Research & Meetings

5 th Advisory Panel / Science Team meeting - Program

November 18 (Tuesday)
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9:30 Welcome
T. Ogawa, Science Director JAXA EORC
9:40 The ALOS K & C Initiative (Ake Rosenqvist, JAXA EORC)
·Overview
·Project organisation
·Observation strategy
10:00 EORC data products- (Masanobu Shimada, JAXA EORC)
Wetlands & CH4
10:20-10:40 Wetlands & CH4 Theme organisation
- (Laura Hess,UCSB)
11:15-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:20 Wetland Theme product outlines
(Product Leaders)
·Laura Hess (UCSB/USA)
·Maycira Costa (U. Victoria/Canada)*
·Kevin Telmer (by Maycira Costa)(U. Victoria/Canada)*
·Richard Lucas (U. Wales Aberystwyth/U.K.)
·Dirk Hoekman (BOSF/Indonesia)
·Kyle McDonald (by Bruce Chapman) (Caltech-JPL/USA)
·Martti Hallikainen (HUT/Finland)
·William Salas (AGS/USA)
·John Lowry (ERISS/Australia)
* New products - 15 minutes
12:30-13:00 Panel feed-back
LUNCH
Forest & Land Cover Change
14:15-14:35 Forest & LCC Theme organisation - (Richard Lucas)
14:35-16:10 Forest Theme product outlines (Product Leaders)
·Shaun Quegan (U. Sheffield/U.K.)
·Leif Eriksson (FSU Jena/Germany)
·Frank De Grandi (JRC/E.U.)*
·Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO / France)
·Richard Lucas (U. Wales Aberystwyth / U.K.)
·Hakan Olsson (SLU / Sweden)*
·Dirk Hoekman (BOSF / Indonesia)
COFFEE BREAK
·Dalton Valeriano (by Ake) (INPE / Brazil)
·Ryutaro Tateishi (U. Chiba / Japan)
·Irena Hajnsek (DLR / Germany)
·Paul Siqueira (by Bruce Chapman) (Caltech-JPL / USA)
* New products - 15 minutes
16:45-17:15 Panel feed-back
17:15 Other issues
17:30 Adjourn
November 19 (Wednesday)
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Desert & Water
9:30-9:45 Desert & Water Theme organisation - (Philippe Paillou)
Desert & Water Theme product outlines (Product Leaders)
·Philippe Paillou (OAB / France)
·Paolo Pasquali (sarmap/Switzerland)*
10:10-10:30 Panel feed-back (open floor discussions)
COFFEE BREAK
Mosaic Products
10:50 Mosaic Products Theme structure outline - (Bruce Chapman)
Mosaic Products Theme product outlines (Product Leaders)
·Bruce Chapman (Caltech-JPL / USA)
·Masanobu Shimada (JAXA/Japan)
·Philippe Paillou (OAB / France)
11:30-12:00 Panel feed-back
12:00-12:15 ALOS K & C and the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation -(Willie Smits, BOSF Director)
LUNCH
13:30 Theme Work Sessions - (Lead: Theme Coordinators)
·Theme coordination
·Refinement of product descriptions
·Alignment and elimination of overlap
·Theme input to Science and Work Plans
COFFEE BREAK
15:50 Theme Work Sessions (cont'd)
17:00 Issues for clarification
17:30 Adjourn
WELCOME RECEPTION
November 20 (Thursday)
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9:30-12:30 Theme Work Sessions - (Lead: Theme Coordinators)
·Theme coordination
·Refinement of product descriptions
·Alignment and elimination of overlap
·Theme input to Science and Work Plans
LUNCH
14:00 Information about the Science Agreements - (Y. Kinoshita, JAXA EORC)
14:30 Theme Work Sessions (cont'd)
17:00 Issues for clarification
17:30 Adjourn
November 21 (Friday)
JAXA Tsukuba Space Center(TKSC)
Sogo Kaihatsu Suishin Bldg. 1st floor Meeting room 1
10:00-12:00 Results of Theme Work Sessions
·ALOS technical up-date (Norimasa Ito, ALOS group, JAXA TKSC)
·Wetlands & CH4 (presentation cancelled due to sickness)
·Mosaic Products (Bruce Chapman)
·Desert & Water (Philippe Paillou)
·Forest & Land Cover Change (Richard Lucas)
·Pending issues & Workshop summary (Ake Rosenqvist)
12:00 Adjourn
LUNCH
13:30 Tsukuba Space Center Technical Visit
·TKSC facility tour
·Close encounter with ALOS Flight Model
-16:00 End of visit