| 2009 Civil Commercial Imagery Evaluation Workshop |
| TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009 |
| 8:00 AM |
9:00 AM |
Registration |
| Morning |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008 |
| 8:00 AM |
8:30 AM |
Registration |
| Morning |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2008 |
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| 8:00 AM |
8:30 AM |
Registration |
| Morning |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
