Day 1, April 30th

Session I: Setting the Stage

Everett Hinkley, National Remote Sensing Program Manager/ USDA Forest Service Welcome,  Introductions. Objectives, Goals

Session II: Overview of USDA Forest Service Management Goals and Information Needs Building a bridge between NASA technology and natural resource management decision-makers Presenting: Cynthia West, Executive Director Office of Sustainability and Climate/ USDA Forest Service

USDA Forest Service information needs

Soil moisture and hydrology Presenting: Raha Hakimdavar, USDA Forest Service

Vegetation structure and function Presenting: Carlos Ramirez, Vegetation Mapping and Inventory Group Leader/ USDA Forest Service 
Emissions and flux Presenting: Grant Domke, CMS Principal Investigator/ USDA Forest Service
Early warning systems Presenting: Danny Lee, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center
Data and tools (knowledge synthesis) Presenting: Kevin Megown, Resource, Mapping, Inventory and Monitoring Program Lead, GTAC

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Session III: Overview of NASA’s Missions/Projects and Product Functionalities 

SMAP mission overview/ SMAP data products and applications overview Presenting Dara Entekhabi, SMAP Science Definition Team Lead/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

NISAR mission overview and products Presenting: Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology  Part 1     Part 2    Part 3

NISAR Applications Presenting: E. Natasha Stavros, NISAR Deputy Program Applications (DPA)  Co-Lead/ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 

ICESat-2 mission overview Presenting: Tom Neumann, ICESat-2 Project Scientist/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

ICESat-2 data products and applications overview Presenting: Amy Neuenschwander, ICESat-2 Science Definition Team Member for Vegetation/ University of Texas at Austin 

GEDI mission overview Presenting: Ralph Dubayah, GEDI Principal Investigator/ University of Maryland 

 

CMS initiative overview Presenting: George Hurtt, CMS Science Team Leader/ University of Maryland

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CMS data products and applications overview Presenting: Edil Sepulveda Carlo, CMS Applications Coordinator/ NASA GSFC/SSAI

 

Break Out Exercises Round 1: Tools 

 

Break out room 1:

The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS)-  Paul Moth, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

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ORNL DAAC’s Soil Moisture Visualizer (SMV) -Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

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Break out room 2:

OpenAltimetry —Amy FitzGerrell, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

 

HyP3 — Heidi Kristenson, Alaska Satellite Facility NASA Distributed Active Archive Center  (DAAC)

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Day 2, May 1st

 

Session IV: Applications of NASA Data for Natural Resource Management

SMAP soil moisture for drought monitoring and early warning Presenting: Dara Entekhabi SMAP Science Definition Team Lead/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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SMAP soil moisture across different vegetation types and SMAPVEX 19 Presenting: Andreas Colliander, SMAP Science Team Member/ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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SMAP soil moisture for USDA Forest Service Rangeland Monitoring System Presenting: Matt Reeves, USDA Forest Service

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Operational wildland fuels assessments/mapping Presenting: Birgit Peterson, USGS EROS

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Growth, removals, and management intensity Presenting: Randolph Wynne, Virginia Tech

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The operational use of remote sensing data products in the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program Presenting: Andrew Lister, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station

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Overview of a joint USFS-NASA partnership to estimate forest carbon stocks in interior Alaska by integrating field, airborne and satellite data  Presenting: Hans-Erik Andersen, CMS Co-Investigator/ USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station  Part 1                      Part 2

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OBI-WAN: Piloting a GEDI-based Forest Carbon Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification tool Presenting: Sean Healey, CMS Principal Investigator & GEDI Science Definition Team/USDA Forest Service

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NASA Disasters Mapping Portal Presenting: Jeremy Kirkendall, NASA HQ Applied Science’s Program

 

Session V: Breakout Panels to Discuss USDA Forest Service Information Needs, Gaps, and Plans to Close the Gaps

Session title: Opportunities and Challenges around Forest Soil Moisture Information

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Opening presentation—Dara Entekhabi, SMAP Science Definition Team Lead/Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Ann Arbor Forest Soil Moisture Workshop Report-out—Liza Jenkins, Michigan Tech Research Institute

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Forest Soil Moisture, Forest Health, and Wildfire —Jeff Bruggink, USDA Forest Service Regional Soils and BAER Program Manager

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Forest Soil Moisture Mapping/ Data Applications in the Forest Service— Cynthia West, Executive Director Office of Sustainability and Climate/ USDA Forest Service

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Break out room 1—Web interface data access

NASA Earthdata Search —Paul Moth, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

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NASA Worldview —Paul Moth, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

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VERTEX—Heidi Kristenson, Alaska Satellite Facility NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

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Day 3, May 2nd

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Break Out Exercises Round 3: Scenario-Based Data Processing and Analysis

Breakout room 1: What is the trend in soil moisture? How does this compare to regional trends?        

Analysis in ArcGIS —Paul Moth, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) ·       

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Analysis in Python —Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications —Heidi Kristenson, Alaska Satellite Facility NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) ·       

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Cloud Analysis using PODPAC —Marc Shapiro, Creare LLC

 

Summation of Workshop Presenting: Everett Hinkley, National Remote Sensing Program Manager/ USDA Forest Service