2018 MUG Meeting – Agenda
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All MUG Meeting activities will take place at Union South on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. [Google map] All times below are subject to change.
Tuesday 22 May:
Day 1 of the meeting, and the first of two days of presentations and discussions. Registration check-in will take place from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. outside of Varsity Hall 1. The meeting will take place in Varsity Hall 1 and run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., followed by the working reception from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday 23 May:
Day 2 of the meeting consists of the second and final day of presentations and discussions. The meeting will take place in Varsity Hall 1 and run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday 24 May:
Day 3 of the meeting, consisting of the McIDAS workshop. This day offers optional McIDAS-X and McIDAS-V training and thus requires that the additional training fee (see the Information page) to have been paid at registration. On this day, continental breakfast will take place from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m., and the McIDAS training will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. See the McIDAS Training Session section below for details.
Here is the planned schedule for the main meeting (presentations). All times, topics and presenters are subject to change.
Tuesday 22 May 2018 – Varsity Hall 1:
| Time | Topic/Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Registration Check-in | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Meeting Starts with Introductions and Agenda Review | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | McIDAS Program Status | Dave Santek (SSEC) |
| 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | McIDAS Users’ Group (MUG) Status Update | Becky Schaffer (SSEC) |
| 11:00 – 11:20 a.m. | McIDAS-XCD 2018.1 and Replacement Update | Kevin Baggett (SSEC) |
| 11:20 – 11:40 a.m. | SSEC Data Ingestor (SDI) | Scott Mindock (SSEC) |
| 11:40 – noon | SSEC Satellite Data Services | Jerrold Robaidek (SSEC) |
| noon – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch on Your Own | |
| 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | McIDAS-X Software Demonstration | Jay Heinzelman and Dave Santek (SSEC) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. | NOAA Satellites & McIDAS at ESPC | Clay Davenport (ESPC/OSDPD/NSOF) |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Group Photo and Break | |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | SDS RabbitMQ Messaging System | Rick Kohrs (SSEC) |
| 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. | McIDAS-X at NASA SPoRT | Kevin McGrath (MSFC) |
| 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. | McIDAS Utility at the Aviation Weather Center | Amanda Terborg (AWC) |
| 4:15 – 4:30 p.m. | GOES-16 Dissemination in Unidata | Tom Yoksas (Unidata) |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | McIDAS Advisory Committee (MAC) Update and Group Discussion | Kris Bedka (NASA-Langley) and Jason Taylor (NOAA/NESDIS) |
| 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Working Reception – Union South Pavilion |
Wednesday 23 May 2018 – Varsity Hall 1:
| Time | Topic/Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. Optional |
Today’s start time is 11:00 a.m. because of an SSEC Director candidate public presentation by one of the four finalists. Today’s presentation, Always Searching for New and Novel Applications of Satellite Data, is by Bryan Duncan, a research physical scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a project scientist for the Aura satellite mission. It takes place in Union South (same location as the MUG Meeting) in the Marquee Theatre from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. You are welcome to attend. | |
| 11:00 a.m. – noon | McIDAS-V Software Demonstration | Bob Carp and Jay Heinzelman (SSEC) |
| noon – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch on Your Own | |
| 1:30 – 1:50 p.m. | Science Made Simple with McIDAS-V and CDP | Tommy Jasmin (SSEC/CIMSS) |
| 1:50 – 2:20 p.m. | McIDAS Utilization at NASA-Langley | Kris Bedka (NASA-Langley) |
| 2:20 – 2:30 p.m. | McIDAS-V for International Training | Erin Dagg (CIRA) |
| 2:30 – 2:50 p.m. | CIMSS Support of JPSS | William Straka (SSEC/CIMSS) |
| 2:50 – 3:05 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:05 – 3:45 p.m. | RealEarth Update | Russ Dengel (SSEC) |
| 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. | CIMSS Satellite Blog | Scott Lindstrom (SSEC/CIMSS) |
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | McIDAS History & Future | Dave Santek (SSEC) |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Open Discussion | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Meeting Adjourns | |
Thursday 24 May 2018 – McIDAS Training Session (optional)
Day 3 (May 24th) is an optional training day and thus requires that the additional training fee (see the Information page) to have been paid at registration. On this day, continental breakfast will take place from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m., and the McIDAS training will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The room location will be communicated during the meeting portion (days 1 and 2).
If possible, attendees should bring their own laptop, with McIDAS-X 2018.1 and McIDAS-V 1.7u1 installed, for training. If you are not able to bring a laptop please contact us so we can help make suitable arrangements.
The McIDAS Workshop is a full-day session that will cover new satellites and new features in McIDAS-X and McIDAS-V. The new satellites section will include information about GOES-16, GOES-17 and NOAA-20, as well as instructions for making and using local datasets in McIDAS-X. The new McIDAS-X features section will include exciting enhancements in versions 2017.2 and 2018.1, such as the Expanded Stretch Feature’s bit-depth changes to increase the detail in displayed imagery, the new RGBDISP command to loop color images, support for GOES-17 and NOAA-20, updates to GOES-16 and -17 GLM list and display commands, and ABI L2 Products usage. The new McIDAS-V features section will include using VIIRS data to generate RGBs and remove bowtie deletion lines, investigating GOES-16 L1b data using various display types and formulas, and running a script to display a loop of realtime imagery from a remote ADDE server.
[05/15/2018 Update: There will not be a RealEarth segment during the Thursday McIDAS Training Session. Instead, a longer RealEarth demonstration is planned during the meeting on Wednesday.]
| For more information about the 2018 MUG Meeting, send e-mail to Nancy Troxel-Hoehn or call her at (608) 263-6721. To register, go to the MUG Meeting Registration Form. |
Note: SSEC reserves the right to modify or cancel the meeting and/or training sessions if the number of registrations do not meet that needed to sufficiently cover the costs. The registration deadline is April 6th, and any decision to cancel the meeting and/or training will be made by April 13th. SSEC also reserves the right to limit the number of attendees per site or organization due to limited space in the MUG Meeting facilities (auditorium and computer labs).