"Ground-based Accuracy Assessments for Fire Occurrence
and Deforestation Events."
Monday, 26 July 2004
Grand Bittar Hotel
An all-day Workshop held in conjunction with:
III LBA Scientific Conference to be held July 27-29, 2004
and
The Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS) Land Product Validation subgroup
http://landval.gsfc.nasa.gov/LPVS
Workshop Registration: Please register to attend this workshop so organizers can plan accordingly. In order to register for this workshop, you will need to create and sign-in to your LBA conference web-site account and complete the on-line LBA conference registration so that your name and contact information can be made available to the organizers. Once you have signed in, select "Register to Attend an Associated Meeting" on your account menu and follow instructions. PLEASE NOTE: If you are NOT planning to attend the III LBA Scientific Conference, please ignore the details about paying your registration fee. The registration fee is only for the III LBA Scientific Conference.
Organizers:
Dalton Valeriano (INPE)
Wilfrid Schroeder (IBAMA)
Jeff Morisette (NASA)
Foster Brown (WHRC and UFAC)
Ruth Defries (UMd)
Mateus Batistella (Embrapa)
Objectives of this workshop are three-fold:
- to propose protocols for ground-based accuracy assessments of remotely sensed estimates of fire occurrence and of deforestation events and disseminate existing ground-based data that could be used for validation studies of past events;
- to address means of establishing error bars and accuracy estimates pertaining to fire and deforestation products
- to integrate efforts for future assessments in Amazonia.
Prospective participants are encouraged to contribute suggestions to the organizers in the months prior to the workshop so that preliminary versions of protocols and plans of integration can be prepared and circulated.
Preliminary Agenda:
|
9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcome - Batistella/Valeriano/Schroeder |
|
9:15 - 10:00 |
Charge of workshop and Need for Error Bars - Brown |
10:00 - 10:30 |
CEOS Land Product Validation overview and implication for South America and Amazonia- Morisette |
10:30 - 10:45 |
Break |
10:45 - 11:00 |
Overview of fire occurrence accuracy assessment - Schroeder |
11:00 - 11:15 |
Overview of deforest accuracy assessment -Valeriano |
11:15 - 12:45 |
Up to 5 individuals to give 15 min. report on accuracy assessment pertaining to: |
12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch |
2:00 - 3:00 |
Group discussion on protocols for ground-based accuracy assessments of remotely sensed estimates of fire occurrence and of deforestation event - moderated by Csiszar and Shimabukuro |
3:00 - 4:00 |
Group discussion on dissemination of ground-based data that could be used to validate estimates of past fire occurrence and deforestation events - moderated by Brown & Dar Roberts |
4:00 - 4:30 |
Group discussion on integrating efforts for future assessments in Amazonia - moderated by Valeriano and Schroeder |
4:30 - 5:00 |
Review of action items and summary to take to LBA special session 19 - Morisette |
