# Presentation: 154717

## International EOS/NPP Direct Readout MeetingSummary Discussion March 31st – April 4th , 2008Bangkok, Thailand

- International EOS/NPP Direct Readout Meeting_*Summary Discussion*__* *_March 31st – April 4th , 2008Bangkok, Thailand

## Diversity in Direct Readout

**The 2008 meeting featured 41 presentations and 28 posters, with a great diversity of material.  Presentations can be classified roughly as follows:**
**16 Land**
**5 Ocean**
**4 Atmosphere**
**13 Multi-discipline**
**6 Programmatic**
**11 Products and Processing**
**5 Vendor Hardware/Software**
**2 Instrument**

## Awareness

- Awareness continues
- Increase rate of use in DR data for weather monitoring, disaster monitoring, agricultural, economic, public health, etc.
- Increased product distribution (e.g., Web-based tools to accommodate all users, regardless of bandwidth, with added ubiquitous visualization capabilities such as Google Earth)
- Collaboration (data sharing via networks world-wide and focused, discipline-based groups)
- RS Training opportunities by University of Wisconsin

## Knowledge/Data Sharing

- Land Cover/Land-Use Change Program
- Supports regional initiatives like LBA, CARPE, MAIRS, NEESPI
- Potential New Networks (e.g., “Sentinel Latin America” similar to Sentinel Asia?, SERVIR in CA)
- DR Land Steering Committee
- Leverage remote sensing conferences/meetings to develop awareness and solicit participation in ILDRCC
- Develop a schedule of dedicated ILDRCC meetings
- Develop and expand an ILDRCC website as a communication portal for the international DR community
- Begin developing an inventory of existing DR stations, data networks, and land products/applications
- Coordinate with DRL to prioritize and implement land products in IPOPP framework
- Steering Committees for Oceans and Atmospheres Disciplines: following Land Steering Committee model

- DR in Decision-Making

- Fire
- Fire monitoring for the Americas at CONABIO, with data available 20 minutes after overpass, Web-based hot spot map
- Forest fire, hot spot and smoke plume detection in SE Asia by AIT, use of data by responsible government agencies
- Flashover fires in South Africa, data disseminated by TV and other media, and used by government, industry, and public
- Use of Aerosol Optical Thickness by CRISP to monitor air quality following biomass burning
- Fire mapping in Mongolia
- Univ of Wisconsin atmospheric products to the NWS
- Many other examples...

- Commercial Applications
- Oil spill monitoring by CONABIO, data provided to PEMEX; ScanEx provides data for Arctic oil pipeline
- SST and Chlor-a data supplied to commercial fisheries by Tokai U. in Japan, INVAP in Argentina and CWB/MSC in Taiwan
- Sea Ice data from Tokai U. used for navigation by the Japanese Coast Guard; ScanEx Sea Ice data used for navigation in the Kara Sea
- Sri Lanka fish location and inventory forecasting
- Use of water measurements to look at the mosquito population in Thailand, and create models to predict malaria
- Flood potential maps for Kenya; flood mapping & potential in India
- Typhoon prediction and monitoring by CWB/MSC
- Invasive species monitoring
- Real-time weather data from UW, AIRS, SPoRT, CWB/MSC,  CONAE and others used by forecasting agencies

- DR in Decision-Making

## Discussion Pts & Recommendations

- NASA science team members presented an approach for burned scar area product that provides comparable results over the global algorithm while yielding less complex implementation and higher processing efficiency for Direct Readout
- Inclusion of Canopy Water Content, Flood Mapping & Water Budget algorithm for the DR Land Steering Committee evaluation
- Establish an International Virtual DB Data Meeting
- Enable satellite data, In-situ/Validation/Ground-Truth data and product sharing
- Addressing feasibility and process of research algorithm/product to operational use
- Creation of a Special Issue of the Asian Journal of Geoinfomatics – Ten papers from this meeting

## Terra/Aqua DB Sites

- Please go to the DRL Web Portal at _[http://](http://directreadout.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/)__[directreadout.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov](http://directreadout.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/)_and use the Contact Us mechanism to submit information about Direct Broadcast sites that are not currently on the map.

## Thank you 
Asian Institute of Technology

- Asian Institute of Technology