4^th NOAA Hyperspectral Workshop

August 17-19, 2004, Madison WI

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 and sounding T. Schmit, NOAA NESDIS

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

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

1400-1415 RT of clouds T. Greenwald, CIMSS

1445-1515 Vis/NearIR RT Mike Griffin MIT/LL & A. Heidinger, NOAA NESDIS

(movie)

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 (movies)

Instrument Options

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

0845-0900 Grating Richard Baron, JPL

0900-0915 Interferometer Hank Revercomb, SSEC

Applications (Continued from Tuesday)

0930-1000 NWP + discussion Ralph Petersen, CIMSS

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

1315-1530 Split into Working Groups: Land&ocean Atmosphere&clouds Climate&trace gases

What does Hyperspectral add over broadband imagers?

System Strategies

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

Tools

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

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

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

End of workshop