =  10/10/94  (Scene Id = 5168077009428310)
1994, day 347 =  12/13/94  (Scene Id = 5168077009434710)
and five MSS scenes (no scene shifts)
L1, Path 180, Row 77, 1972, day 225 = 8/12/72 (Scene Id = 1180077007225290)
L3, Path 180, Row 77, 1978, day 364 = 12/30/78 (Scene Id = 3180077007836490)
L3, Path 180, Row 77, 1981, day 168 = 6/17/81 (Scene Id = 3180077008116890)
L5, Path 168, Row 77, 1987, day 72 =  3/13/87 (Scene Id = 5168077008707290)
L4, Path 168, Row 77, 1992, day 110 = 4/19/92 (Scene Id = 4168077009211090)

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