An international workshop on the validation of
satellite-based land surface phenology products
A workshop of the
Committee on Earth Observing Satellites: Land Product Validation subgroup
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 18 June 2010
Sponsored by:
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland,
US Geological Survey, and
USA National Phenology Network
Background:
The mission of the CEOS Land Product Validation subgroup is “To foster quantitative validation of higher-level global land products derived from remote sensing data and to relay results so they are relevant to users”.
Objectives:
To bring together producers of continental- to global-scale land surface phenology products derived satellite data; as well as those collecting field, tower, or airborne data useful for validating those products, to develop an international protocol to quantify the accuracy of these products and initiate a validation-based inter-comparison.
Proposed Agenda (NOTE: proposed speakers in red are invited but not yet confirmed)
Background:
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome (Alison Donnelly, Ned Dwyer)
8:45 – 9:10 Update on LPV activities and the LPV protocol template (Fred Baret and Joanne Nightingale)
9:10 – 9:20 Charge to meeting (Jeff Morisette)
Overview of global and regional efforts:
9:20 – 9:40 Geoland 2 (Roselyne Lacaze)
9:40- 10:00 CSIR Phenology (Konrad Wessels)
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee break
10:20 – 10:40 AVHRR-based products for North America (Brad Reed and Xiaoyang Zhang)
10:40 – 11:00 MODIS phenology products (contributions from Jeff Morisette, Chrystal Schaaf, Mark Friedl, Bill Hargrove)
11:00 – 11:20 MERIS-based phenology products (Nadine Gobron)
Break
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
In-situ networks and measurements
12:40 – 1:00 USA-National Phenology Network (Jake Weltzin and Mark Schwartz)
1:00 – 1:20 European Phenology Networks (This Rutishauser)
1:20 – 1:40 CarboEurope and IMECC (Mike Jones)
1:40 – 2:00 Web-cams (Andrew Richardson)
2:00 – 2:20 PAR@METER (Fred Baret)
2:20 – 2:40 Phenological Eyes Network (PEN) (Kenlo Nishida)
Break, then Discussion:
Potential data sharing or other coordination activities
Writing assignments for a validation protocol
Sources for funding or other resources to conduct a validation based inter-comparison