Snow REASoN Meeting Agenda

30 Sept & 01 Oct 2005 – Pine Room, Bren 3526

30 Sept, 9:00am to 5:30pm

Overview

• Dozier: Annual reporting
• Dozier: EndNote database

MODIS acquisition and processing

• Slaughter: Times, bounding boxes, storage
• Slaughter and Painter: Locations (Sierra Nevada, Upper Rio Grande, Tien Shan, CLPX support, Himalaya)
• Painter: MODSCAG clients
• Painter: MODSCAG processing
• Slaughter/Painter/Donahue: End-to-end data flow, end-to-end metadata flow

Validation and improvement of algorithms for snow-covered area and albedo

• Painter: MODIS snow-covered area, grain size, contaminants
• Painter: Effect of geometry
• Nolin: Vegetation-snow interactions and MODSCAG validation
• Rosenthal: Landsat snow-covered area
• Rosenthal: AVHRR snow-covered area
• Rittger: Landsat comparison, fractional vs binary
• Painter: Use of Landsat to validate MODIS
• Dozier: ideas for modified approaches

Snow water equivalence

• Slaughter: AMSR-E acquisition
• Shi: AMSR-E algorithm development

Integration of remote sensing products into hydrologic modeling

• Bales: plans for this year’s activities
• Painter: MODSCAG product suite description
• Rice: Analysis of MODSCAG products in Sierra Nevada
• Rice: Workflow

Dinner at 7:00pm, Santa Barbara City College

01 October, 8:30am - 12:30pm

Database stuff

• Slaughter: ES3 status
• Colee: Remotely accessible database for remote sensing and GIS products
• Donahue: Metadata and formats
• Dozier: Projections, tiling
• Donahue: MMSA database
• Dozier: Snow course and snow pillow data
• Colee/Slaughter: Web interface to database (or other remote strategy)

http://www.snow.ucsb.edu/

• All: Web page design
• Donahue: Updating
• Donahue: Webmaster
• Slaughter: swiki

Presentations and papers

• Donahue/Dozier: Web accessibility
• Dozier: Microsoft eScience, Columbia University
• AGU 2005: Bales, Dozier, Nolin, Painter, Rice, Rittger, Shi, Slaughter
• Others?
• Manuscripts in progress

Wrap-up

• Review of action items
• Next meeting

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