The First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project) Field Experiment (FIFE) Project was a large-scale climatology project set in the prairies of central Kansas from 1987 through 1989. This project was designed to improve understanding of carbon and water cycles; to coordinate data collected by satellites, aircraft, and ground instruments; and to use satellites to measure these cycles.

The FIFE holdings include background historical data from as early as 1858. Extensive analysis of the remote-sensing data and modeling of the FIFE data were performed in the three years between the publication of the first and second special FIFE issues in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

See the FIFE Campaign Document.

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• FIFE Data Set Documents

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The remote-sensing data were used to determine surface energy budgets, soil moisture and vegetation parameters, surface-atmosphere fluxes, and atmosphere properties. Surface-atmosphere exchanges and atmospheric boundary layer models were used to more completely understand the dynamics measured in the FIFE study.

Related data may also be obtained by accessing the ORNL DAAC's web page for the FIFE Follow-On Project, a study to conduct further analyses of data collected during the initial FIFE field campaigns and to perform additional field measurements. The FIFE Follow-On work included additional analyses of data collected during the initial field campaigns from 1987 through 1989 and additional field measurements from 1990 to 1993.