Summer 2011 Meeting

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Planning for the Summer 2011 Meeting

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

Venue

The Summer 2011 ESIP Federation Meeting will be held in Santa Fe, NM on July 12-15, 2011. The Meeting will utilize the following adjacent 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