Agclimate telecon 2014-11-04

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Agenda

• 2015 Winter Meeting
  • urls: 2015 Winter Mtg in wiki; in the Commons; and our session, Bridging the resolution gap between satellite data and agricultural applications. And, NASA and other satellite data for LTAR and Climate Hubs
  • Possible speakers for our session (possibly 2 sessions?)
    • Simon Liu (National Agricultural Library) - LTAR data system <== Not available
    • Someone from LTAR/Climate Hub - Resolution needs of ARS for different applications
    • Molly Brown (GSFC/Biospheric Sciences Lab) - Resolution issue and SMAP
    • Dalia Kirschbaum (GSFC/Hydrological Sciences Lab) - Resolution issue and GPM
    • Steve Kelling (Cornell Ornithology Lab) - ?
    • Arif Albayrak (GES DISC) - Co-location of ground and satellite data (Level-2, -3)
    • Others?

Minutes:

• Keep exploring the possibilities with David Augustine
• For January - can we get someone from LTAR to give an overview of what they are looking for - what they need as a function of applications
• Instead of use cases - taking a look at the spatial resolution issue

• Nancy got in touch with people from: VegDRI project

• Possible speakers - tentatively room for 2 sessions (The list above is a few initial possibilities)

• Mark Wahlbridge is interested in coming to the winter meeting and will be one of the plenary speakers
• There will be others from this group that Erin will post shortly after confirming

• Steve Kelling - head of IT at Cornell Ornithological lab - working with Nature Conservancy, Point Blue - Bird Returns

(He is willing to come as his work has a link to food resiliency topic - working with rice producers)

• • • Next step: clarify discussion topic specificity and any support with registry
    • Potential interest in ESIP too (Also interest as connection with topics of citizen science and education)

• Arif Albayrak - co-location of ground and satellite (level 2 and level 3)
  • • working on spatial tools that will do point to point, point to swath, point to grid, and swath to grid
    • he could introduce tool and give some information about

• Li Ping Di - Also does a lot of ag work - with NASS - might be interested in presenting something (another possible speaker)

• If everyone is able to come we would need more than one session.
• Have a station set up where demos or screen capture video could occur (in the downstairs open area)
  • • May offer this idea to Molly and Dahlia (on the list of speakers)

• We can consider other possibilities - next step is to see whether everyone is available (Also contact Li Ping)

• Sessions will probably be Day 1 in the afternoon

Attendees: Bill Teng, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Erin Robinson, Arif Albayrak, Reid Boehm