Hi Jeff This sounds good! Just to let you know, for Sentinel 1a/b (C-band radar, now 6 days repeat cycle) there is a dedicated bi-weekly observation scenario for the entire Earth, basically concerning the different possible acquisition modes of the sensor: https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-1/observation-scenar.... This might well cover regions with glaciers/hazards. Best, Frank On Sep 5, 2016, at 8:49 PM, Jeffrey wrote:
Dear GLIMS colleagues, I seek your interest/involvement in this opportunity, which is still in definition and hence includes a possibility for you to influence the process, goals, and regions of interest.
We have an opportunity to provide input to CEOS, the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites. This input presently is to be provided through the CEOS working group on Disasters, but our input might ultimately extend beyond the disaster theme. High-mountain multi-process hazards and disasters associated with glaciers is the initial focal point.
Pending GLIMS/GAPHAZ/glacier community interest, I will host a 1-day meeting (4 to 8 hours, depending on feedback) on Sunday 11 December, 2016, in San Francisco, prior to the AGU meeting. (Specific venue pending.) Our goals will be to explore possible satellite-observing hotspots, where we may have a potential to acquire abundant coordinated satellite data of many types oriented around the theme of "Satellite Observations to Cover Multi-Process Glacier Hazard and Disaster Hotspots: Nepal, Cascades, and Northern Andes." Where glaciers occur in high mountains, there may exist other hazard processes in additions to those directly connected with ice: seismicity, meteorological floods, and volcanic eruptions, for example. These may trigger cascading processes, which may include ice and snow avalanches, rockfalls and large landslides, river damming impoundment floods and landslide dammed lake outburst floods, glacial lake outburst floods and debris flows, lahars, etc. I solicit brief presentations (5 to 20 minutes, as desired and permitted by the available time) and extended discussion of what could constitute needed high-intensity, multi-sensor satellite observations over focused hotspot regions. The Nepal Himalaya and the Cascades have already been proposed as CEOS hotspots. I wish to make a case supporting these and our involvement, but also make a case for at least one more focus area, which I propose to be the northern Andes, where glaciers and snow coexist with glacial lakes, high seismicity, and/or volcanoes. The Andes hotspot may include any combination of Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. I am not excluding other ideas. I cannot make promises about where this initiative will go, except to say that NASA has encouraged our exploration of such concepts.
I will learn more about CEOS and the CEOS process and interests later this week and will have amendments to this announcement to those who send me an expression of interest.
There is an option of holding another related meeting of opportunity in Kathmandu after the Tihar celebration on November 2, 3, or 4, again pending local interest in that case, where I presume the focus of interest would be satellite observation planning over Nepal.
If interested in either meeting, please respond with your thoughts and indication of interest and include the word CEOS in your subject line.
Sincerely, Jeff Kargel _______________________________________________ GLIMS mailing list GLIMS@nsidc.org https://nsidc.org/mailman/listinfo/glims