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Directions

The meeting will be in the Mesa Lab in the Damon Room, NCAR
1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, Co 80305
 Map of all NCAR's Boulder locations 

Accommodation

Courtesy room rates were available at the Embassy Suites and Hilton Garden Inn at the government rate of $131 (exclusive of applicable state and local taxes). The hotels are right next to each other in Boulder. The cut off date for the courtesy rate was 16 March 2019.

Please use the following links to book one of the hotels. 

NASA April Room Block Direct Booking Link - Hilton Garden Inn Boulder, CO

NASA April Room Block Direct Booking Link - Embassy Suites Boulder, CO

Under this agreement, rooms and rates are based solely upon hotel availability: As a result, NO rooms are actually being held for us so please book early.

Please note that the link will only work for the contracted dates, 4/15/2019 – 4/19/2019. If you require nights outside of the ones that were in the contract, please have them contact Kayla Simmering on 720.693.9600 or call 303-443-2600 and ask for Maryann. 


Please note:

Cancellation policy: Rooms must be cancelled with a cancellation number obtained by 6pm two days prior to arrival to avoid a cancellation fee (one night's room rate + tax). If the reservation is not cancelled and the guest fails to arrive as scheduled, a no-show fee will be applied (one night's room rate + tax).

Early departure fee: changes in a guest's date of departure AFTER check-in may result in an Early Departure fee of $75.00 and/or the room rate is subject to change as discounts may have been offered because of the longer stay pattern originally proposed.

Parking: There is off road parking. The hotel offers both valet and self-parking. Current prices for the group: daily charges are: valet: $23.00, self: $12.00

Agenda

Day 1

8:00am

Registration & Check-in and Coffee

9:00am

Diane Davies / Karen Michael (NASA ESDIS, GSFC)

Welcome to Workshop

9:10am

Chris Justice (UWG Chair)

Chairs Perspective and Charge for the Meeting


NASA HQ perspective. Earth Science Vision and what’s coming up that is relevant to LANCE

9:20am

Alfreda Hall,

NASA HQ,

NASA HQ Perspective and Earth Science perspective: what new data streams are planned for the next 2-3 years that they would like to see with a NRT capability  (Q&A)

9:50

David Green,

NASA HQ

Applied Science Perspective on LANCE

10.10

Andrew Mitchell (NASA ESDIS)

Updates from EOSDIS  

(including updates on the cloud)

10.30

Coffee break

Taking stock of LANCE – what has been achieved

11:00

Dawn Lowe (NASA ESDIS)

Taking stock of LANCE – The early days: ESDIS management perspective

11.15

Karen Michael (NASA ESDIS)

Taking stock of LANCE – where we are now

11.30

Diane Davies (NASA ESDIS)

LANCE: metrics and reflections from users

12.00 – 1.30 Lunch

Opportunities for collaboration

13:30am

Sean Helfrich and Michael Soracco (NOAA)

NOAA Coast Watch

13.50

Kelvin Brentzel  (NASA GSFC, DRL)

Direct Readout Laboratory and their provision of NRT data

14:10

Ryan Boller and Matt Cechini (NASA GSFC, Worldview and GIBS)

Update from Worldview and GIBS

14:35

Disasters Portal representative (TBD)

Demonstration of the Disasters Portal

15:00

Tea break

Input from UWG members:

15:20

Josh Cossuth, NRL/Monterey/Washington DC

New LANCE UWG member presentation members on their role / interest in LANCE

15:35

Paul Meyers, NASA/MSFC/SPoRT

New LANCE UWG member presentation members on their role / interest in LANCE

15:50

Miguel Roman, USRA

New LANCE UWG member presentation members on their role / interest in LANCE

16.05

Other UWG members -

5-10 mins each - provide overview of the user community they represent, how data are used and their view on what NASA should be doing re: NRT data and imagery.

17:00

Chris Justice

Discussion on the way forward

17:30 pm

End of Day 1

6:30pm

Group Dinner

DAY 2

8:45am

Check-in and Coffee

9:00am

Diane Davies / Karen Michael

Welcome back to the Workshop

9:05

Chris Justice

Agenda and follow up discussion from yesterday

9.30

Minnie /Diane

Updates on switch from Rapid Response: Worldview Snapshots and the transition from Rapid Response including. Update on gallery and swath images

Updates from the LANCE elements

9:45

Feng Ding

(NASA GSFC)

AIRS and MLS

Status and planned updates

9.55

Sharon Ray

(NASA JPL)

AIRS – Updating algorithms and imagery t

10:10

Sherry Harrison (UAH)

AMSR2 and ISS LIS

Updates and progress on operational uses of LIS

10:25

Robert Wolfe

(NASA GSFC)

MODIS and VIIRS including an updated on the flood mapping transition

Updates and plans for NOAA 20/JPSS-1

10:50

Diane Davies

Update on FIRMS

11:00

Tian Yao (NASA GSFC)

Update on Black Marble

11:10

Coffee break

 

11:40

Dan Ziskin, NCAR

Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) NRT

Updates on MOPITT (TERRA) measuring CO in the upper Troposphere.

12:00

Jess Braun, UWM

VIIRS Atmosphere

Updates on Cloud mask and Deep Blue Aerosol

12:20

Phil Durbin, NASA GSFC

OMI and OMPS

Updates and plans for NOAA 20

13:00

Makhan Virdi, NASA ASDC

MISR

Updates

13:20

Lunch

14.20

 

Chris Justice

Meeting Wrap up and Summary of Actions

14.30 – 15.30

Ryan/Minnie/Matt

Worldview & GIBS Session: Depending on UWG - this could be a tutorial and/or a chance for the GIBS / Worldview teams to exchange ideas with the UWG on the representation of LANCE imagery. 

Close meeting 3.30

15.30

 

Optional tour of NCAR

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