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Agenda

2009 Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009
8:00 AM 9:00 AM Registration
Morning    
9:00 AM 9:05 AM Welcome:  Greg Stensaas
9:05 AM 9:30 AM Invited Speaker: John Ahlrichs: RapidEye
9:30 AM 9:55 AM Invited Speaker: Brad Doorn: President ASPRS
9:55 AM 10:55 AM Government Overview Session
9:55 AM 10:20 AM USGS - Dr. Bruce Quirk - Land Remote Sensing Program Manager
10:20 AM 10:35 AM Break
10:35 AM 11:00 AM NGA - Corena Alexander - Deputy Chief, Sensor Assimilation Division,ASX,
Acting Branch Chief, Commercial Data Integration Branch, ASXC.
11:00 AM 11:25 AM USDA - Mr. Glenn Bethel - Remote Sensing Advisor
11:25 AM 11:50 AM NASA - Kurt Thome, Physical Scientist Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA GSFC-  NASA missions and their role in commercial remote sensing
11:50 AM 12:15 PM NOAA - Jane D'Aguanno - NOAA Digital Imagery
12:15 PM 1:15 PM Lunch (provided with registration)
Set up posters
Afternoon    
1:15 PM 2:15 PM Land Imaging Panel Discussion
2:15 PM 2:30 PM Break
2:30 PM 5:00 PM
Session 1:  MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGERY - (Chair: Bob Tetrault, USDA)
2:30 PM 2:55 PM Stensaas, Greg / Chander, USGS EROS / SGT -  Quality Assurance Framework for Earth Observation (QA4EO)
2:55 PM 3:20 PM  Steve Mackin, DMC International Imaging Ltd. - Improved Radiometric Calibration of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation using a “Gold” Standard Satellite - preliminary results
3:20 PM 3:45 PM Scott Douglass, RapidEye - Post-launch Calibration of the RapidEye Satellite System
3:45 PM 4:20 PM Julio D'agle, INPE - Geometric and Radiometric Assessment of CBERS and Landsat Products Generated by INPE
4:20 PM 4:45 PM Hayes, Ronald, SGT / USGS EROS - Radiometric and Geometric Assessment of the CBERS-2B, SPOT-5, and RapidEye
4:45 PM 5:00 PM First day wrap-up - announcements, etc
5:00 PM 6:30 PM Poster Session / Reception
     
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008
8:00 AM 8:30 AM Registration
Morning    
8:30 AM 11:30 AM
Session 1:  MEDIUM RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY (cont.) - (Chair: Bob Tetrault, USDA)
8:30 AM 8:55 AM Dennis Helder, Department of Engineering South Dakota State University (SDSU) Consistent Calibration of the Landsat MSS Archive 
8:55 AM 9:20 AM Cowart, Russell / Mamini Jill, i-cubed : information integration & imaging - Alaska Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative:  Exploring Medium and High Resolution Commercial Imagery Solutions to Meet Statewide Mapping Needs in Alaska
9:20 AM 9:45 AM Robert Ryan, Mississippi State University - Next Generation Low Earth Orbit Ocean Color Satellites and their and Cal-Val Requirements
9:45 AM 10:10 AM David Aaron, Department of Engineering South Dakota State University (SDSU) Radiometric Calibration Validation of Satellite Sensor Systems
10:10 AM 10:35 AM Mary Pagnutti, Mississippi State University - Next Generation Thermal Imaging Satellite Systems and their Cal-Val Requirements
10:35 AM 10:50 AM Break
10:50 AM 11:05 AM Timothy J. Puckorius, Chairman and CEO EOTec - Resourcesat and Cartosat – EOTec Exclusive Distributors for Antrix – Current and Future Missions
11:05 AM 11:30 AM Paul Stephens, DMCii - The Next Generation DMC Satellites - UKDMC-2, and Deimos-1
11:30 AM 3:55 PM Session 2:  HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY - (Chair: Terry Lehman, NGA) 
11:30 AM 11:55 AM Paul Bresnahan, Observera Inc. / NGA CCAP - Absolute Geolocation Accuracy Evaluation of EROS-B Level 1A Imagery
11:55 AM 12:20 PM Byron Smiley, DigitalGlobe - The Absolute and Relative Geolocation Accuracies of QB02 and WV01
12:20 PM 1:30 PM Lunch (provided with registration)
Posters available for viewing
Afternoon    
1:30 PM 1:55 PM Kevin Kohm, GeoEye - On-Orbit Geolocation Accuracy and Image Quality Performance of the GeoEye-1 High Resolution Imaging Satellite
1:55 PM 2:20 PM Greg Buckman, SPOT Image Corporation - SPOT Image Corporation Products and Services
2:20 PM 2:45 PM Howard Bowen, ITT Space Systems Division - Correlation of Target-dependent Calibration Methods used to Determine Absolute and Relative Radiometric Accuracy, Monitor Long-term Stability, Assess Stray Light Performance, Measure MTF Performance and Estimate Effective Focal Length for the IKONOS Space-based Remote Sensing Payload
2:45 PM 3:10 PM Rani Hellerman, ImageSat - The Growing Civilian Market for VHR Satellite Imagery
3:10 PM 3:25 PM
Break
3:25 PM 3:40 PM Paul Bresnahan, Observera Inc. / NGA CCAP - Absolute Geolocation Accuracy Evaluation of WorldView-1 Basic 1B Imagery
3:40 PM 3:55 PM Dennis Helder, Department of Engineering South Dakota State University (SDSU) - Towards a Worldwide Library of Pseudo-Invariant Radiometric Calibration Sites
3:55 PM 4:45 PM
Session 3:  HIGH RESOLUTION AERIAL IMAGERY - (Chair: )
3:55 PM 4:20 PM Klaus Neumann, Z/I Imaging Solutions Centre, Intergraph - Digital Aerial Camera Technology Update
4:20 PM 4:45 PM David Pollock, Center for Applied Optics, University of Alabama Huntsville - A Constant 63 µr Resolution Five frames-s-1 Camera, Scalable from 4 MP to > 1 GP
4:45 PM 5:00 PM Second day wrap-up - announcements, etc - 
6:30 PM 8:00 PM
No Host Dinner  - Champps Fair Oaks, Fair Oaks Mall
     
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2008    
8:00 AM 8:30 AM Registration
Morning    
8:00 AM 11:50 AM Session 3: HIGH RESOLUTION AERIAL IMAGERY (cont.) - (Chair: )
8:30 AM 8:55 AM Lloyd Coulter, Department of Geography, San Diego State University - Monitoring the International Land Borders of the United States Using High Resolution Imagery
8:55 AM 9:20 AM Thomas Murdock, Frontier Technology, Incorporated - Using the Integrated Sensor Analysis Tool for Remote Sensing Data Visualization and Calibration
9:20 AM 9:45 AM Sherry Loy, Global Marketing Insights, Inc - USGS – 2008 African Remote Sensing Research
9:45 AM 10:10 AM Shawana Johnson, Global Marketing Insights, Inc. - The Use and Challenges of Using Multiple Resolution sensors for the Iraq Operational Agricultural Monitoring Project
10:10 AM 10:25 AM
Break
10:25 AM 11:00 AM Berthold Winck / Jochen Dahlke,  Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office - 3D Worlds for the Bundeswehr – The Sensor System and Algorithm and The Process Chain
11:00 AM 11:25 AM Steve Cota, Aerospace Corp. - PICASSO – An End-to-End Image Simulation Tool for Space and Airborne Imaging Systems
11:35 AM 11:50 AM Bill Emison, Merrick & Company - LiDAR/Hyperspectral Data Fusion Analysis
11:50 AM 1:00 PM Lunch (provided with registration)
Take posters down
Afternoon    
1:00 PM 4:10 PM Session 4:  OTHER IMAGING SENSORS  (LiDAR, RADAR, SAR, Hyperspectral) - (Chair: )
1:00 PM 1:25 PM Tom Ager,NGA - Geometric Precision in Space Radar Imaging
1:25 PM 1:50 PM Jason Stoker - Evaluation of Digital Surface Model Generated from WorldView-1 Basic Stereo Imagery
1:50 PM 2:15 PM Paul Bresnahan, Observera Inc. / NGA CCAP - Absolute Geolocation Accuracy Evaluation of Cosmo-Skymed Spotlight and Stripmap Imagery
2:15 PM 2:30 PM  Break
2:30 PM 2:55 PM Simon Kay, Agriculture Unit, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission - Validation of CARTOSAT-1, TerraSAR-X and CosmoSkyMed imagery for use in field area measurement checks
2:55 PM 3:10 PM Paul Bresnahan, Observera Inc. / NGA CCAP - Absolute Geolocation Accuracy Evaluation of TerraSAR-X-1 SpotLight and StripMap Imagery
3:10 PM 3:35 PM Luciana Di Domenico, COSMO-SkyMed - The COSMO-SkyMed Satellite Constellation for Earth Observation and applications
3:35 PM 4:00 PM Bill Emison, Merrick & Company - LiDAR Feature Extraction Methodologies
4:00 PM 4:30 PM Discussion and Conference wrap-up - Drawings