PODAG.28PODAG.28October 14-15, 2009October 14-15, 2009

Ron Weaver

NSIDC DAAC Managerhttp://extranet.nsidc.org/nasa/daac/podag/28/index.html

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• Budget/Fiscal Report• User Report• Data Set Report• EOS/ECS Topics• Non-EOS/ECS Topics• New Initiatives• PoDAG Housekeeping

PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009

User MetricsSeparate presentation to be posted

Arapahoe Glacier, Boulder County, September 19, 2009

PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009

Data Set Report:(Data related items of interest since last meeting, other than routine

operations. ) MODIS, AMSR-E, AMSR-J, GLAS

o Terra passed 10 year mark

o Operations generally routineo Update presentations on website

Passive Microwave processing o F13 to F17 transitiono Update presentation on website

AMSR-E validation data sets and documentation AVDM team has essentially removed data set ingest backlog Update presentation on website

Operation IceBridge planned data managemento Report on website, discussion later in meeting

PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009

Science-Data Liaison

Candidate data sets for PoDAG review in the coming year:• Submitted requests (Brown, Dirksen, GLIMS)• Preview of data sets coming to the UWG for action in coming year (not in priority

order) Kimball MeaSures frozen ground ESDR Long passive microwave and scatterometry Long ReaSON data

o SSMI global enhanced swath/grid data (10TB)o AMSR-E global enhanced swath/grid (10TB)o NSCAT and QuickSCAT polar EASE grid subsets (1TB)o CReSIS snow/firn producto G-CAP and A-CAP MeaSures productso Robinson/Anderson NH Snowcover CDR o MODICE data set (Armstrong)

Discuss status and priority order

PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009

PoDAG Membership

• We should increase membership by 1 - 3 members What areas of NASA user community are under

represented?o Modeling!

What areas of the broader user community are under represented?

Consider both science and data systems expertise?

Actions

• Membership• Recommendations on Decadal Survey

Missions• Recommendations on Searchlight and SAGE• Set up telecon schedule for CY 2010• Next meeting date and location (Washington

DC?)

PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009

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