July 2002
- New metrics pages going on-line
GLCF has been working to integrate and update the Federation
Evaluation web pages. New quarterly metrics and GPRA monthly
forms, viewers, and status reports have been constructed.
A customer satisfaction questionnaire is being developed
and will be made available on these new web pages. The
nuggets entry form and viewer has been improved. For instance,
the nugget viewer now allows a user to query based on
nugget category, date entered, and ESIP. This is a huge
improvement of the previous viewer which only allowed
query by category. This site will be a one-stop shop for
entering and viewing metrics related data.
- John Townshend's field work in Paraguay
John Townshend and senior NASA scientist Jim Tucker embarked
on a one week field survey of deforestation activity in
Paraguay. Land cover change research conducted by the
Deforestation Mapping Group (DMG), a science initiative
hosted by the GLCF, has revealed large areas in Paraguay
where extensive agriculture is driving the mass conversion
of forested area to fields. Townshend and Tucker are validating
several key areas identified using Landsat TM and ETM
imagery. While in country they will have the opportunity
to perform several aerial flyovers of recently cleared
areas, and intend on meeting with Paraguayan local experts
and other government officials. The results of this campaign
will significantly enhance our understanding of the deforestation
process and how well our current science data products
have captured this change.
- Data Migration Nears Completion
As of August 22, 2002, we have migrated close to 5TB
of our data holdings to our new system. This includes
1.02TB of data stored on disk RAIDs and 3.90TB of data
archived onto our tape system using the Tivoli Storage
Manager. Once complete, this transition will allow our
users instant access to our most popular data holdings
while allowing us to stage archived data upon customer
request. The migration is scheduled to be completed no
later than October 31, 2002.
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