Research & Meetings

2 nd Science Team meeting - Program

Date: May 14 - 15, 2002

Venue: UCSB/ICESS, Santa Barbara, USA

May 14 (Tuesday)
(1) Opening remarks
Henry Yang (UCSB Chancellor) and Catherine Gautier (Director, ICESS)
(2) Session 1: Background & Status up-date
The Kyoto & Carbon Initiative thus far (A. Rosenqvist, NASDA EORC)
- Brief introduction to the Kyoto & Carbon Initiative
- Review the 1st Science Panel Meeting (Tokyo, Nov. 2001)
Data acquisition plans - characteristics and simulation results
- ALOS PALSAR (A. Rosenqvist, NASDA EORC)
- ADEOS-II GLI (A. Rosenqvist, NASDA EORC)
- ALOS AVNIR-2 and PRISM (T. Tadono, NASDA EORC)
NASDA plans and facilities for data processing (M. Shimada, NASDA)
(3) Session 2: International Programmes-Synergy and Product Specifications
GOFC and TCO synergy and product specifications
- GOFC (J.Townshend, GOFC/U. Maryland)
- TCO and GTOS (J. Cihlar, TCO/CCRS)
Open floor discussions
LUNCH
(4) Session 3: Product Working Group Session
Outline of the WG Session
- WG discussions
- WG 1: GLI products
- WG 2: SAR mosaic products
- WG 3: Forest change and biomass products
- WG 4: Wetlands and rice paddy
- WG 5: Boreal products
(5) Session 4: Working Group presentations and discussions
(30 mins pres. + 30 mins open discussions)
WG presentation 1 - GLI products (S. Running, U. Montana)
May 15 (Wednesday)
(1) Session 4: Working Group presentations and discussions (continued)
WG presentation 2 - SAR mosaics (B. Chapman, JPL)
WG presentation 3 - Forest change and biomass (C. Dobson, NASA HQ/U. Michigan)
WG presentation 4 - Wetlands and rice paddy (L. Hess, UCSB)
WG presentation 5 - Boreal products (K. McDonald, JPL)
(2) Session 5: Summing up
Prerequitites for active U.S. participation (Open floor discussions)
On Vegetation baselined for biomass estimation by InSAR (P. Siqueira, JPL)
On ScanSAR quality (A/I from previous meeting) (B. Chapman, JPL)
Reaching consensus on target pruducts (A. Rosenqvist, NASDA EORC)
(3) UCSB / NASDA closing remarks