Summer 2011 Meeting

Planning for the Summer 2011 Meeting

Santa Fe, NM on July 12-15, 2011.

Venue

The Meeting will utilize the following adjacent hotels in the heart of Santa Fe:

• Hotel La Fonda (Google Maps) (driving route from Albuquerque Airport)
• Inn and Spa at Loretto (Google Maps) (driving route from Albuquerque Airport)

Blocks of rooms have been reserved at these hotels for the rate of $100/night.

Two airports are in the Santa Fe vicinity. The Albuquerque airport (ABQ) is 65 miles from Santa Fe and is served by most major airlines. Shuttle service from ABQ to the hotels is available via Sandia Shuttle. The Santa Fe airport (SAF) is served by only American Eagle airlines with a limited number of daily flights. Taxi service is available from SAF to the hotels.

Theme Ideas

Data/Information Quality

Topics

• Data quality provided vs. data quality needed (fitness-for-purpose). Solicit and present data quality needs for climate change, air quality, disaster management
• Pixel quality vs. product quality
• Validation issues. What is Level 3 data validation? What is Level 3 data quality?
• Best practices in different communities addressing data quality, e.g., SST error budget
• Existing IQ frameworks and methodologies (Data View)
• Quality ontology
• Quality provenance
• Quality harmonization
• Interaction with QA4EO and other international entities dealing with data quality for earth observations

Breakout sessions

• IQ cluster (terminology, standardization, IQ framework, IQ4EO white paper preparetion)
• Semantic web cluster (to discuss data quality ontology)
• Air quality cluster
• Proposed updates to the Federation Bylaws