Presentations from the 4th Global Vegetation Workshop

June 16-19, 2009, Missoula, Montana, USA

Tuesday

• Welcome - Steve Running
• Grand Challenges in Remote Sensing - John Townsend
• Surface Radiation Products - Crystal Schaaf
• Land Cover and Land Cover Change: an Overview of Current Global Products and Challenges Ahead - Pierre Defourny
• MODIS Vegetation Indices - Alfredo Huete
• Global Biophysical Variables - Steven W. Running and Maosheng Zhao
• Integrating Satellite Data with Ecosystem Models: Progress & Prospects - Ramakrishna Nemani, Petr Votava, Andy Michaelis, Forrest Melton, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Weile Wang, Cristina Milesi and Sam Hiatt
• Surface Radiation/LST Synthesis - Mark Chopping
• Land Cover Posters Summary - Matt Hansen
• Integration Posters - Nicholas Coops
• The Role of Models in Remotely Sensed Primary Production Estimates - Maosheng Zhao

Wednesday

• Improving GPP, NPP, and NEE predictions from space - Richard Waring, Nicholas Coops and Joe Landsberg
• Fluxnet and AmeriFlux - Beverly Law
• NEON Overview and Status - Michael Keller
• The Globcarbon Initiative - Martin Herold
• GOFC-GOLD Fire: an International Program for the Coordination of Fire Observations - C. O. Justice,I. Csiszar,J.G. Goldammer
• LAND PRODUCT VALIDATION - F. Baret, J. Nightingale, S. Garrigues, J. Nickeson
• Geoland2 :Towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service - R. Lacaze
• Land Long Term Data Record (LTDR) - Ed Masuoka, Eric Vermote, Jeff Pedelty, David Roy, Jeff Privette, Jorge Pinzon, Steve Prince, Sadashiva Devadiga, Compton Tucker, Molly Brown
• Land Measurement Portal - Enrique Montano
• Questions and Thoughts for Dinner - Chris Justice

Thursday

• Global Vegetation Structure Dynamics from NASA's DESDynI Mission - Ralph Dubayah
• Essential Climate Variables - Compton Tucker
• INDIAN LAND MONITORING SATELLITE SYSTEMS - MD BEHERA
• China Earth Observation Satellite Program - Yuan Zeng
• VENμS: a new EO mission at - G.Dedieu, O.Hagolle, S. Garrigues
• NPP VIIRS Update-Robert E. Murphy,Bonnie Reed
• Landsat Data Continuity Mission and Beyond - Mike Wulder
• Development of Vegetation Products for U.S. GOES-R Satellite Mission - Yunyue Yu, Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR-Yunyue Yu, Mitch Goldberg, Peter Romanov, Hui Xu, Yuhong Tian
• HyspIRI - Simon Hook
• DESDynI - Ralph Dubayah
• The Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Mission: Monitoring Soil Moisture and Freeze/Thaw State - John Kimball
• Overview of meeting - John Townshend
• Top ten way to know you are ready for the 5th Global Vegetation Monitoring Workshop - Jeff Morisette with Contributions from Meeting Attendees