Return to Landsat Science Team Meetings
USGS EROS
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
July 7-9, 2015
Meeting Objectives:
- Landsat activities updates and discussion
- Review the status of Landsat Science Team science and applications investigations
Tuesday, July 7
- Introductions and review meeting objectives (T. Loveland, J. Irons)
- NASA and USGS HQ reports (D. Jarrett, T. Newman)
- Sustainable Land Imaging technical activities (J. Masek, J. Nelson)
- Landsat status: Landsat 7-8 operations and archive status (B. Sauer)
- Update on Landsat product improvement plans(B. Sauer, J. Dwyer, R. Morfitt)
- Landsat 8 TIRS stray light investigation status (M. Montanaro)
- Landsat acquisition guidelines discussion (T. Loveland, J. Irons)
- Landsat 7 mission extension discussion (T. Loveland, T. Newman)
- Sentinel-2 mission update (B. Koetz)
- Landsat/Sentinel DIRSIG modeling (A. Gerace)
- NASA-USGS Sentinel-2 Plans (J. Masek, J. Dwyer)
- Landsat Advisory Group (K. Green)
- AmericaView (R. Lawrence)
Wednesday, July 8
- Landsat Science Team presentations
- Leo Lymburner - Mapping continental scale multi-decadal dynamics of inland water quantity and quality using multiple Landsat sensors
- Aaron Gerace - Simultaneous retrieval of waters three primary coloring agents using Landsat 8
- Yongwei Sheng - Finalizing circa-2000 Landsat global lake database and initiating circa-2015 mapping using Landsat-8
- Alan Belward – Mapping global surface water occurrence over three decades
- Ted Scambos - Global ice velocity mapping with Landsat 8
- Joel McCorkel – New laboratory characterization technique for Landsat 9 and intercalibration results for Landsat 8
- David Roy – Thinking about processing steps for generation of combined/compatible Sentinel-2 Landsat-8 products
- Eric Vermote – Landsat’s and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance product: status and prospective
- Dennis Helder – Recent Landsat Calibration Activities
- John Schott – Atmospheric component of the land surface temperature product for North America and preliminary global results
- Crystal Schaaf – North American Landsat Albedo Dynamics
- Dave Johnson – Can Landsat yield crop yields?
- Rick Allen – Progress in Evapotranspiration Retrievals from Google Earth Engine and High Profile Applications of Landsat to Water Issues
- Justin Huntington – Quantifying Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Changes Associated with Water Availability and Management in Arid Environments using the Landsat Archive
- Ayse Kilic – A CONUS-wide, Automated Method for Calibration of one meter NAIP Reflectance with Landsat: An Application to Water Conservation
- Randy Wynne – Clouds, crowds, and high performance computing of subtle forest change using Landsat
- Robert Kennedy and Joe Hughes – Carbon, cover, and clouds: Updates from one corner of the Landsat time-series landscape
- Jeff Masek – NDVI trend analysis for northern North America
Thursday, July 9
- Landsat Science Team presentations
- Martha Anderson - Landsat ET mapping applications over forested landscapes
- Mark Friedl - Using Three Decades of Landsat Data to Characterize Changes and Vulnerability of Temperate and Boreal Forest Phenology to Climate Change
- Warren Cohen - Maximizing the value of the Landsat archive for forest disturbance monitoring
- Patrick Hostert – Mapping deforestation and post-deforestation dynamics in the tropics with Landsat time series
- Mike Wulder - Forest disturbance and recovery from time series Landsat data: What are we talking about?
- Jim Vogelmann – Monitoring gradual ecosystem changes using 30+ years of Landsat observations
- Curtis Woodcock – Landsat 8 and time series analysis
- Zhe Zhu – From CCDC to LCMAP
- EROS Center Landsat and Land Cover Activities (T. Loveland, others)
- Landsat Analysis Ready Data Discussion (B. Sauer)