Agenda
Brisbane Future Discussion
Governance Issues
Attendees

AGENDA RCN MEETING AT SILVILASER 2015 V.2.0
TLS Research Coordination Network
October 1-2 2015, La Grande Motte, FR

Thursday, October 1
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome and Review of Agenda – Alan Strahler

09:10 – 10:30 Activity Reports Session 1 (~10 min each )

  • Boston U.: Alan Strahler
  • UMass Boston: Crystal Schaaf
  • CSIRO: Michael Schaefer
  • UQ/DSITI: John Armston
  • Beijing Normal U.: Yiming Chen
  • UCL: Mat Disney
  • Salford: Mark Danson, Lucy Schofield
  • Newcastle: Rachel Gaulton
  • FGI: Sanna Kaasalainen

10:45– 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Interest Group Reports: Reports and discussion (~10–15 min each)

  • IG1 Instrument Development: (Crystal Schaaf, Sanna Kaasalainen)
  • IG2 Data Preprocessing and Analysis: (John Armston)
  • G3 Algorithms for Information Extraction (Steve Hancock)
  • IG4 Ecological Drivers and Applications: (Rachel Gaulton)
  • IG5 Field Measurement Protocols: (Kim Calders, Meinrad Abegg)
  • IG6 Fire Hazard Assessment and Modeling (Mark Danson)

12:30 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:45 Brisbane Future Discussion (~45 min) (See page 2)

13:45 –15:00 Activities Session 2 (~10 min each)

  • Gent: Sruthi Parvathi, Hans Verbeeck
  • Exeter/U. Maryland: Steve Hancock
  • RIT: Martin van Leeuwen
  • Virginia Commonwealth U.: EAGER-NEON Project: (Alan?)
  • Wageningen U.: Avaro Lau, Jose Tanago
  • Zurich: Felix Morsdorf, Meinrad Abegg, Fabian Schneider

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 – 17:00 Governance Issues (See page 3)
Friday October 2
09:00 – 10:00 IG4 Meeting

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30 Way Forward: ABLS, Ecological Apps, Interest Groups

Brisbane Future Discussion

13:00 – 13:45 Brisbane Future Discussion (~45 min)

  1. Brisbane Broad Objectives
    1. Get papers out
    2. Exchange information to enhance productivity
    3. Get grants separately and together
    4. Provide intercomparison data for future use?
    5. Other objectives?
  2. Relation of objectives to RCN
    1. Interest groups will (hopefully) expand and enhance info exchange
    2. RCN funding for meetings and exchanges will facilitate collaboration
    3. RCN can add credibility and strengthen proposals
    4. However, RCN will compete for effort of group, especially since many of the group are IG conveners
  3. Possible Actions
    1. Stay the course – continue to meet monthly, keep pushing on papers, etc.
    2. Stay the course until the end of the year and reassess.
    3. Continue monthly meetings, but refocus more on papers, less on interest group stuff and news, to keep shorter
    4. Alternate meetings with RCN, possibly refocus as above
    5. Phase out or end Skypes and use Brisbane wiki to move papers ahead.
    6. Phase out or end Skypes and leave authors to finish papers (or not, if research has moved on).

Governance Issues

15:15 – 17:00 Governance Issues

  • Membership – Steering Committee; New participants
  • Assessment – “Ongoing assessment of progress and the quality and quantity of coordination will be an theme within the project. Assessment will be discussed as a regular agenda item in teleconferences and will appear in steering committee reports posted to the TLSIIG web site. Needed actions will be taken to improve effectiveness and the direction of coordination toward the goals.”
  • Travel and Participant Support – “A solicitation through the TLSIIG web site will open funding opportunities for workshops and builder’s meetings to the community, with the Steering Committee or subcommittee acting to disburse funds in support of the coordination goals. Where possible, the Steering Committee will favor younger researchers, graduate students, and underrepresented groups.”
  • Supplementary Support from Participant Organizations (Stuart Phinn)
  • Participant Selection. “Workshops and meetings will be open to all TLSIIG members, who will be informed of activities through the email list and web site. Appropriate Steering Committee members will be canvased before upcoming activities for outside participants to encourage to join the TLSIIG and RCN and participate. For student exchanges, students will be solicited to prepare short proposals for their exchanges and the steering committee will review and award them.”
  • Diversity Action. Summer internship available for underrepresented minority at BU; Crystal to identify? Are there other underrepresented minorities at other places that we can invite into the RCN?
  • TLSIIG-RCN Relationship. Quo Vadis?

Other Stuff

  • Richard Fournier’s suggestion that we find more sites to compare instruments and results?
  • Tie in to Francophone TLS group, Canada and France?
  • Other new business?

AGENDA RCN MEETING AT SILVILASER 2015 V.2.0
TLS Research Coordination Network
October 1-2 2015, La Grande Motte, FR

Attendees: (W to E)

  • Boston U.: Alan Strahler, Tim Condon
  • Mass Boston: Angela Erb, Ian Paynter, Francesco Peri, Eddie Saenz, Crystal Schaaf
  • Rochester I. T.: Martin van Leeuwen
  • Coll. London: Andy Burt, Kim Calders, Mat Disney, Martin van Leeuwen
  • Salford: Mark Danson, Lucy Schofield
  • Newcastle: Rachel Gaulton
  • Exeter/U. Maryland: Steve Hancock
  • Wageningen U.: Avaro Lau, Jose Tanago
  • Gent: Sruthi Parvathi
  • Zurich: Felix Morsdorf, Meinrad Abegg, Fabian Schneider
  • Finnish Geospat. Res. Inst.: Sanna Kaasalainen
  • CSIRO, Canberra: Michael Schaefer
  • Queensland/Queensland Dept Sci Info Tech Innovation: John Armston
  • Beijing Normal U.: Yiming Chen