Questions and Thoughts for Dinner

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Questions and Thoughts for Dinner

• Following a series of programmatic presentations

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• Q1. What is the minimum set of sensors needed to
  meet our land science and applications needs?
• Can currently available international assets, if
  better organized meet these needs ?
• What are the current and impending gaps ?
• How can we increase availability and use of
  current and future international assets ?
• Q2. How would we suggest the agencies enable and
  support data integration (e.g. ESA/NASA,
  Optical/microwave, Multi-resolution,
  Polar/Geostationary )?
• What are the minimum standards for land products
  to meet the bulk of user needs and that would
  facilitate integration?
• Metadata, datums, formats, projections,
  orthorectification, validation
• Q3. What are the crucial deficiencies in terms of
  validation?
• How do raise the profile and secure the necessary
  funding ?
• Can we make validation investments part of all
  new instruments ( as with VIIRS ) ?
• O4. International coordination and oversight
  how do we fix it ?
• How would we change/refine the current ECVs ?
• Are we focused too much on ECVs vs other needs?

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• Q5. How can we use the existing international
  mechanisms that some of us have been investing
  heavily in to address the above
• what programs have met their goals and can be
  ended ?
• are additional programs needed ?
• Who is willing to help ?
• Q6. Are there new ways to improve monitoring of
  vegetation moving away from old paradigms
  (classification methods, NPP and NEP, SeaWiFS etc
  )?

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