Research & Meetings

9th Science Team meeting

January 21 (Mon), 2008
9:30 - 12:30 ALOS K&C Theme Coordinator Meeting
(Bruce Chapman, Laura Hess, John Lowry, Philippe Paillou,
Richard Lucas, Ake Rosenqvist)
RESTEC HQ, Meeting room #1 pdf file
13:15-13:25 Welcome (Y. Haruyama, Director RESTEC/ M. Shimada, JAXA EORC)
13:25-13:45 K&C project update (Ake Rosenqvist, JRC)
13:45-14:15 PALSAR status up-date (M. Shimada)
14:15-14:30 Strip data processing at EORC (K. Isono, RESTEC)
·Processing status and schedule
14:30-14:45 K&C data dissemination and user interface (A. Mukaida, RESTEC)
·Viewing processing status with AGAP
·Aspera/FTP
14:45-15:00 COFEE BREAK
15:00-16:00 Science Team project reports - Mosaic Theme
·Bruce Chapman (JPL)
·Masanobu Shimada (JAXA)
·Frank De Grandi, JRC (by Ake Rosenqvist)
16:00-17:30 Work Session - Data issues (all)
·Strip data geometry and radiometry
·ScanSAR issues
·Reprocessing requests
·Others issues
~17:30 Adjourn
January 22 (Tue), 2008
RESTEC HQ, Meeting room #1 pdf file
9:30-10:20 The K&C Wiki site (Richard Lucas)
10:20-11:00 Science Team project reports - Desert Theme
·Philippe Paillou (U. Bordeaux)
·Francesco Holecz, sarmap (by Philippe Paillou)
11:00-11:15 COFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30 Science Team project reports - Wetlands Theme
·Laura Hess (UCSB)
·Lisa Rebelo (IMWI)
·Bill Salas (AGS)
·Tony Milne (Horizon)
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:20 Science Team project reports - Wetlands Theme (cont'd)
·Richard Lucas (U. Aber)
·Maycira Costa (UVic)
·Kevin Telmer, UVic (by Maycira Costa)
·Marcela Quinones (SarVision)
15:20-15:30 COFEE BREAK
15:30-A Work Session - Wetlands Theme
Leads: Laura Hess and John Lowry
15:30-B Data issiues & Science Plan (Meeting Room 2)
(Non-Wetland Theme members)
Lead: Ake Rosenqvist
17:30 Adjourn
18:00 Welcome Reception
January 23 (Wed), 2008
RESTEC HQ, Meeting room #1 pdf file
9:30-10:20 Google Earth & K&C mosaics
·Bruce Chapman
·Akira Mukaida
·Sylvia Lopez (U. Bordeaux)
10:20-11:00 Science Team project reports - Forest Theme
·Richard Lucas (U. Aberystwyth)
·Dalton Valeriano (INPE)
11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-13:00 Science Team project reports - Forest Theme (cont'd)
·Humberto de Mesquitas (IBAMA)
·Shaun Quegan (U. Sheffield)
·Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO)
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-16:00 Science Team project reports - Forest Theme (cont'd)
·Christiane Schmullius, FSU (by Maurizio Santoro, Gamma)
·Mattias Magnusson (SLU)
·Paul Siqueira (UMass)
·Kyle McDonald (JPL)
·Manabu Watanabe (Tohoku Univ.)
16:00-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15-16:30 Feed-back to data issues (Masanobu Shimada)
16:30-A Work Session - Forest Theme
Lead: Richard Lucas
16:30-B Data issiues & Science Plan (Meeting Room 2)
(Non-Forest Theme members)
Lead: Ake Rosenqvist
18:30 Adjourn
January 24 (Thu), 2008
RESTEC HQ, Meeting room #1 pdf file
9:40-11:00 Bali, REDD & The Forest Carbon Monitoring System (FCMS)
·Yoshiki Yamagata (National Inst. for Environmental Studies)
·Yumiko Uryu (WWF Japan)
·Josef Kellndorfer (Woods Hole Research Center)
·Haruo Sawada (FFPRI)
11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:45 ALOS follow-on (Masanobu Shimada)
11:45-12:15 Open discussions - FCMS and K&C synergy
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:30 Summary Session
·Wetlands - Laura Hess / John Lowry
·Forest - Richard Lucas
·Mosaic & Google Earth - Bruce Chapman
14:30 Meeting Summary (Ake Rosenqvist)
~15:15 Closing
Afternoon
16:00 - 17:30 Theme Coordinator meeting Wrap-up
(Bruce Chapman, Laura Hess, John Lowry,
Richard Lucas, Ake Rosenqvist)