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)

Space Task Group Agenda 11/17/06

Space Task Group of the IPY Sub-Committee on Observations – first meeting

(17-19 January, 2007, Geneva, WMO Headquarters)

Day 1

· Opening (welcome by Prof H.Yang, WMO Deputy Secretary-General)

· IPY Introduction (M. Drinkwater)

· Status of the IPY preparation (E. Sarukhanian for D. Carlson)

· Report on activities of Sub-Committee on Observations (SCOBS)

   Including background to Space Task Group (T. Mohr/W. Zhang)

o WCRP IGOS-Cryosphere Theme (V. Ryabinin)

o GIIPSY/Baseline Scientific Requirements for IPY datasets (K. Jezek)

o Agency presentations on existing IPY plans/proposals

o ESA (H. Laur)

o NASA (C. Dobson)

o ROSHYDROMET (V. Asmus):  Pres 1Pres 2

o DLR (M. Gottwald)

o EUMETSAT (K. Holmlund)

o CSA (J-M. Chouinard)Polar View

o CMA (L. Zhao)

o CNES (E. Thouvenot)

Operational vs. Scientific missions (All)

 

Day 2

Leaving an IPY legacy

The Polar Snapshot” K. JezekExample Acquisitions

 Geo Contribution (M. Rast and E. Sarukhanian)

· Mechanisms for collecting IPY data requirements

  SCOBS survey of IPY sat. data needs (E. Sarukhanian)

  Other Agency IPY AOs (All)

o Establishing the priorities for near term/medium term/long-term actions

  Acquisition planning/Tasking satellites (All)

  Data Management/Metadata standards (All)

  Archiving & Data Distribution (All)

  Data Policy (All)

o Discussion on Agency Commitments

  Baseline plans for data acquisitions

  Archiving and distribution

 

Day 3 (half –day)

· Missing Agencies

· Consolidation of Action Items

· Time and place of next Meeting

Meeting Closure

 

Summary Documents

Report to CM-7

Slides presented by T. Mohr to CM-7

STG1 Summary

Global Inter-agency IPY Polar Snapshot Year

GIIPSY