2002 EOC Annual Science Meeting

Time	Speaker	Presentation title
0900	-	Coffee, Politics & Technical issues
0930	David Jupp	Welcome. Latest COSSA/EOC news & plans.
1000	Ross Mitchell	Task 3.2: Validation of Aerosol Retrievals over the Australian Continent
1030	Ian Barton	Task 2.2: SST Validation
	Morning tea
1045	Ian Barton	MODIS DB, AQUA and the upcoming MODIS Meeting
1130	Ian Grant	Task 3.3: BRDF of typical Australian land cover types
1200	Peter Turner	Integrating Remote Sensing Data Products into Numerical Models of the Environment
1230	Lunch
1330	Jenny Lovell, Peter Turner	CAPS - status and futures
1400	Edward King	Product presentation - from grist to bread
1430	Tim McVicar	AVHRR applications - the future?
1500	Peter Turner	An Australian Advanced Geostationary Satellite A vision for a space-based initiative of national significance
1530	Mike Raupach	Model-Data Fusion in Earth Observation
1550	Chair: Dean Graetz	Discussion on environmental satellite data - past, present and future needs, directions & opportunities (Minutes as taken by Susan Campbell)

Wednesday 28 August: Task reports continue

Time	Speaker	Presentation title
0845	David Jupp	Plans for Day 2 - Special Sessions
0900	Bisun Datt	The Hyperspectral Task Report
0920	EO-1 Session Chair DLBJ	Nicholas Coops: Predicting Eucalypt Biochemistry from HYPERION and HYMAP Imagery. Tim McVicar: Coleambally Irrigation Area (CIA) and EO-1 A Time Series Agricultural and Cal-Val Site Vittorio Brando: Satellite hyperspectral remote sensing for estimating estuarine and coastal water quality Alex Held: Tumbarumba Reflectance Dynamics Study Vanessa Chewings: Characterisation of vegetation components in the Australian arid zone using EO-1 Hyperion imagery Melissa Quigley: (not yet available) Melissa Quigley (on behalf of Tom Cudahy): Hyperion Mineral Mapping results: Panorama Melissa Quigley (on behalf of Tom Cudahy): Assessment of the stability of the Hyperion SWIR module for hyperspectral mineral mapping using multi-date images of Mount Fitton.
1230	Lunch
1330	Jenny Lovell, Nicholas Coops, Darius Culvenor	CSIRO Canopy Lidar Initiative
1400	Peter Caccetta	The AGO Landcover Project – Lessons and outcomes
1430	Kadija Oubelkheir	An introduction
1445	Arnold Dekker & Vittorio Brando	Water quality and optical remote sensing work & progress General discussion Using Hyperion to map coral reef benthic substrates (Tiit Kutser)
1530	Greg Ayers	Clouds, Aerosols & Climate – what can EO deliver?
1600	Cheryllann Biegler	Commercialisation opportunities in Earth Observation (ARIES-Info Commercialisation)
1630	Greg Ayers	EOC operations, structure and functions (Future planning delayed)
1700	Greg Ayers Mike Raupach	Meeting wrap-up