Lamont Hall, at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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9:30: Breakfast

9:30 – 9:45: Introduction, Bob Chen, Deputy Director, CIESIN, and Manager, SEDAC

9:45 – 10:00: Workshop Goals, Francesca Pozzi, Research Associate, CIESIN

10:00 – 10:30: Remote Sensing Overview, Chris Small, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, co-Project Scientist, SEDAC

10:30 – 12:30: Demonstration and discussion of prototype derived products:

1. (10:30-11:30) Land cover classification: how can this be tailored to users’ needs, which classes are useful to identify, potential applications
2. (11:30-12:30) Vegetation Fraction Index and Vegetation Change Detection: uses and applications

12:30 – 1:15: Lunch (catered)

1:15 – 2:00: Discussion on users’ needs:

• Other possible applications (emergency management, flood mapping etc)
• Scale
• Timing: what is required to make imagery and associated data valuable to users?
• Other relevant datasets and their integration with remotely sensed data
• Issues of privacy and sensitive information

2:00 – 2:30: Discussion: Mechanisms for data sharing.

2:30 – 2:45: Break and change location (to Geoscience)

2:45 – 4:30: Hands On: Visit to Remote Sensing and Visual Lab and discussion of the images and the prototype derived products in more details.

• Discussion of other satellite products (IKONOS).
• Break up into smaller working groups

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