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Appendix C: Community Letter to NASA and NOAA Regarding Concerns Over NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS Sensor and Response by S. Alan Stern
Pages 167-170

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... Importantly, this requirement of continuing the EOS-level climate science observations across all Earth Science disciplines was built into the recommendations of the NRC's Decadal Survey committee. Recent summaries of VIIRS performance from the IPO and NASA, presented at the NPP Science Team Meeting in August 2007, clearly show that the present configuration of the VIIRS sensor will not come close to meeting the VIIRS design specifications and required spectral radiometric accuracies -- which are minimum standards for ocean color sensor performance for climate science applications.
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From page 168...
... Nearly all other international ocean color missions in space today lack global coverage and are experimen tal imagers with narrow swaths and poorly characterized imaging capabilities. Again, data access remains difficult and we have little ability to understand their capabilities.
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... Sincerely, David A Siegel, Professor of Marine Science and Director of the Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, and member of the NASA NPP Science Team James Yoder, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; former Chair of the Carbon Cycle Scien tific Steering Group, current Chair of the International Ocean Color Coordinating Group, and former member of ESSAAC [Also included in the letter were 56 supporting signatures; they are not shown here.]
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... 170 APPENDIX C RESPONSE App C
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