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