Meeting Agenda

              Alaska SAR Facility User Working Group
                         October 8-9, 2001
      Hardisty Conference Center, Applied Physics Laboratory
                 University of Washington, Seattle

Monday October 8
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 8:00  Coffee and bagels

 8:30  Welcome, logistics (Harry Stern)

 8:40  Introductions
       Each person introduces her/himself, including affiliation and
       how s/he uses SAR data (if a user) or position (if ASF or NASA)

 9:00  NASA HQ report (Waleed Abdalati and Craig Dobson)
       - NASA's view of ASF's future (see also 4:00)
       - NASA/ESA and NASA/CSA agreements on Envisat and Radarsat-2
       - Greenland SAR data from MAMM background mission
       - Use of Svalbard as antenna site / receiving station
       - McMurdo Ground Station operations/funding and NSF position

 9:30  State of ASF and new mission status (Verne Kaupp)
       Envisat, ADEOS II, ALOS, Radarsat-2, and role of ASF

10:30  Break

10:45  ASF and remote sensing research at U. of Alaska (Roger Smith)

11:15  A-PRIME (Larry Ledlow)
       ASF PRocessing and Information Management Enhancement

12:00  Lunch

 1:15  Reports from ASF centers (30 minutes each)
       - Science Center (Nettie LaBelle-Hamer)
       - DAAC (Jim Conner)
       - Operations Center (Carel Lane)
       - Engineering Center (Jamie Marschner)

 3:15  Break

 3:30  NRC Report on Enhancing NASA's Contribution to Polar Science
       - Introduction (Mark Fahnestock)
       - NASA view (Waleed Abdalati)
       - ASF view and actions in response (Jim Conner)

 4:00  Future of ASF (Roger Smith and all)
       - New director - process, timetable, desirable qualifications
       - What can UWG do to promote ASF involvement in future missions?
       - Future direction of ASF, relation to NASA, commercial world

 5:15  Adjourn


Tuesday October 9
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 8:00  Coffee and bagels

 8:30  Data quality (Jeff Lipscomb)
       Cal/val, problems, solutions

 9:00  User Services (Martha Mason and all)
       - User satisfaction
       - Data from foreign ground stations
       - ASF/user communication, web site

 9:45  Pre-telecon discussion of ideas, concerns, recommendations
       on all aspects of ASF (Harry Stern and all)

10:00  Teleconference with Bill Potter and Vanessa Griffin (NASA/Goddard)

10:30  Break

10:50  Reports (about 20 minutes each)
       - NIC activities (Cheryl Bertoia)
       - NOAA activities (Bill Pichel)
       - RGPS (Ron Kwok)
       - Tandem mapping of Antarctica (Ron Kwok)
       - MAMM (Nettie LaBelle-Hamer)

12:30  Lunch

 1:30  Reports (continued)
       - ECHO proposal (Eric Rignot)
       - Alaska DEM (Jim Conner)
       - Seasat (Ben Holt)

 2:30  Executive session
       Assessment, review of action items, recommendations

 3:15  Closing session (all)

 3:30  Adjourn



Revised 10/4/01