Remote Sensing Laboratory

Byrd Polar Research Center

To contact us:

Kenneth Jezek                                                               Mark Drinkwater

1090 Carmack Road                                                      Head, Mission Science Division

Columbus, OHIO 43210                                                  ESA, ESTEC

USA                                                                                Earth Observations

Phone: 614 292 7973                                                     Postbus 299,  2200 AG Noordwijk

Email: jezek.1@osu.edu                                                  The Netherlands

                                                                                       E-mail:  Mark.Drinkwater@esa.int

                                                                                        Tel: +31 (0)71 565 5673

                                                                                       Fax: +31 (0)71 565 5675

 

MODIS Bands 1 and 2 False Color—Jacobshavn Glacier, June 2005 (K. Jezek)

GIIPSY Draft Agenda 11/17/06

Tuesday December 12   6:00PM-8:30PM

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco

Marriott Convention Center, Room Sierra K

 

PERSPECTIVES (~45-60min)

 

10 min GIIPSY Overview and Meeting Objectives (K. Jezek)

~5 min discussion on how GIIPSY fits into IPY (D. Carlson)

~5 min IGOS and GIIPSY (V. Ryabinin)

~5 min ESA presentation on ESA IPY AO proposals (Einar-Arne Herland, ESA)

~5 min CSA perspective on GIIPSY and Radarsat-1 Archive (P. Briand)

~5 min Japanese perspective on GIIPSY (J. Ukita)

~5 min NASA perspective on GIIPSY (S. Martin)

~5 min Ground Station perspective on processing large volumes of data (N. La Belle-Hamer)

~5 min DLR perspective on GIIPSY (K. Jezek for I. Hajnsek)

 

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION (K. Farness) (1-1.5 hour)

 

1) Community input to flight agencies on archival data processing and new data acquisitions

 

2) Identify key IPY legacy data set(s)

What?

Where?

When?  (for example:  during windows of seasonal melt or alternatively during cycles of ICESAT data acquisitions?)

 

3) Related issues and potential additional resources

Sensors and Spacecraft

Acquisition Planning

Receiving Ground Stations

Processing Facilities

Calibration and Validation

Distribution

 

4) Data management issues

Processing and product distribution

Product format

Metadata tagging for data explicitly collected for IPY including:

Insitu data

GIIPSY pull from the CSA archive

FINAL PARTICIPANTS LIST

 

Global Inter-agency IPY Polar Snapshot Year

GIIPSY