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The CEOS Land Product Validation subgroup has identified a set of sites over which they are focusing LAI Intercomparison activities. These sites are indicated in the map below with blue and yellow circles. Select a site by clicking on the name or site marker to go to the page for that site. Many of the sites listed are intercomparison sites used in the overview paper for the IEEE TGARS Special Issue on Land Product Validation, Validation of global moderate resolution LAI Products: a framework proposed within the CEOS Land Product Validation subgroup. View or download this paper here.

The map below includes LPV Validation sites, EOS Land Validation sites, and sites that belong to both sets and identifies these by color. The LPV sites were built upon the ideas and infrastructure of the EOS Land Validation Core Sites.

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The EOS Land Validation Core Sites are intended as a focus for land product validation over a range of biome types. The Core Sites represent consensus amongst the MODIS instrument teams and validation investigators, developed through a number of meetings and discussions.  Most of the Core Sites build on an existing program of long-term measurements and have an infrastructure to support in situ measurements (Morisette et al., 2002).  Each site has a point of contact responsible for overall validation coordination at the sites.
Although these sites are not intended to meet all EOS needs, they provide a focus for satellite, aircraft, and ground data collection and land product validation, and are sites for which scientists can readily access in situ and EOS instrument data.  .
The concept for the "EOS Land Validation Core Sites" grew out of a Science Working group for the AM Platform (SWAMP) Land Validation Coordination meeting in December 1997 (Justice et al., 1998).

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