JACIE 2018 Presentations

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Monday September 17, 2018

Greg Stensaas, USGS — Welcoming & Opening Remarks

Session 1: 9:15-10:30 am, Moderator: Greg Stensaas, USGS

• Esad Micijevic, SGT Inc — Radiometric Consistency of Landsat Collection 1 Products
• Dymitry Varlyguin, GDA — Assessment of the Surface Reflectance Calibration of PlanetScope 2 Imagery
• Robert Ryan, I2R  — Vicarious Ground-based Articial Light Source Radiometric Calibration of the VIIRS Day-Night High Gain Stage: Early Results

Session 2: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Moderator: Raad Saleh, USGS

• Raad Saleh, USGS — Towards Best Practices and Standard Procedures in Support of Comprehensive Quality Assurance of Remote Sensing Data and Derived Products
• Esad Micijevic, SGT Inc. — Radiometric Comparison of Sentinel 2A, Sentinel2B and Landsat 8:  Lifetime Trending, Cross Calibration and Absolute Calibration Assessment over Libya 4 PICS
• Michele Keuster, DigitalGlobe — Results from DigitalGlobe’s participation in the Inter-Agency Campaign at Railroad Valley in May 2018

Session 3: 1:00-3:00 pm, Moderator Dave Case, NGA

• Rasmus Houberg, SDSU/Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence —CubeSat, Sentinel-2, Landsat 8, and MODIS data fusion for enhanced land surface characterization
• Ignacio Zuleta, Planet — Planet’s Imaging Roadmap and SuperDove Imaging Product + ECCOE Panel
• Josh Greenberg, Planet — Cross-calibration of Planet Satellites
• Ajit Sampath, SGT Inc. — USGS/JACIE Satellite Sensor Characterization Methods
• Dave Case, NGA, — Overview of The Reflectance-based Calibration Uncertainty Evaluation Field Campaign

Session 4: 3:15- 4:45 pm, Moderator Kurt Thome, NASA

• Brian Wenny, NASA —RadCalNet: Ensuring consistent data quality across multiple ground sites of an operational radiometric calibration network
• Kurt Thome, NASA — Reflectance intercomparisons at a RadCalNet site for training and traceability
• Lisa Haskell, Airbus — Harmonious Quality Management within the Copernicus Programme
• Amit Angal, SSAI — Intercomparison of the MODIS instruments using RadCalNet

Tuesday September 18, 2018

Session 5: 8:45-11:00 am

Government Panel: “Operating in a World of Multiple Data Sources”, Moderator Greg Stensaas, USGS

• Tim Newman, USGS
• Dr. Steven Volz, Director of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service
• Greg Black, NGA, Director eGEOINT Management Office
• Sandra Alba Cauffman, Science Division Deputy Director-NASA
• Glenn Bethel, USDA, Remote Sensing Advisor

POSTER Session & Lunch 11:00 am-1:00 pm 

Session 6: 1:00-3:00 pm

Commercial Panel: “Visions for a Future Commercial and Government Remote Sensing”, Moderator Jon Christopherson, SGT Inc.

• Robbie Schingler, Planet, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder
• Steve Wood, DigitalGlobe, Senior Director
• Mike Warren, Descartes Labs, CTO & Co-Founder
• Chris Biddy, Astro Digital, CEO & Co-Founder

Session 7:  3:15-4:45 pm, Moderator Curt Reynolds, USDA

• Shawana Johnson, Global Marketing Insights, Inc — Global At-Scale Interoperable Commercial Imagery Analytics Powers Convergence of Evidence Methodologies: Utilizing MODIS, Landsat, Sentinel, and Commercial New Space Providers and Weather Data
• DongHan Lee, Director of Image Data System Development Division in KARI — Analysis on Refinement of On-orbit MTF Estimation Edge Target
• Brad Doorn, NASA — The NASA Commercial Data Purchase

Wednesday September 19, 2018

Session 8:   8:30-10:00 am, Moderator Curt Reynolds, USDA

• Qassim Abdullah, Woolpert — The State of Commercial Aerial Sensors Technologies and the Geospatial Industry
• Mary Pagnutti, Innovative Imaging and Research Corp. — sUAS Camera Calibration for Remote Sensing
• Keith Beckett, Planet — Cloud Detection for the Planet Dove and SkySat Constellations
• Jack Ickes, Teledyne Brown Engineering — The DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer-Status and Calibration Update

Session 9:  10:30-12:00 pm, Moderator Kurt Thome, NASA

• Minsu Kim, SGT Inc — The Mitigation strategy for the atmospheric correction of Landsat OLI data
• Dmitry Varlyguin, GDA Corp — Analysis Ready, Frequent 10m Composites for Global Crop Monitoring
• Medhavy Thankappan, Geoscience Australia — Validation and interoperability of continental-scale surface reflectance from multiple sensors
• Jeff Czapala-Myers, University of Arizona, — Directional reflectance analysis of Railroad Valley, Nevada

Session 10:  1:00-2:45 pm, Moderator Dave Case, NGA

• Andreas Brunn, Planet — Radiometric correction and absolute calibration of the SkySat constellation
• François Smith, Radiant Solutions — Impact of Atmospheric and Topography Compensation on Change Detection
• David Mulawa, DigitalGlobe Inc —  Geolocation Accuracy Performance of the DigitalGlobe Constellation During 2017
• Denis Mutiibwa, ASRC Federal  — Multi-Sensor Cross-Comparison of Landsat 8, DMC and Resourcesat-2-III for use in Agricultural Monitoring
• Jorge Gil, Deimos Imaging — Data Harmonization Methodology Based on Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses

Session 11: 3:15-4:45 pm, Moderator Jon Christopherson, SGT, Inc.

• Byron Smiley, Planet — Long Term Geometric Stability of the SkySat Constellation
• Chris Peterson, Radiant Solutions — Evaluation and Comparison of Global DSMs
• Juan-Fernando Rodrigo, Deimos Imaging — A case study of a heterogeneous constellation: the PanGeo Alliance and beyond for the Copernicus program
• Tina Ochoa, DigitalGlobe — Empirical Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function Model for Absolute Radiometric Calibration Sites