CSPP/IMAPP

FINAL PROGRAM - (PDF)
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FINAL PROGRAM

Tuesday	14 April 2015
	08:00 - 09:00		Registration
	09:00		Welcome Address from the Director General	Alain Ratier, EUMETSAT
	09:15		The Advanced Fire Information System: Past, present and future	Philip Frost, CSIR
	10:00		Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) Science and Applications	Mitch Goldberg, NOAA
	10:30 - 11:00		BREAK
	11:00		Evolution of the EUMETSAT Advanced Retransmission Service (EARS)	Anders Soerensen, EUMETSAT
	11:30		Direct Readout at the Meteorological Service of Canada	David Bradley, Environment Canada
	12:00 - 13:00		LUNCH
	13:00		FY-3C VIRR/MERSI geolocation and on-orbit geometric calibration	Lei Yang, NSMC/CMA
	13:30		A new direct-broadcast facility at Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)	Katja Hungershoefer, DWD
	14:00		Sodankyla National Satellite Data Center (NSDC): Current and Future Satellite Missions and Products	Timo Ryyppo, FMI
	14:30 - 15:00		BREAK
	15:00		A Near Real Time Monitoring System with CSPP for Alpine and Mountain Regions	Roberto Monsorno, EURAC
	15:30		Monitoring Vegetation Activity in Hungary using Direct Broadcast MODIS data	Aniko Kern, Eotvos Lorand University
	16:00		Evaluation of direct broadcast and global microwave sounder data from FY-3C	Nigel Atkinson, Met Office
	16:20		Operational Implementation of Suomi NPP regional services at EUMETSAT	Ester Rojo, EUMETSAT
	17:00		ADJOURN
	17:30 - 19:30		Ice Breaker and Poster Reception	EUMETSAT
Wednesday	15 April 2015
	09:00		EPS Second Generation	Conor Keegan, Peter Schluessel, Derick Lean (EUMETSAT)
	10:00		Community Satellite Processing Package - Facilitating Improvements in Real-time Satellite Data Applications	Allen Huang, CIMSS/SSEC
	10:30 - 11:00		BREAK
	11:00		IMAPP: Supporting Aqua and Terra Direct Broadcast Users for 15 Years	Kathy Strabala, CIMSS/SSEC
	11:30		CSPP polar-orbiting satellite software and products	Liam Gumley, CIMSS/SSEC
	12:00 - 13:00		LUNCH
	13:00		CSPP GEO	Graeme Martin, CIMSS/SSEC
	13:20		VIIRS to CrIS mapping for Suomi NPP	Pascal Brunel, Meteo France
	13:40		Snow RGB composite for Suomi NPP VIIRS	Pascale Roquet, Meteo France
	14:00		Real-time Generation of River Ice and Flood Products Derived from VIIRS Imagery	David Santek, CIMSS/SSEC
	14:20		Comparison of local CSPP VIIRS SDRs with global NOAA products for validation and monitoring of the EARS-VIIRS service	Stephan Zinke, EUMETSAT
	14:40 - 15:10		BREAK WITH POSTER VIEWING
	15:10		Review of Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS) Improvements and Integration within CSPP	Christopher Grassotti, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
	15:30		EUMETSAT Nowcasting SAF direct readout package PPS - Status	Adam Dybbroe, SHMI
	15:50		ADJOURN
	16:00 - 22:00		Banquet -- Excursion to Heidelberg
Thursday	16 April 2015
	09:00		Reading and Processing VIIRS data efficiently with Pytroll	Martin Raspaud, SMHI
	09:20		Polar2Grid Version 2.0	David Hoese, CIMSS/SSEC
	09:40		Applications with the VIIRS DNB in CSPP CLAVR-x	Andi Walther, CIMSS/SSEC
	10:00		Update from the High Latitude Proving Ground	Eric Stevens, GINA
	10:20		Using the NOAA Unique CrIS/ATMS processing System (NUCAPS) to explore hyper-spectral sounding capabilities during extreme events: lessons learned from the CalWater 2015 campaign	Antonia Gambacorta, STC
	10:40 - 11:00		BREAK
	11:00		Global Coordination of Direct Readout And Relay of Satellite Data (DRARS), an initiative of the World Meteorological Organization	Mikael Rattenborg, WMO
	11:20		An Effective Algorithm for Estimating the Dust Density of Ahwaz and Abadan Cities in Iran using MODIS Imagery	Mohsen Ghamary Asl, K.N. Toosi University of Technology
	11:40		An overview of meteorological near real-time satellite data usage in Russia	Katerina Melnik, ScanEx
	12:00 - 13:00		LUNCH
	13:00 - 14:00		Tour of EUMETSAT satellite control facilities
	14:00		Synergistic use of remote sensing instruments in data-poor regions to determine causes and policy solutions to high total column CO not explained by biomass burning in southern Africa	Helen de Klerk, Stellenbosch University
	14:20		SeaSpace users of TeraScan and CSPP software world-wide	Kota Prasad, SeaSpace
	14:40		Discussion and Wrap-up
	16:00		End of Meeting

NOTES TO ATTENDEES
Oral presentations will be ~15-20 minutes including time for questions.

POSTERS

Poster boards will be in portrait orientation with the dimensions: 1.2 m (4 ft) wide by 1.5 m (6 ft) high. The poster can be one unit or many units, as long as the total size fits the poster board. Paragraph and figure caption text should be at least 24-point font (0.9 cm high) and headers at least 36 point font (1.2 cm high). Mounting materials (i.e., push pins) will be available onsite.

If you are presenting a poster and need to print/reprint your poster, please find below a list of copy shops near the venue. You can also contact them via email.

Networking events

A Poster Reception will be held on Tuesday evening at EUMETSAT (included in registration fee). On Wednesday evening, 15 April, our banquet will take place in Heidelberg. We depart EUMETSAT by coach bus at 16:00. Participants will first pay a visit to the historic Heidelberg Castle, followed by ride down to the Old Town of Heidelberg on the funicular railway. Participants will then have a chance to wander through the beautiful streets of the old centre of Heidelberg before embarking on a river cruise along the Neckar river. A dinner of locally sourced German cuisine will be served aboard the solar powered boat while participants sit back and relax and enjoy the beautiful surroundings of the Neckar valley. The banquet is included in the registration fee.

For more information, contact Maria Vasys.