Geospatial

The Geospatial Cluster

Objectives

• Address Deficiencies in GIS for Remote Sensing Data
• Formats and Standards (HDF, NetCDF, etc)
• Open source (tools, etc)
• Interfaces/Connectivity (such as OPeNDAP, WCS, WMS)
• Development of Use Cases
• Special topic speakers/presentations

Winter Meeting Sessions

• Wed Jan 4, 2-3:30pm "Applying GIS for Integrated Discovery, Access, and Analysis"
• Wed Jan 4, 4-5:30pm "GeoPortal Server: Open Source Software for Data Discovery and More"

Get Involved

• Next telecon: Initial telecon planned for late January

Planned agenda

• Introduction
• Invitation to active membership and participation/contribution
• Goal setting - what do we want to focus on over the next 6 mos?
  • Topic ideas for breakout sessions
    • Use-cases/demos
    • Invited speakers
    • Best practices
• Identify reps to build an SME reference
  • Various formats
  • OPeNDAP
  • Open Source
  • etc.
• Start thinking about the Summer Meeting in Madison, WI (July 2012)
  • Half-day or full-day agenda? How many breakout sessions? Ideas?
• Conclusion and schedule for next telecon (February 2012)
  • When is the best time regular monthly telecons(what day of week/time)?
  • If we can't reach consensus, we will do a Doodle poll

Join the Cluster e-mail list

http://www.lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-gis

Governance

Interim Chairs:

• Ross Bagwell, NASA/CTS GSFC
• Rob Raskin, NASA JPL raskin at jpl.nasa.gov