GLIMS Update: (1) JHune 6 GLIMS working dinner session in Maryland

[jkargel at usgs.gov]

Dear GLIMS colleagues,

We are pleased to formalize our previous plans to hold a GLIMS
working-group session on Wednesday, June 6, 3:30-8:30 p.m.  This meeting
will be held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Remote
Sensing in Glaciology (June 4-6) in College Park, Maryland, U.S.A., and
immediately follows a Symposium-related tour of Goddard Spaceflight Center.
We invite ideas/speakers for regional center presentations, working-group
presentations,  and topics for open-forum discussion.  The number of
participants will be sharply limited at 50 maximum, and available time for
presentations will be sharply limited, so please submit the following
information if you plan on attending:

  Full Name __________________________
  Name to appear on badge ________________
  Institution _________________________
  Email address _______________________
  Title of any regional center presentation you wish to make
_______________________________
  Titleor description  of any suggested discussion topics
_______________________________
  Would you be willing to serve as a discussion leader?  Yes ___   No___

There will be a $25 registration fee (advance payment will be required),
which will include payment for a catered dinner.  Information on payment,
more detailed meeting logistics and lodging information, and a more
complete meeting agenda will be sent in a future mailing.   An inquiry
regarding meal preferences will also be sent at that time to all those
responding to this announcement.

Please circulate this meeting announcement to anybody you feel may be
interested in attending.

This session will include brief presentations by those interested in making
one, a catered dinner, and we hope lots of discussion.   The agenda as
roughed out is very tight and makes for a long day, for which we apologize,
but the desire was to avoid requiring an extra day to be added to the
Symposium schedule.  Tentative agenda items will include:

3:30-4:00 Refreshments and poster viewing

4:00-4:05 Introductory remarks

4:05-5:15  Reports by Flagstaff and Boulder groups
      ASTER status update: instrument, acquision planning, and data
processing (Hugh Kieffer) 5 min.
      Sample of initial ASTER glacier images (Rick Wessels) 5 min.
      Glacier data guides (ow to get data from EDC, how to use tools, how
to get data from Flagstaff) Rick Wessels 5 min.
      RC --> NSIDC database data transfer formats (Bruce Raup)   5 min.
      Image analysis system-- tools, who is using what, what tools can be
shared,... (Bruce Raup) 5 min.
      Data distribution plan (Hugh Kieffer) 5 min.
      Discussion of above topics 15 min.
      Quality assessment processing-- selection of sample scenes to be
analyzed by all RCs, analysis to be completed (Bruce Raup) 5 min.
      Discussion 10 min.
      Landsat data buy (Hugh Kieffer) 5 min.
      International support for GLIMS and programmatic links (TOPC, GCOS,
ICSI, UNESCO, ...) (Jeff Kargel) 5 min.

5:15-5:45 Working group reports
      Andy Kaab
      ?
      ?

5:45-6:45 Dinner (catered, with 30 minutes of dinnertime presentation(s)
TBD)

6:45-7:45 Regional Center presentations

7:45-8:00 Open forum discussion

8:00-8:30 For those with stamina: Poster viewing and informal discussions

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Jeffrey S. Kargel

U.S. Geological Survey
2255 N. Gemini Dr.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Telephone (+1) (520) 556-7034
Fax (+1) (520) 556-7014
Email: jkargel at usgs.gov