This is the main repository for the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) collection 3 level 2 STARS NDVI and albedo data product. This product will utilize the Spatial Timeseries for Automated high-Resolution multi-Sensor (STARS) data fusion system to produce normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and albedo estimates corresponding to ECOSTRESS surface temperature measurements, to support the evapotranspiration product.
The ECOSTRESS collection 3 level 2 vegetation index and albedo data product is the pre-cursor to the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) collection 1 level 2 vegetation index and albedo data product algorithm.
Gregory H. Halverson (they/them)
gregory.h.halverson@jpl.nasa.gov
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 329G
Margaret C. Johnson (she/her)
maggie.johnson@jpl.nasa.gov
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 398L
Kerry Cawse-Nicholson (she/her)
kerry-anne.cawse-nicholson@jpl.nasa.gov
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 329G
Claire Villanueva-Weeks (she/her)
claire.s.villanueva-weeks@jpl.nasa.gov
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 329G
The code for the ECOSTRESS level 2 STARS PGE will be developed using open-science practices based on the ECOSTRESS collection 2 gridded and tiled product generation software.
This software will produce estimates of:
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- albedo
NDVI and albedo are estimated at 70 m ECOSTRESS standard resolution for each daytime ECOSTRESS overpass by fusing temporally sparse but fine spatial resolution images from the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel (HLS) 2.0 product with daily, moderate spatial resolution images from the Suomi NPP Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) VNP09GA product. The data fusion is performed using a variant of the Spatial Timeseries for Automated high-Resolution multi-Sensor data fusion (STARS) algorithm developed by Dr. Margaret Johnson and Gregory Halverson at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. STARS is a Bayesian timeseries methodology that provides streaming data fusion and uncertainty quantification through efficient Kalman filtering.
Operationally, each L2T STARS tile run loads the means and covariances of the STARS model saved from the most recent tile run, then iteratively advances the means and covariances forward each day updating with fine imagery from HLS and/or moderate resolution imagery from VIIRS up to the day of the target SBG overpass. A pixelwise, lagged 16-day implementation of the VNP43 algorithm (Schaaf, 2017) is used for a near-real-time BRDF correction on the VNP09GA products to produce VIIRS NDVI and albedo.
The data format for the ECOSTRESS products is described in the ECOSTRESS Collection 3 landing page.
flowchart TB
subgraph VNP43NRT[VNP43NRT.jl]
VNP09GA_I[VNP09GA<br>I-Band<br>500m<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
VNP09GA_M[VNP09GA<br>M-Band<br>1000m<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
VIIRS_downscaling[VIIRS<br>Downscaling]
VNP09GA_downscaled[Downscaled<br>500m<br>VIIRS<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
VNP43_BRDF[VNP43NRT.jl<br>BRDF<br>Correction]
VIIRS_corrected[VIIRS<br>BRDF-Corrected<br>500m<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
VIIRS_NDVI[VIIRS<br>500m<br>NDVI]
VIIRS_albedo[VIIRS<br>500m<br>Albedo]
end
subgraph HLS_aquisition[HLS.jl]
direction TB
Landsat_reflectance[HLS<br>Landsat<br>30m<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
Landsat_upsampled[Upsampled<br>Landsat<br>70m<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
Landsat_NDVI[Landsat<br>70m<br>NDVI]
Sentinel_reflectance[HLS<br>Sentinel<br>30m<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
Sentinel_upsampled[Upsampled<br>Sentinel<br>70m<br>Surface<br>Reflectance]
Sentinel_NDVI[Sentinel<br>70m<br>NDVI]
Landsat_albedo[Landsat<br>70m<br>Albedo]
Sentinel_albedo[Sentinel<br>70m<br>Albedo]
end
subgraph bayesian_state[Bayesian State]
NDVI_covariance_prior[NDVI<br>Fine-Coarse<br>Covariance<br>Prior<br>from<br>Previous<br>Overpass]
NDVI_covariance_posterior[NDVI<br>Fine-Coarse<br>Covariance<br>Posterior<br>for<br>Next<br>Overpass]
albedo_covariance_prior[Albedo<br>Fine-Coarse<br>Covariance<br>Prior<br>from<br>Previous<br>Overpass]
albedo_covariance_posterior[Albedo<br>Fine-Coarse<br>Covariance<br>Posterior<br>for<br>Next<br>Overpass]
end
fine_NDVI_input[NDVI<br>70m<br>Composite]
NDVI_data_fusion[STARS.jl<br>NDVI<br>Data<br>Fusion]
fine_NDVI_output[Fused<br>30m<br>NDVI]
fine_NDVI_uncertainty[NDVI<br>Uncertainty]
fine_albedo_input[Albedo<br>70m<br>Composite]
albedo_data_fusion[STARS.jl<br>Albedo<br>Data<br>Fusion]
fine_albedo_output[Fused<br>30m<br>Albedo]
fine_albedo_uncertainty[Albedo<br>Uncertainty]
SBG_L2T_STARS(ECOSTRESS<br>L2T<br>STARS<br>NDVI<br>&<br>Albedo<br>Product)
VNP09GA_I --> VIIRS_downscaling
VNP09GA_M --> VIIRS_downscaling
VIIRS_downscaling --> VNP09GA_downscaled
VNP09GA_downscaled --> VNP43_BRDF
VNP43_BRDF --> VIIRS_corrected
VIIRS_corrected --> VIIRS_NDVI
VIIRS_corrected --> VIIRS_albedo
Landsat_reflectance --> Landsat_upsampled
Sentinel_reflectance --> Sentinel_upsampled
Landsat_upsampled --> Landsat_NDVI
Sentinel_upsampled --> Sentinel_NDVI
Landsat_upsampled --> Landsat_albedo
Sentinel_upsampled --> Sentinel_albedo
Landsat_NDVI --> fine_NDVI_input
Sentinel_NDVI --> fine_NDVI_input
fine_NDVI_input --> NDVI_data_fusion
VIIRS_NDVI --> NDVI_data_fusion
NDVI_covariance_prior --> NDVI_data_fusion
NDVI_data_fusion --> fine_NDVI_output
NDVI_data_fusion --> fine_NDVI_uncertainty
NDVI_data_fusion --> NDVI_covariance_posterior
Landsat_albedo --> fine_albedo_input
Sentinel_albedo --> fine_albedo_input
fine_albedo_input --> albedo_data_fusion
VIIRS_albedo --> albedo_data_fusion
albedo_covariance_prior --> albedo_data_fusion
albedo_data_fusion --> fine_albedo_output
albedo_data_fusion --> fine_albedo_uncertainty
albedo_data_fusion --> albedo_covariance_posterior
fine_NDVI_output --> SBG_L2T_STARS
fine_NDVI_uncertainty --> SBG_L2T_STARS
fine_albedo_output --> SBG_L2T_STARS
fine_albedo_uncertainty --> SBG_L2T_STARS
click VNP43_BRDF "https://github.com/STARS-Data-Fusion/VNP43NRT.jl"
click NDVI_data_fusion "https://github.com/STARS-Data-Fusion/STARS.jl"
click albedo_data_fusion "https://github.com/STARS-Data-Fusion/STARS.jl"
Figure 1. Flowchart of the ECOSTRESS Collection 3 L2T STARS processing workflow.
NDVI and albedo are estimated at 70 m ECOSTRESS standard resolution with uncertainty for each UTC day in which there is an ECOSTRESS overpass by fusing temporally sparse but fine spatial resolution images from the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel (HLS) 2.0 product with daily, moderate spatial resolution images from the Suomi NPP Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) VNP09GA product.
Landsat and Sentinel surface reflectances are collected using the HLS.jl package.
VIIRS surface reflectance is downscaled and BRDF corrected using the VNP43NRT.jl package. A pixelwise, lagged 16-day implementation of the VNP43 algorithm (Schaaf, 2017) is used for a near-real-time BRDF correction on the VNP09GA products to produce VIIRS NDVI and albedo.
The data fusion is performed with a variant of the Spatial Timeseries for Automated high-Resolution multi-Sensor data fusion (STARS) algorithm developed by Dr. Margaret Johnson and Gregory H. Halverson at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory using the STARS.jl package. STARS is a Bayesian timeseries methodology that provides streaming data fusion and uncertainty quantification through efficient Kalman filtering. Operationally, each L2T STARS tile run loads the means and covariances of the STARS model saved from the most recent tile run, then iteratively advances the means and covariances forward each day updating with fine imagery from HLS and/or moderate resolution imagery from VIIRS up to the day of the target ECOSTRESS overpass.
The layers of the L2T STARS product are listed in Table 2. All layers of this product are represented by 32-bit floating point arrays. The NDVI estimates and 1σ uncertainties (-UQ) are unitless from -1 to 1. The albedo estimates and 1σ uncertainties (-UQ) are proportions from 0 to 1.
| Name | Description | Type | Units | Fill Value | No Data Value | Valid Min | Valid Max | Scale Factor | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index | float32 | Index | NaN | N/A | -1 | 1 | N/A | 13.4 mb |
| NDVI-UQ | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Uncertainty | float32 | Index | NaN | N/A | -1 | 1 | N/A | 13.4 mb |
| albedo | Albedo | float32 | Ratio | NaN | N/A | 0 | 1 | N/A | 13.4 mb |
| albedo-UQ | Albedo Uncertainty | float32 | Ratio | NaN | N/A | 0 | 1 | N/A | 13.4 mb |
Table 2. Listing of L2T STARS data layers.
Schaaf, C. B. et al. (2017). Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for MODIS Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function and Albedo (MOD43) Products. NASA. Link to source