Agclimate telecon 2014-10-07

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Agenda

• David Augustine (USDA ARS) to discuss use case(s).
• NASA and other satellite data for LTAR and Climate Hubs
• Our session(s) for Winter Mtg

Minutes:

• David Augustine (USDA ARS) to discuss use case(s).

• • 2 Ideas proposed:

1. LTAR increase on soil moisture - hydrology and water retention : network of soil moisture sensors (experimental cattle ranch) Lot of work could do to fill in gaps between satellite and ground
2. Also how much could learn from the combination of soil moisture and satellite combo with cattle weight gain. (temporal variation)

Spatial resolution of the different products? Gridded products are all in the quarter to tenth of a degree range

• • What would be the coarsest resolution acceptable to David A.?: 1.5 Km or 1 mile
  • Most producers don't have what they have - establish these relationships first
  • 16,000 acre station has: 3 met stations 4 miles apart and 25 locations with sensors to measure soil moisture.
  • Think we can work to establish relationships between - at large scales extrapolation- not at small scale - at climate hubs and drought mitigation center
  • Could use some of the stations as test sites
  • Talking about how to get the data -capturing that within spreadsheet
  • Bill to send spreadsheet and examples to David Augustine DONE

• NASA and other satellite data for LTAR and Climate Hubs
  • Showed the group the areas completed within the spreadsheet
  • Barry Weiss and Charles Avis of JPL had filled in the SMAP and OCO-2 rows.
• Our session(s) for 2015 Winter Mtg

Call for other ideas to discuss during the meeting One thought: Obstacles of data resolution in application to other endeavors What have people done with that in the past? Others?

Attendees: Arif Albayrak, Bill Teng, Brian Wee, David Augustine Reid Boehm