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Hi,

As we're preparing metadata for the SISTER data collections, we find ourselves in need of a new GCMD project vocabulary entry, here are the details:

Short name: SISTER
Long name: Space-based Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal pathfindER

Definition: The Space-based Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal pathfindER (SISTER) is a 5-year NASA project (2021-2025) and one of the two pathfinder projects that support the NASA Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission. The objective of SISTER is to mature many of the workflows using community-provided algorithms envisioned for SBG, lay the groundwork to develop a robust cal/val network, and build a vigorous and expansive user community ahead of launch. It will enable evaluations that significantly increase the prospects for major scientific discovery in SBG's early post-launch period.

Reference: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020AGUFMIN041..03T

Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information.

Thanks,
Yaxing

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Dr. Yaxing Wei
Lead Scientist, ORNL DAAC
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
https://daac.ornl.gov

Thank you for your keyword request. We are reviewing it and will get back to you once the change is complete.

The keyword has been added. Please review:
SISTER > Space-based Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal pathfindER: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/bdfcc19f-5d86-46fd-ab8d-cf197887523d?version=draft

Thanks Tyler! Apologize we would like to make a small tweak to the definition of SISTER:

In the 1st sentence of the definition, please change "and one of the two pathfinder projects that support" to "and a pathfinder project that supports".

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again!

Best,
Yaxing

Yaxing, I have made this change to the keyword definition.

Thanks Tyler! This looks good.

Best,
Yaxing