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LPV Special Sessions

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 (1st conference day)
14:00-15:45 Albedo special session (I) 
16:00-18:00 Albedo special session (II)

Thursday, March 19, 2009 (2nd conference day)
12:45-14:00 Townhall meeting on LPV 

A special session on Albedo will be held under the auspices of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellite (CEOS) Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) Land Product Validation (LPV) Subgroup WGCV/LPV on Tuesday 18 March 2009 as part of the International Conference on Land Surface Radiation and Energy Budgets: Observations, Modeling, and Analysis, Beijing, China, March 18-20, 2009.

14:00-15:45 Albedo special session (I) (Chair: Dr. G. Schaepman)

The session will feature two invited talks:

Growing Non-Linearity in Arctic Sea Ice Loss
Dr. Julienne Stroeve  (NSIDC)

Characterization of albedos of complex land systems from a climate modeler's viewpoint and how their measurement can be used to constrain structural details of a model
Dr. Robert Dickinson (University of Texas, Austin)

14:45-15:00	Dr. Yves Govaerts	Estimation of Surface Albedo Increase During the Eighties Sahel Drought from Meteosat Observations	EUMETSAT, Germany
15:00-15:15	Dr. Shusen Wang	Simulation of canopy radiation transfer and surface albedo in the EALCO model	Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada
15:15-15:30	Dr. Fernando Camacho	Towards an Operational Production of Surface Albedo in the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service	EOLAB, Valencia , Spain
15:30-15:45	Dr. Jean-Louis Roujean	Validation of POLDER surface BRDF and albedo products based on a review of other satellites, ground and climate databases	CNRM/Météo-France, France

16:00-18:00 Albedo special session (II) (Chair: Dr. C. Schaaf)

16:00-16:15	Dr. Crystal L. Schaaf	The MODIS Reflectance Anisotropy and Albedo Product: Applications and Enhancements	Boston University, USA
16:15-16:30	Prof. Jan-Peter Muller	ALBEDOMAP: MERIS land surface albedo retrieval using data fusion with MODIS BRDF and its validation using contemporaneous EO and in situ data products	University College London , UK
16:30-16:45	Dr. Dominique Carrer	Land Surface Albedo from MSG Geostationary Satellite: method for retrieval, validation, and application for weather forecast	Météo-France, CNRM/GAME, France
16:45-17:00	Dr. Fuqin Li	An Evaluation of the Use of Atmospheric and BRDF Correction to Standardise Landsat Data	Geoscience Australia, Australia
17:00-17:15	Dr. Philip Lewis	BRF/albedo inversion constrained by temporal smoothness	University College London , UK
17:15-17:30	Sihan Liu	The New Angular & Spectral Kernel Model for BRDF and Albedo Retrieval	State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science , China
17:30-17:45	Dr. Yi Luo	An approach for developing surface albedo product from seven MODIS land bands at 250m spatial resolution over Canada and the Arctic circumpolar region	Natural Resources Canada, Canada

 

A further townhall meeting focused explicitly on Land Product Validation (LPV) will be held on 19 March, 2008 and will be facilitated by Dr. Frederic Baret (INRA), current LPV chair.

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