2011 Symposium Agenda and Presentations
Symposium Sponsored by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
May 17 & 18, 2011
| Day 1: May 17, 2011 | |
| 9:00- 9:20am | Meeting Welcome (Nick White,Director 600) |
| Status of HyspIRI Mission (Woody Turner, HQ) | |
| Meeting Overview, Goals & Logistics (Betsy Middleton, GSFC) | |
| Session I:Background & Framework - Building on Past Experience | |
| 9:20-9:40am | Short Summary of the HyspIRI VSWIR Spectrometer (Rob Green, JPL) |
| Short Summary of the HyspIRI TIR Instrument (Simon Hook, JPL) | |
| 9:40- 9:55am | Challenges and Opportunities for the HyspIRI Community (Betsy Middleton, GSFC) |
| 9:55-10:15am | MODIS Science Algorithms and Data System-- Lessons Learned (Robert Wolfe, GSFC) |
| 10:15-10:35am | Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Landsat Collections (Jeff Masek, GSFC) |
| Session II: New Possibilities for Science with HyspIRI - General Ideas | |
| 11:00-11:20am | Global/Seasonal Imaging Spectroscopy Measurements of the Terrestrial Earth System for Climate Feedback Process Understanding (Rob Green, JPL) |
| 11:20-11:40pm | Scaling Biosphere-Atmosphere Fluxes from the Site-Level to the Globe Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Lessons for HyspIRI (Hank Margolis, U Laval) |
| 11:40-12:00pm | Societal Impacts:Agricultural Perspective (Charlie Walthall, USDA) |
| 12:00-12:20pm | CEOS-WGCV Land Product Validation Sub-Group Activities: Current and Potential Roles in Future Decadal Survey Missions (Miguel Roman, Sigma Space) |
| Session III: New Possibilities for Science with HyspIRI - Examples | |
| 1:30-1:50pm | Mapping Coupled Carbon Assimilation and Transpiration Fluxes using TIR and Hyperspectral Imaging (Martha Anderson, USDA) |
| 1:50-2:10pm | Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Remote Sensing (Eric Hochberg, Nova SE U. Oceanog. Center) |
| 2:10-2:30pm | The Conundrum of Impacts of Climate Change on Urbanization: Prospects for Using HyspIRI Data Products for Regional to Global Societal Impacts Analysis (Dale Quattrochi, MSFC) |
| 2:30-2:50pm | Advancing the Use of Remote Sensing Information for Quantifying Photosynthetic Efficiency in Space and Time (Rasmus Houborg, EU Joint Res. Centre, Italy) |
| 2:50-3:10pm | Thermal Remote Sensing and the Thermodynamics of Ecosystem Development Model Issues (Jeffrey Luvall, MSFC) |
| 3:10-3:30pm | Global Volcano Monitoring and Volcanic Hazard Assessment: How HyspIRI Improves Upon and Complements Results Obtained during the EOS Era (Robert Wright, U. Hawaii) |
| Session IV: Data Volume Challenges & Solutions | |
| 3:50-4:10pm | Managing NASA Satellite Data for Global Studies (Ed Masuoka, GSFC) |
| 4:10-4:30pm | Status of the Prototyping Efforts for the IPM & Low Latency Products (Dan Mandl, GSFC) |
| 4:30-4:40pm | Topic Introduction for Panel Discussion (Bob Knox, GSFC) |
| How do we handle HyspIRI data? What is the preferred Mission Model for the data processing chain? | |
| 4:40-5:30pm | Panel Members: Bob Knox, Robert Wolf, Ed Masuoka, Dan Mandl, Rob Green, Simon Hook |
| 5:30-5:50pm | Summary of Discussions (Fred Huemmrich, Robert Wolfe) |
| Day 2: May 18, 2011 | |
| Session V: Context for Hyperspectral and TIR Data Products | |
| 9:00-9:20am | Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Knowledge Gain and Knowledge Gap after 40 years of research (Prasad Thenkabail, USGS) |
| 9:20-9:40am | How will remote sensing of volcanic activity evolve with HyspIRI? (Mike Ramsey, U. Pittsburg) |
| 9:40-10:00am | Summary, 2010 HyspIRI Symposium on Higher Level Products (Betsy Middleton, GSFC) |
| 10:00-10:20am | Report on Two HyspIRI Workshops to Identify Climate Relevant Products at the Global Scale (Susan Ustin, UC-Davis) |
| Session VI: Data Issues | |
| 10:20-10:40am | Sampling and Time Series Issues (Bob Knox, GSFC) |
| 11:00-11:15am | Tagging and Retrieving Data for an Archive (Dave Landis, Sigma Space) |
| 11:15-11:30am | Data Processing Tools (Vuong Ly, GSFC ) |
| 11:30-11:45am | Calibration & CEOS (Steve Ungar, UMD) |
| 11:45-12:00pm | AERONET (Sasha Smirnov, SSAI) |
| 12:00-12:15pm | Calibration and Validation Sensors for Next-Generation NASA Missions (Stan Hooker, GSFC) |
| 12:15-12:35pm | Use of HyspIRI Data with SensorWeb WCPS for Environmental Monitoring -- Pre-Launch Demonstrations Using Hyperion (Robert Sohlberg,UMD) |
| Session VII: Prototyping with EO-1, AVIRIS, Spectrometer, and MASTER/ASTER Data | |
| 1:30-1:50pm | A Global Volcano Product for Thermal Emission and Effusion Rate (Steve Chien/Ashley Davies, JPL) |
| 1:50-2:10pm | NEON: Extending Site-based Observations to the Continental Scale Using Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing (Brian Johnson, NEON) |
| 2:10-2:30pm | Estimation of Rangeland Changes & Evapotranspiration Using Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data (Andy French, USDA) |
| 2:30-2:45pm | Integration of the PRI and fAPARchl Products for Carbon Monitoring (Yen-Ben Cheng, ERT) |
| 2:45-3:00pm | Remote sensing estimates of ecosystem GEE using fAPARchl and PRI (Qingyuan Zhang, UMD) |
| 3:00-3:15pm | Spectral time series to monitor vegetation dynamics using EO-1 Hyperion (Petya Campbell, UMD) |
| 3:15-3:30pm | Determining Ecosystem Carbon Flux from Spectral Reflectance for Multiple Sites: Implications for Global Sampling (Fred Huemmrich, UMD) |
| 3:30-3:45pm | G-LiHT: Goddard's Lidar-Hyperspectral-Thermal airborne imager (Bruce Cook, GSFC) |
| 3:45-3:50pm | Topic Introduction for Break-Out Session Discussions (Betsy Middleton, GSFC) |
| Session VIII: Higher Level Regional/Global Products | |
| 4:05-5:00pm | Two Break-Out Session Discussions: What are the Priority Higher Level Regional/Global Products? |
| Group 1 (Prasad Thenkabail-pending), Group Two (Petya Campbell) | |
| 5:00-5:20pm | Report from Break-out Session Discussions (Prasad Thenkabail and Petya Campbell) |
| 5:40-5:50pm | Symposium Summary (Woody Turner) |