Goddard: Day 5 Agenda (Friday, July 23, 2010)

6:00 AM to 7:30 AM (Breakfast)

• Breakfast at the hotel
  

7:30 AM to 8:00 AM

• Meet in hotel lobby
• Travel together by bus to Goddard

8:00 AM to 9:15 AM

• Download data and resources:
  • Activity: Quantifying Changes in the Land (Zip Archive 3MB Jul22 10)
  • Movie: Landsat Band Combination (Quicktime Video 7.8MB Jul22 10)
  • Landsat Resource Documents (Zip Archive 25.5MB Jul22 10)
  • Landsat Scene Images (to be passed around for download from memory stick)
• Eric Brown de Colstoun: What's Up with that Pixel? Mapping a pixel using GLOBE protocols
• Dr. Eric Brown de Colstoun's Presentation (PowerPoint 84.1MB Jul23 10)

9:15 AM to 9:30 AM

• Eric Brown de Colstoun: Our mapped pixel from space – in a Landsat image. What it means and how it links to wider issues

9:30 AM to 9:45 AM

• Jeannie Allen: Review of the electromagnetic spectrum; Role of spectral signatures in remote sensing

9:45 AM to 10:00 AM (Break)

• Coffee, tea, and a light snack

10:00 AM to 10:15 AM

• Anita Davis: Using infrared wavelength observations for understanding changes in vegetation over time

10:15 AM to 10:30 AM

• Jeannie Allen:
  • Questions scientists ask using Landsat; What people do with Landsat
  • Resources for teaching about Landsat images

10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

• Monitoring land use change with Landsat and ImageJ

11:30 AM to 12:30 PM (Lunch)

• Lunch catered

12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

• Field trip to Building 28 (Visualizations) in 2 groups
  
  • NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Hyperwall and Supercomputing System (Phil Webster)
  • Scientific Visualization Studio (Greg Shirah)
    

2:30 PM to 2:45 PM (Break)

• Coffee, tea, and a light snack

2:45 PM to 4:00 PM

• More analysis techniques

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (Travel + Break)

• Travel back to hotel
• Break time before dinner
  

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (Dinner)

• Buffet dinner at the hotel

7:00 PM to ??? (Free Time)

• Evening Activity: Have fun!