Summary and Recommendations from the Mexico City Workshop

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• Summary and Recommendations from the Mexico City
  Workshop
• Held October 10-11,2007

Brian Schwind, USFS Remote Sensing Applications
Center EOS-NPP Direct Readout Meeting
March 31 April 4, Bangkok
Thailand
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Workshop Participants

• Hosted by the Commission for the Knowledge and
  Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) at Unidad de
  Seminarios - Universidad Nacional Autónomia de
  México University Campus in Mexico City
• Nearly 60 participants representing 8 countries
• Mexico
• USA
• Germany
• Australia
• Japan
• Argentina
• Trinidad/Tobago
• Russia
• Government, Academia,
  NGO, Commercial

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Workshop Objectives

• Presentation and discussion of
• Status of current and updated land science
  products and algorithms (MODIS C5) and
  integration into the direct readout (DR)
  environment
• Development and implementation of DR data
  processing and visualization technologies
• Discuss requirements to ensure continuity of
  current land science product algorithms and
  applications with future sensor missions
• Technical exchange between DR data producers and
  scientists on land and vegetation science
  algorithms and applications
• Discuss regional/continental DR data integration
  networks

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Status of the Land DR Environment
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Land Product Algorithms/Code

• Algorithms are developed without consideration
  for use in DR environment/community
• Developed by space agencies intended for use by
  the science community
• Standard products generated on centralized
  processing systems
• Algorithm implementation for DR environment is
  not a primary responsibility for product science
  teams
• Limited number of land products have been
  transitioned into the DR environment
• Difficult to obtain timely algorithm updates, new
  algorithms
• No efficient mechanism to provide feedback to
  science teams on product algorithm/code

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Communication/Coordination

• Land DR community is highly diverse and spread
  throughout the world
• Academia/research
• Government
• NGOs
• Private sector
• Need to identify priorities and leverage common
  interests of DR ground stations with similar
  goals and needs
• Currently few opportunities for land DR stations
  to interact
• Share customized algorithms for regional
  adaptations
• Share developed technologies and experience base
• No structured mechanism for the land DR community
  to communicate with the land science teams,
  NASA-DRL, and NOAA-IPO programs

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Available Sensors

• Land DR community utilizes a range of sensing
  systems
• Moderate resolution land DR practitioners (MODIS
  and AVHRR) do not have a forum dedicated to their
  community
• A complete assessment of current/future satellite
  sensors that could be utilized for land
  applications has yet to be developed
• Direct broadcast enabled
• No direct readout subscription fee
• Spatial/spectral specifications
• Need to communicate with space agencies to
  identify other potential sensors that could be
  utilized for land DR applications (JAXA, ESA,
  ISRO, etc.)

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Regional Data Networks

• Application specific objectives (fire, floods,
  emergency response/support, etc.) have been
  established
• Sentinel Asia
• USDA Forest Service RSAC
• CONABIO
• GISTDA
• GOFC-GOLD facilitates several regional networks
  of data providers and data users to increase the
  availability and utility of satellite data
• Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNET)
• Land DR community needs to investigate similar,
  scalable networking opportunities to better
  support and enhance regional land applications

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Future Sensors and Continuity

• Planning and preparation amongst the DR community
  for the NPP/NPOESS VIIRS era is needed
• EOS/NPP mission overlap is a primary concern for
  operational users addressing product continuity
• Need to maintain continuity between MODIS land
  products and similar VIIRS environmental data
  records (EDRs)
• Some MODIS land products are not VIIRS EDRs

Source NOAA IPO NPOESS
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A Look at Existing Land DR Products
X in operational production B beta testing P
algorithm soon to be released for testing in
IPOPP
(Ground stations represented at Mexico City
workshop in October 2007)
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Land DR Product Availability

• Several sources for standard and custom source
  code for land DR algorithms
• NASA-DRL is the portal for sanctioned land
  science DR code for EOS and NPP/NPOESS
• Portal for sanctioned land science DR code for
  AVHRR
• NOAA/NESDIS
• Need for listing of sources
  of customized/regionally
  adapted land products code

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Direct Readout Station Distribution

• 125 X band stations in 30 countries acquiring
  MODIS (NASA)
• 500 L band stations in 70 countries acquiring
  AVHRR (NOAA)
• A complete census of active ground stations is
  needed
• Currently no comprehensive census of active
  regional land DR networks
• Europe
• Asia
• Australasia
• Central Asia
• N. America
• S. America
• Africa

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X-band ground station sites Source NASA DRL
L-band ground stations sites Source NOAA
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Issues and Needs within the Land DR Community

• Concurrent breakout sessions focused on thematic
  and programmatic issues and led to several
  recommendations to the DR user community, mission
  programs and land science teams

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Thematic Breakout Discussion Topics

• Prioritize new land products for transition into
  land DR
• Identify existing land DR products requiring
  enhancement/revision
• Accessibility of land DR product code and related
  technologies
• Data sharing networks Status and requirements
• Cal/Val

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Programmatic Breakout Discussion Topics

• DR community coordination
• Linkages between NASA DRL IPO algorithm
  division
• Coordinate development of standard science
  products and DR algorithms and products
• Considerations for future systems
• Data availability
• Open access
• Continued DR planning/scheduling
• Continuity
• MODIS to VIIRS transition
• International Polar Orbiting Processing Package
  (IPOPP)

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Workshop Recommendations
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Workshop Recommendations

• Establish the International Land DR Coordinating
  Committee (ILDRCC) under the auspices of
  GOFC-GOLD
• provide advice to the space agencies on priority
  land products for the DR domain
• Provide feedback on current land algorithms/code
  and instrument calibration
• coordinate participation in regional community
  validation and calibration and initiatives
  adopting international standards and protocols
• coordinate with other discipline groups concerned
  with DR algorithms and products
• promote the development of regional Land DR
  networks
• promote the development of DR capability from
  international moderate resolution programs

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Workshop Recommendations

• NASA DRL serve as a central portal for priority
  land algorithms/code and data products from MODIS
  and VIIRS
• Formal linkage established between the VIIRS
  direct readout mission and the IPO algorithm
  division

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Workshop Recommendations

• DRL works with the ILDRCC to help coordinate the
  development of priority DR products which are
  currently unavailable in the DR domain and
  implement these products within the IPOPP
  framework
• Burned area
• Live fuel moisture
• Leaf area index
• Evapotranspiration
• Net primary productivity
• others

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International Land DR Coordinating Committee
NASA / NOAA NPOESS-IPO
DR Community
Alpha Test Teams
NPP Fire
Community Input / DR workshops
Land PEATE EDRs/ESDRs
DR Users
IPO
NASA DRL
NOAA CLASS Archive Distrib.
Community Land DR SPA Code
IPOPP
NGST SDR
SPA Wrapped EDRs
IDPS
Land EDRs
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Workshop Recommendations

• ILDRCC coordinates an annual workshop
• Develop other communication tools to enable
  sustained dialogue within the DR user community

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Next Steps

• Leverage remote sensing conferences/meetings to
  develop awareness and solicit participation in
  ILDRCC
• Develop a schedule of dedicated ILDRCC meetings
• Develop and expand an ILDRCC website as a
  communication portal for the international DR
  community
• Begin developing an inventory of existing DR
  stations, data networks, and land
  products/applications
• Coordinate with DRL to prioritize and implement
  land products in IPOPP framework

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Breakout Session 445-545

• Overview of ILDRCC
• Members and participation
• Needed communication tools
• Near term actions
• Needs Concerns for Land DR Products and Product
  Improvement/Continuity
• Review of product discussions in MX
• Breakout participants - comments additions

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Thank You
Workshop report available at http//www.conabio.g
ob.mx/conocimiento/premota/doctos/ http//www.fao.
org/gtos/gofc-gold/ land_direct_readout_report.pdf

• International Direct Readout Coordination
  Committee
• Committee Chairs
• Tom Bobbe Rainer Ressl
  Craig Smith
  USDA Forest Service
  CONABIO
  Geoscience Australia
• tbobbe_at_fs.fed.us Rainer.Ressl_at_conabio
  .gob.mx CraigJ.Smith_at_ga.gov.au