International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package

 Credits

    The IMAPP team at SSEC includes Liam Gumley (program management and principal investigator) and Allen Huang (principal investigator) ; Kathy Strabala (MODIS Level 2 software development); Elisabeth Weisz (UW AIRS Level 2) and Jun Huang (AMSR-E Level 2).  Alexander Shumilin of ScanEx ported IMAPP to Windows. The NASA Direct Readout Lab (DRL) contributed software and feedback for the new IMAPP Level 2 release.  Development of IMAPP is supported by NASA under grant NAG5-13402 and the IPO under contract DG133E06CQ0090. 

    The SeaDAS team developed the new MODIS L1B software (modisl1db) and was instrumental in the design of the new MODIS Level 2 IMAPP release.  The operational versions of the MODIS Level-1 software were developed at NASA GSFC by the MODIS Science Data Support Team (SDST) and Characterization Support Team (MCST) under the direction of Vince Salomonson (MODIS Science Team Leader). The operational versions of the MODIS Level-2 cloud mask, cloud top properties and cloud phase software and atmospheric profiles were developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Kathy Strabala, Richard Frey, Liam Gumley, Bryan Baum, Jun Li and Suzanne Wetzel-Seemann under the direction of Paul Menzel and Steve Ackerman (MODIS Science Team Members).  The MODIS Sea Surface Temperature Algorithm was developed by James Davies and the MODIS Near-Infrared Water Vapor algorithm was developed by Peter Albert.

    The AIRS/AMSU/HSB package was developed at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory by Quyen Nguyen, Richard Forrister and Evan Manning under NASA RTOP 622-40-45-03 in support of the AIRS Project at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory under NASA NPO-21132.