Objective
To bring together producers of continental- to global-scale land surface phenology products derived satellite data; as well as those collecting field, tower, or airborne data useful for validating those products, to develop an international protocol to quantify the accuracy of these products and initiate a validation-based inter-comparison.

Agenda

Background:
  8:30 −  8:40     Welcome (Alison Donnelly, Ned Dwyer)
  8:40 −  8:55     Update on LPV activities (Joanne Nightingale)
  8:55 −  9:10     Charge to meeting (Jeff Morisette)

Overview of global and regional efforts:
  9:10 −   9:30     Approach for validation of Geoland2 products: phenological vegetation trends over Europe (R. Lacaze)
  9:30 −   9:50    PHenology And Vegetation EO Service (PHAVEOS) (Thomas Lankester)
  9:50 − 10:10    US phenology products (J. Brown, with contributions from X. Zhang, R. Wolfe, C. Schaaf, J. Nightingale,
  J. Nickeson, J. Morisette, B. Hargrove, M. Friedl, K. Didan)
10:10 – 10:30    Coffee Break
10:30 − 10:50    MERIS-based phenology products (Nadine Gobron)

In situ networks and measurements
 10:50 − 11:10    PhenoCam: Monitoring vegetation phenology with networked digital cameras (Andrew Richardson)
 11:10 − 11:30    Phenological Eyes Network (PEN) (Shin Nagai)

Break
 11:30 − 12:30    Lunch

In situ networks and measurements (cont'd)
 12:40 − 1:00      USA-National Phenology Network (Jake Weltzin and Mark Schwartz)
   1:00 − 1:20      European Phenology Networks (Annette Menzel, This Rutishauser, Elisabeth Koch)
   1:20 − 1:40      CarboEurope and IMECC (Mike Jones)
   1:40 − 2:00      PAR@METER (Fred Baret)

   2:00 − 2:30    Break

Discussion

•   Nomination of LPV Phenology focus group co-chair
•   Development of Phenology product “applications” matrix
•   Validation vs product assessment of spatial and temporal patterns
•   Meshing field – satellite and scaling issues
•   Utility of citizen science for product assessment
•   Potential product inter-comparison, potential sites, methods, coordination and data sharing
•   Meeting publication and writing tasks
•   Sources for funding or other resources to conduct a validation based inter-comparison
•   Potential date/scientific meeting for next LPV phenology focus group workshop