News:
	The Third Asia Pacific Environmental Innovation Strategy (APEIS) Capacity Building Workshop was held in Singapore, December 9-10 2004. David Jupp represented Australian interests and his presentation is available here: Recent Australian Developments in MODIS and Other Activities for Integrated Environmental Monitoring. See also: Meeting report
	EOC/NASA Modis MOU Towards setting up a closer relationship between CSIRO/COSSA/EOC and NASA in regard to Modis and other Terra/Aqua products, a list of users and projects in the wider EOC community was gathered. The list is available here (Word doc; CSIRO only).
	Australian MODIS community mail archive established: http://www.eoc.csiro.au/archives/ausmodis/ (Password required)

Docs:
	Some Basic Information on MODIS DB in Australia Shanti Reddy (ACRES) & Dr Ian Grant (BOM)

Presentations:
	Recent Australian Developments in MODIS and Other Activities for Integrated Environmental Monitoring David Jupp, CSIRO Earth Observation Centre, Dec 2004
	During a recent visit to Australia, Dr Alan Strahler and Dr Curtis Woodcock of Boston University made the following presentations. Abstracts are also available. Due to the file size, we recommend downloading the files rather than viewing online. Blank slides occur where links to movies were removed.
	Land Cover, Phenology, Leaf-Area Index, PAR Fraction Absorption and Bidirectional Reflectance/Vegetation Structure from MODIS for Terrestrial Carbon Modelling Presented by Alan Strahler, Boston University, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Melbourne 22 October 2003 Abstract
	The MODIS BRDF/Albedo Product: Global Bidirectional Reflectance, Land Surface Albedo, and Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance Presented by Alan Strahler, Boston University Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne 21 October 2003 Abstract
	Monitoring Forest Change with Remote Sensing Presented by Curtis Woodcock, Boston University (Dept of Geography and Center for Remote Sensing) Forestry & Forest Products, Canberra 17 October 2003 Abstract
	An Overview of MODIS Land Science Products Presented by Alan Strahler, Boston University CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra 14 October 2003 Abstract

Meetings: presentations & reports
	Australian MODIS DB Meeting November 15-17, 2005 Geoscience Australia Canberra, ACT Presentations
	International DB Meeting October 3-6 2005 Mediterranean Agency for Remote Sensing and Environmental Control Benevento, Italy DVD of meeting Materials and Presentations
	Recent Australian Developments in MODIS and Other Activities for Integrated Environmental Monitoring Presented by David Jupp at: Asia Pacific Environmental Innovation Strategy (APEIS) Capacity Building Workshop December 9-10 2004 Singapore Meeting report [word document]
	MODIS Data Processing Meeting May 11-12 2004 Hobart, Tas (Australia)
	Second APEIS Capacity Building Workshop on Integrated Environmental Monitoring of the Asia-Pacific Region 27-28 November 2003 Sydney, Australia [Note: Some presentations are incomplete because of the translation to PDF]
	An International EOS Direct Broadcast meeting was held in Hawaii, November 17-20, 2003. "EOS Direct Broadcast Software and Systems for the Generation of Products from the Satellite Data". More information at: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/eosdb/#news under "Meetings"
	Report on the Third MODIS Workshop Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology 1 May 2003 [Download word version: MODIS_Workshop_Report_V1.6.doc]
	Second Meeting of the Research Coordination Committee (RCC) of the Asia-Pacific Environmental Innovation Strategy (APEIS) Project Bangkok, Thailand March 30-31, 2003. An update on MODIS DB Acquisition, Processing and Applications in Australia presented by David L B Jupp Meeting Report by David L B Jupp
	Practical Applications of MODIS Data in Australia (workshop) November 26-29, 2002 Leeuwin Centre, Floreat WA (Documents downloaded from WASTAC site)
	APEIS Capacity Building Workshop on Integrated Environmental Monitoring of the Asia-Pacific Region 20-21 September 2002 Beijing, China
	NASA’s Earth Observing System: Assets and Access This collection was presented by Marc Imhoff at the 11th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Association Conference September 2 – 6, 2002 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
	An Australian MODIS Meeting 29-30 August 2002 CSIRO COSSA/EOC Canberra ACT
	MODIS Direct Broadcast Meeting 7-9 December 1998 Canberra, Australia

Links:
	MODIS home page: see also:	http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/related/index.html
	ACRES (Geoscience Australia)	http://www.auslig.gov.au/acres/prod_ser/modisdata.htm
	Bureau of Meteorology	http://www.bom.gov.au
	WASTAC	http://www.wastac.wa.gov.au/ Includes access to the presentations (.ppt), associated documents (.doc) and photos from Liam Gumley's MODIS workshop held in Nov 2002 .
	TERSS (Hobart)	http://www.terss.org.au/ TERSS is Australia's second earth reources satellite ground station. It is jointly administered by a board comprising several major Australian organisations.
	CSIRO Marine (Hobart)	http://www.marine.csiro.au/~lband/MODIS/ Remote Sensing Project: MODIS Products and Services
	Sentinel	http://www.sentinel.csiro.au/index.html The Sentinel Fire Mapping website is an internet-based mapping tool designed to provide timely fire location data to emergency service managers across Australia. The system uses Terra data obtained via the ACRES Data Acquisition Facility in Alice Springs.
	Australian MODIS community mail archive	http://www.eoc.csiro.au/archives/ausmodis/ (Password required)
	Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (Steven W Running)	http://www.forestry.umt.edu/ntsg/ The mission of NTSG is: "To develop capabilities to quantitatively describe the structure and function of ecosystems, from regional to global scales, using emerging technologies in satellites, geographic information systems, computer simulation and visualization, and biophysical theory."
	Global Imaging	http://www.globalimaging.com/ Global Imaging sells MODIS processing developed by NASA science teams.

Tools:

MODIS Bandpass functions (zip) (provided by DLB Jupp) The above file includes these (and more): MODIS ProtoFlight Model (PFM) Relative Spectral Response (RSR) Readme File RSR Correction Approach Spectral Response curves Central Wavelengths and Bandwidths David has also set up an ENVI spectral library for the average bandpasses that are in the range [350,2500] nm, which users may find easier than those above. The bandpasses are sampled to the range 350-2500 nm at 1 nm steps and there are Bands 1-19 and Band 26 in the file. Download the zip file: Modis_20_Lib.zip

Images:
	MODIS animations and images provided by Geoscience Australia: Global composite 3D Globe Deploying the solar panel TERRA orbit
	Images collected from the NASA GSFC website: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/gallery/ Cape York August 21, 2000 Western Australia July 28, 2000 South-eastern Australia. April 26, 2001 Composite image August 30-31, 2000