JSC: Day 4 Agenda (Thursday, June 24, 2010)

6:30 AM to 7:45 AM (Breakfast)

• Breakfast at hotel

7:45 AM to 8:00 AM (Travel)

• Meet in hotel lobby
• Travel together by bus to Johnson Space Center

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

• How to create a KMZ file from a .csv file
• Earth Point - A multi-platform cvs to kml converter.
• GPS Visualizer - A free web-based converter. You can use this to convert cvs and xml files to kml files.
• AFF Mapper used for shape file to KML
• Quantum GIS - A multi-platform shape file to kml converter
• In reverse! - Zonums online kml to shapefile converter - Turn kml files into shape files for use in your GIS software

9:00 AM to 9:45 AM

• Alex Cuclis, Research Scientist: Remote Sensing of Volatile Organic Compounds
• Alex Cuclis Presentation (PowerPoint 9.1MB Jun24 10)
• Remote Sensing Presentation (PowerPoint 4.7MB Jun24 10)

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

• Coffee, tea, and a light snack

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

• Dr. Barry Lefer, University of Houston: Air pollution/Google Earth
• Barrys powerpoint, movies and links (Zip Archive 94.6MB Jun25 10)

11:30 AM to 1:00 PM (Lunch)

• Lunch catered

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

• Querying LandUse; gathering statistics, digitizing image data to create a shpaefile (e.g. landuse)
• Phoenix Resources for student investigations (Zip Archive 57.8MB Jun24 10)

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

• Coffee, tea, and a light snack

2:45 PM to 4:00 PM

• Discussion of Student Research; Ambassador group meetings

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 8:30 PM (Open Lab)

• Open Lab: Find out about new tools, data, and analysis techniques; Prepare for Ambassador Sessions