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USDA—FAS/IPAD Seminar

Featuring Resource Sat AWiFS and LISS Data
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Greenbelt, MD
Time Topic Speaker  
8:00—8:30 Registration and
Continental Breakfast 		Hosted and Sponsored By: GeoEye
(Salon A and B Foyer)

8:30—8:45 Host Introductions—Welcome Tim Lewis, President, ASRC MS

8:45—9:10 Keynote:
Data Continuity in the Coming Decade 		Virender Kumar, ISRO

9:10—9:35 Preprocessing of P6-AWiFS for Field Level Data Extraction and Data Mining Jim Hipple, USDA RMA

9:35—10:00 Research to Operational: A Paradigm Shift for the Cropland Data Layer Program Rick Mueller, USDA NASS

10:00—10:30 Break Hosted and Sponsored By: I-Cubed
(Salon A and B Foyer)

10:30—10:55 Integration of Radar and Optical Satellite Imagery to Support Crop Classification Dr. Heather McNairn,
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

10:55—11:20 Deriving Essential Dates of AWiFS Data for the Indentification of Corn and Soybean Fields in the U.S. Heartland Claire Boryan, USDA NASS

11:20—11:45 Cropland Classification Accuracy as a Function of P6-AWiFS Incidence Angle Dave Johnson, USDA NASS

11:45—12:00 IRS in Europe Dr. Rupert Haydn, Euromap

12:00—1:00 Lunch Hosted and Sponsored By: GeoEye
(Annapolis Room)

1:00—1:25 Operational Information Extraction
from P6-AWiFS Imagery 		Dr. Dmitry Varlyguin, GDA Corp.

1:25—1:50 Multi-Date Compositing Techniques Jiyul Chang, SDSU

1:50—2:15 Surface Reflectance with P6-AWiFS Feng Gao, NASA GSFC

2:15—2:45 Break Hosted and Sponsored By: I-Cubed
(Salon A and B Foyer)

2:45—3:10 Norman Ground Station Operations
(What Happens in Norman) 		Toney Cooper, GeoEye

3:10—3:35 Sensor Needs for Agricultural
and Carbon Management 		Ray Hunt, USDA ARS

3:35—4:00 Cross-calibration of the L7 ETM+,
L5 TM, IRS-P6 AWiFS/LISS-III
and CBERS-2 HRCCD sensors 		Gyanesh Chander,
SAIC—EROS Data Center

4:00—4:25 GeoMarc: Spatial DNA for Imagery Metadata Management Dr. Alex Philp,
President, GSC Research

4:25—5:00 P6-AWiFS Data USDA Collection Strategy
& Closing Remarks 		Robert Tetrault,
Satellite and Archive Manager,
USDA FAS/IPAD

As a result of the enhanced capabilities provided through the satellite imagery Prime Vendor Contract, USDA-FAS/IPAD hosted an agriculture seminar on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 featuring ResourceSat AWiFS and LISS data. The seminar was held in Greenbelt, MD, beginning with a continental breakfast, followed by a variety of presentations from industry experts, who discussed such topics as data continuity of Resourcesat, operational programs using AWiFS, advanced data processing techniques for AWiFS, and sensor needs for agriculture and carbon management.


For more information contact Bob Tetrault | robert.tetrault@fas.usda.gov | 202-690-0130
USDA-FAS-CMP-IPAD

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