MODOIS Vegetation Land Cover Classification

 

Mission:

Prairie View A&M University's Texas Gulf Coast Environmental Data Center (TEXGED), initially funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), founded in 1995, is an academic Center for Knowledge and Technology of Remote Sensing. Also, it is a center for research activities related to environmental issues in Texas, surrounding states and global environment. This Center is the result of a partnership and collaboration with NASA, Prairie View A&M University and TRW Space & Technology. TEXGED is a Center for collecting data from space, through NASA, using Hyper Spectral Imaging Systems such as AVIRIS or other NASA sensors such as AVHRR and Hyperion.

 

 

Contact:

Dr. Safwat H. Shakir. Director

 

Phone (936)261-9879

Fax     (936)261-9931

Email: shshakir@pvamu.edu

 

Web Site:

http://texged.ips4.pvamu.edu/

 

 

 

 

Goals:

 

1.     To establish database for spectral library of agricultural crops that can be used for best management of agricultural crops.

2.     To provide researchers and decision makers with information they need in planning and assessing the environmental problems facing the southern region along the Gulf Coast of Mexico and the United States of America.

3.     To provide services to local and state agencies including environmental data analyses.

4.     To provide support to undergraduate and graduate students to gaining education, research and working experience in the scientific areas of remote sensing, computational technology, Geographic Information System (GIS) and field nature work.

5.     To collaborate with other universities in the U.S. and the international community in promote scientific studies in remote sensing, ecology, environmental issues, environmental impact statement and Global Climatic changes.

6.     Provide training workshops related to Environmental Issues, GIS, Computational Science related to Ecology and Environment.

7.     To provide researchers and decision makers with information they need in planning and assessing the environmental problems facing the southern region along the Gulf Coast of Mexico and the United States of America.

 

Pictures of AVIRIS Spectral data collected from Blythe Area California and Comparable Spectral Data collected from Ground truth Radiometer