LTER Site Targets for MODIS subsets.

 

The following is a list of LTER site locations to be used for center locations of MODIS 7x7 km subset time series.  The MODIS subsets can be selected from the ORNL DAAC web page at: http://www.modis.ornl.gov/modis/

 

 

1.

AND - H.J. Andrews LTER AND1 

Site of AERONET Sunphotometer

This site is in addition to the AND Flux tower site.

http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lter/

Primary Contact: Kari O'Connell,

Andrews Experimental Forest P.O. Box 300
Blue River, OR 97413 USA
Phone: 541-822-6303 Fax: 541-822-6329

 

Elevation  830m

N +44.23889    W -122.22389

 

2.

ARC - Arctic LTER - ARC1

Toolik Lake Station, from 2004 GPS survey

http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/ARC/

Primary Contact: Debbie Scanlon - dscanlon@mbl.edu

The Ecosystems Center
Marine Biological Lab
7 MBL St
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA Phone: 508 289 7496

 

Elevation  760m

N +68.62833  W -149.59333

 

3.

BES - Baltimore Ecosystem Study - BES1

Gwynns Falls Watershed - Primary Meteorological Station

http://www.beslter.org/

Primary Contact: Jennifer Sullivan

Baltimore Ecosystems Study
Room 134
TRC Building 5200 Westland Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21227 USA
Phone: 845-677-7600 X 210 Fax: 845-677-5976

 

Elevation 140m

N +39.40028 W -76.77028

 

4.

BNZ - Bonanza Creek LTER - BNZ1

These two sites are the primary LTER sites, and should be added in addition to the 3 “Bonanza Creek” sites already in the MODIS subset list.

BNZ Experimental Forest - AERONET sunphotometer site

http://www.lter.uaf.edu/default.cfm

Primary Contact: Jamie Hollingsworth

Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit
901 S. Koyukuk Dr. Ste. 193
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Phone: 907.474.7470 Fax: 907.474-6251

 

 

Elevation 150m

N +64.74278 W -148.31583

 

BNZ - Bonanza Creek LTER - BNZ2

BNZ Caribou Poker Creek Watershed

Elevation 600m

N +65.16667 W -147.66667

 

5.

CCE California Current Ecosystem - CCE1

Open Ocean site, reflectance data would be very useful

http://cce.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Mark Ohman

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92093 Phone: (858) 534-2754 Fax: (858) 534-2779

 

Elevation 0m

N +32.8736  W -120.2798

 

6.

CDR Cedar Creek Natural History Area - CDR1

Research Station

http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/

Primary Contact: Nancy Larson

100 Ecology Building
1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 612-625-5740 Fax: 612-624-6777

 

Elevation 270m

N +45.40093 W -93.20137

 

 

7.

CAP - Central Arizona - Phoenix Urban LTER CAP

http://caplter.asu.edu/

Primary Contact: Shirley Stapleton

Center for Environmental Studies
Arizona State University
PO BOX 873211
Tempe, AZ 85287-3211 USA
Phone: (480) 965-2975 Fax: (480) 965-8087

 

Elevation 360m

N +33.42700 W -111.93300

 

8.*

CWT - Coweeta LTER - CWT1

Coweeta Site (already registered)

http://coweeta.ecology.uga.edu/

Primary Contact: Ted Gragson

University of Georgia Institute of Ecology
Athens, GA 30606-2202 USA Phone: 706.542.5691 Fax: 706.542.6040

 

Elevation  960m

N +35.05058 W -83.450065

 

9.

FCE - Florida Coastal Everglades LTER - FCE1

http://fce.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Daniel Childers

Florida International University
Southeast Environmental Research Center
University Park, OE 148
Miami, FL 33199 U.S.A. Phone: (305) 348-6054

 

Elevation 1m

N +25.46821 W -80.85328

 

10.

GCE Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER - GCE1

Coastal tide flat

http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/lter/

Primary Contact: Steven Pennings

Department of Marine Sciences
University of Georgia
Athens
, GA 30602-3636 U.S.A.
Phone: 706-542-5955 Fax: 706-542-5888

 

Elevation 2m

N +31.42700 W -81.37100

 

11.*

HFR - Harvard Forest LTER - HFR1

Harvar Forest Flux Tower site

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/

Primary Contact:  Principal Investigator: David Foster

Harvard Forest P.O. Box 68
324 North Main Street

Petersham, MA 01366 USA
Phone: (978) 724-3302 Fax: (978) 724-3595

 

Elevation  350m

N +42.53776 W -72.17148

 

12.

HBR - Hubbard Brook LTER - HBR1

http://hbr.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Timothy Fahey

Hubbard Brook - USDA Forest Service
Northeastern Research Station
234 Mirror Lake Road
Campton, NH 03223
Phone: 603-726-8902 Fax: 603-726-4851

 

Elevation 570m

N +43.93972 W -71.75139

 

13.*

JRN - Jornada Basin LTER - JRN1

Site already registered for MODIS Subsets

http://jornada-www.nmsu.edu/

Primary Contact: Information Mgr: Ken Ramsey

New Mexico State University
Department of Biology
Box 30001/MSC 3AF
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 USA Phone: (505) 646-7918 Fax: (505) 646-5665

 

Elevation 1400

N +32.590709 W -106.844602

 

14.

KBS - Kellogg Biological Station LTER - KBS1

Research location and site of AERONET sunphotometer

http://lter.kbs.msu.edu/

Primary Contact: Information Mgr: Sven Bohm

3700 East Gull Lake Drive
Hickory
Corners, MI 49060 Kalamazoo Phone: (269) 671-2359 Fax: (269) 671-2351

 

Elevation 293m

N +42.41333 W -85.37194

 

15.*

Konza Prairie LTER - KNZ

Site is already registered for MODIS subsets at Flux tower and past AERONET location.  There is also an AERONET location listed for EDC use and that sunphotometer is about 4km northwest of these coordinates.

http://www.konza.ksu.edu/

Primary Contact: John Blair

232 Ackert Hall
Konza LTER Program, Division of Biology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-0112 Phone: 785-532-7065 Fax: 785-532-6653

 

Elevation 440m

 N  +39.082393 W -96.560277

 

16.

Luquillo LTER  - Luquillo Experimental Forest - LUQ1

http://luq.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Nicholas Brokaw

Natural Science Faculty U.P.R Río Piedras
Institute for Tropical Ecosistem Studies
PO Box 23341
San Juan, PR 00931-3341 USA Phone: 787-764-0000X4940 Fax: (787) 772 -1481

 

Elevation 400

N +18.32389 W -65.81750

 

17.

McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER - MCM1

Location of past installation of AERONET sunphotometer

http://huey.colorado.edu/LTER/

Primary Contact: William Lyons

MCM LTER Office
1560 30th Street
Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research
Campus Box 450
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0450 USA Phone: 303-492-4639

 

Elevation 65m

S -77.625000  E +162.882780

 

18.

MCR Moorea Coral Reef LTER - MCR1

Coral Reef

http://mcr.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Andrew Brooks

Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150 Phone: 805 893-7670 Fax: 805 893-3777

 

Elevation 1m

S -17.50100 W -149.83300

 

19.*

NWT Niwot Ridge LTER - NWT1

This site is already registered as Niwot Ridge Forest for subsets at the two flux towers. 

The Niwot Saddle site is also registered for MODIS subset and should remain listed.

http://culter.colorado.edu/

Primary Contact: Mark Williams

1560 30th Street
UCB 450
Boulder, CO 80309 USA Phone: 303-492-4771 Fax: 303-492-6388

 

Elevation 3050

N +40.03288 W -105.54640

 

NWT Niwot Ridge LTER - NWT2

This site is already registered as Niwot Ridge Forest for subsets at the two flux towers.

Elevation 3050

N +40.032500  W -105.546944

 

 

 

 

 

20.

North Temperate Lakes LTER - NTL

The two research sites listed here should be added in addition to the flux tower site at Park Falls.  The current location already registered for MODIS subsets ( N46.0, W-89.600000 )  for NTL1 below is imprecise and should be replaced by the coordinates listed here.

NTL – NTL1 – North Temperate Lakes LTER, Trout Lake Station

Forest site with interspersed lakes

http://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/

Primary Contact: James Rusak

Center for Limnology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
680 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
Phone: 608 262 3014 Fax: 608 265 2340

 

Elevation 260m

N 46.01374  W -89.67969

 

NTL – NTL2 – North Temperate Lakes LTER, Madison Lakes, Yahara Watershed

Wetland and agriculture site, northeast of Lake Mendota

Elevation 270m

N 43.20850  W -89.35187

 

21.

Palmer Station LTER - PAL1   Palmer Station Anvers Island

http://pal.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Helen Quinby

Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
College of William and Mary
Box 1346
Gloucester Point, VA
23062-1346 Phone: (804) 684-7180 Fax: (804) 684-7293

 

Elevation 10m

-64.700            -64.000

 

22.

Plum Island Ecosystem LTER - PIE1

http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/

Primary Contact: Charles Hopkinson

The Ecosystems Center
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA 02543 Phone: 508-289-7688 Fax: 508-457-1548

 

Elevation 50m

N + 42.75900 W -70.89100

 

23.

Santa Barbara Coastal LTER - SBC1

http://sbc.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Jenifer Dugan

Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: 805-893-2071

 

Elevation 350m

N +34.495440 W -119.911820

 

24.*

SEV Sevilleta LTER - SEV1

Location of research site “Mackenzie Flats” - Already Registered for MODIS subsets

http://sev.lternet.edu/

Primary Contact: Joslyn Garcia-Bustamante

Sevilleta LTER
Department of Biology MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1091 U.S.A. Phone: (505) 277-6328 Fax: (505) 277-5355

 

Elevation 1610m

N +34.358688 W -106.669368

Bigfoot site also already registered.

 

25.

Shortgrass Steppe - SGS - SGS1

http://sgs.cnr.colostate.edu/

Primary Contact: Sallie Sprague

Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences
College
of Agricultural Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1170 Phone: 970-491-2366 Fax: 970-491-2156

 

Elevation 1538m

N40.80784 W104.18793

 

26.*

VCR Virginia Coast Reserve LTER - VCR1

Site already registered for MODIS subsets

Virginia Coast Reserve LTER Flux tower site

http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/

Primary Contact: Karen McGlathery

University of Virginia Department of Environmental Sciences
291 McCormick Road
P.O. Box 400123

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123
Phone: 434-924-0558 Fax: 434-982-2137

 

Elevation 2

N +37.42005 W -75.70000

 

 

* Sites marked with an asterisk are already registered in the existing MODIS subset list and require no modification.

 

Notes:

These locations were compared to existing MODIS subset list (looking for duplicates, imprecise locations etc.).   A number of LTER sites have additional subset sites for specific NASA projects.  These locations are in addition to those listed here.

 

For coastal sites, primary meteorological stations or primary research sites sufficiently inland to prevent subsetting a partial land/water area were used here.  The exception to this is the VCR flux tower site already registered.  This VCR location  - the flux tower - already registered for MODIS subsets will include water and is also subject to tides.

 

Many of the research site locations included here are the center location of high resolution "GFL" reconnaissance data for which LTER has been previously registered.

 

Locations for Palmer Station and McMurdo are included although MODIS data may not be generally available because of the high latitude.  The MCR and CCE sites have also been included.  Reflectance data would be quite useful for these sites although they probably don't fall under the purview of the ORNL DAAC...