Dear Colleague,

We would like to bring your attention to the NASA sponsored Workshop for Remote Sensing of Coastal and Inland Waters being held June 20-22, 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/meetings/ciw/

The workshop will focus on parameters that can be remotely sensed that lend insight to how coastal and inland aquatic systems are changing on seasonal and interannual timescales related to climate induced environmental change and direct human impact.  The scope will be limited to products that can be derived from visible spectral reflectance (i.e. aquatic color) and infrared emissivity (i.e. surface temperature) and the science considerations surrounding these products.  The workshop aims to summarize the current state of remote sensing in these complex waters, identify gaps in knowledge and data needs, identify priorities and provide a framework for near- and long-term science goals for remote sensing relevant to the quantification of environmental change in coastal and inland water bodies.  The workshop will cover topics including: products that are currently able to be retrieved, algorithm refinement and development for improved and desired products, spectral/spatial/temporal limitations and needs, relationships between optical and biogeochemical properties, atmospheric correction, uncertainty considerations, in situ data availability and needs, and planning for full utilization of forthcoming sensors with improved spatial, spectral and temporal resolution.  Specifically the workshop will aim to address the following research questions: (1) What products can be retrieved in coastal and inland water bodies and what are the associated uncertainties with these products across many environmental conditions? (2) Do current atmospheric correction and bio-optical inversion schemes work adequately in coastal and inland regions? (3) What variability or deviation is observed in the relationships of optical and biogeochemical properties from those that have been established for the continental shelf or open ocean water? (4) What scales of variability (spatial and temporal) are able and not able to be captured with current and planned satellite missions?

If you are interested in attending and contributing to the workshop, please fill out of the pre-registration form at the website below by April 9, 2012.  Please note that participation is open but travel support is limited.  Please indicate on the pre-registration form if travel support is required for your participation.  The workshop planning committee will convene mid-April to review the interested participants and determine who we will be able to extend travel support to based on the participants research expertise, geographic representation and ability to contribute to a review/synthesis talk.  While the workshop is primarily an U.S. effort, we will consider an international perspective as well.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/meetings/ciw/register.html

Thank you for your interest.  We hope to see you in Madison, WI this June!

Regards,
Colleen Mouw, University of Wisconsin-Madison (co-chair)
Steven Greb, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (co-chair)
Paul DiGiacomo, NOAA NESDIS 
Simon Hook, NASA JPL
Chuanmin Hu, University of South Florida
ZhongPing Lee, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Ru Morrison, University of New Hampshire

 

Dr. Colleen Mouw
Assistant Researcher
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
Space Science and Engineering Center
1225 W. Dayton Street, Room 1515
Madison, WI  53706
(608) 263-1787

colleen.mouw@ssec.wisc.edu
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~cmouw