4^th NOAA Hyperspectral Workshop

August 17-19, 2004

Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

Madison WI

Updated: August 16, 2004

Goals :

• Update on Radiative Transfer (RT), both in the visible/near IR and the infrared

· Explore broadband adequacy versus Hyperspectral necessity for environmental characterizations (land, ocean, atmosphere)

• Discuss some of the instrument trade-space with respect to applications
• Understand the roles of LEO and GEO for various applications
• Familiarization with tools for interrogating and visualizing hyperspectral data

Questions:

• What are the advantages/disadvantages of Hyperspectral over multispectral data?
• Bring slides!

· What are the future directions/shortfalls for Hyperspectral radiative transfer?

· How can NOAA best prepare for autonomous instrument synergy?

· What are the future directions/shortfalls for data compression?

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4^th NOAA Hyperspectral Workshop

Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

Tuesday Afternoon 17 August 2004

Introduction

1300-1310 Welcome Steve Ackerman, CIMSS

1310-1320 Introductory Remarks/Logistics/Agenda T. Schmit, NOAA NESDIS
& Ed Howard, NOAA

1320-1330 NOAA’s needs for hyper-spectral imaging T. Schmit, NOAA NESDIS

and sounding

Issues of hyperspectral data in relationship to Radiative Transfer (RT)

1330-1345 IR RT

1345-1400 IR RT (recent updates) Larrabee Strow, UMBC

1400-1415 RT of clouds T. Greenwald, CIMSS

1415-1430 Discussion All

1430-1445 Break

1445-1515 Vis/NearIR RT Mike Griffin MIT/LL &

A. Heidinger, NOAA NESDIS

Applications of hyperspectral data

1515-1545 Atmosphere Summary + discussion Allen Huang, CIMSS

1545-1615 Climate + discussion Hsiao-hua Burke, MIT/LL

1615-1645 Tropical Applications M. DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS

1645-1700 Temporal/spectral/spatial J. Purdom, CIRA

1700-1715 Closing Discussions for Tuesday All

Dinner – Location: Informal in the area

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4^th NOAA Hyperspectral Workshop

Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

Wednesday 18 August 2004

0825-0830 Intro/Logistics T. Schmit, NOAA NESDIS

Instrument Options

0830-0845 What is HES? Monica Coakley, MIT/LL

0845-0900 Grating Richard Baron, JPL

0900-0915 Interferometer Hank Revercomb, SSEC

0915-0930 Discussions All

Applications (Continued from Tuesday)

0930-1000 NWP + discussion Ralph Petersen, CIMSS

1000-1015 Break

1015-1045 Land Summary + discussion Bob Knuteson, CIMSS

1045-1115 Ocean Summary + discussion Nick Nalli, QSS Group Inc.

1115-1145 Clouds/Aerosols Summary + discussion Steve Ackerman, CIMSS

1145-1215 Trace gases + discussion Larrabee Strow, UMBC

1215-1315 Lunch – Location: Pyle Center

Working Groups

1315-1530 Split into Working Groups

land/ocean/atmosphere&clouds/climate/trace gases

What does Hyperspectral add over broadband imagers?

1415-1430 Break

1530-1630 “Report” from each working group

1630-1700 Closing Discussion for Wednesday

Dinner – Location: University Club 803 State Street (5:30 Cash Bar, 6:30 Dinner)

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4^th NOAA Hyperspectral Workshop

Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

Thursday 19 August 2004

0830-0845 Intro/Logistics T. Schmit/A. Heidinger, NOAA NESDIS

System Strategies

0845-0900 HES/ABI synergy T. Schmit, NOAA

0900-0915

0915-0930 Discussion All

Tools

0930-0945 Application Analysis Tools / Mike Griffin MIT/LL

AHABS Demonstration

0945-1000 Next generation McIDAS (V) Tom Whittaker, SSEC

1000-1015 Break

1015-1030 Application Analysis Tools / “HYDRA” Kevin Baggett, CIMSS

1030-1045 VNIR/SWIR compression results Su May Hsu, MIT LL

1045-1100 Compression Techniques: HES IR Sounder B. Huang/CIMSS

1100-1115 Compression Techniques: IR Sounder W. Blackwell/MIT LL

1115-1200 Wrap up/future of Workshop(s) All

1200-1300 Lunch – Location: Pyle Center

End of workshop