January 2004

The Deforestation Mapping Group/GLCF Science Group participated in NASA's Land Cover Land Use Change Science Team Meeting at the University of Maryland, January 20-22, 2004.
A poster was presented which outlined the study results for the LCLUC project "Improvements in Landsat Pathfinder methods for monitoring tropical deforestation and their extension to extra-tropical areas". The poster included a map of forest cover and forest cover change across Paraguay derived from satellite imagery and an outline of the accuracy assessment strategy for the map.
Dr. John Townshend, Principal Investigator for the LCLUC project, presented the GLCF REASON project and also made a programmatic presentation for GOFC/GOLD.

GLCF team members participated in the winter meeting of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIPs), and the first the SEEDS Working Group Kick-Off Meeting, in Orlando, Florida, January 5-8, 2004. John Townshend and Mike Smorul from GLCF hosted and presented a special breakout session "Grid Technologies and the ESIP Federation", including Reagan Moore from San Diego on the discussion panel. During this session, the GLCF work on a SEEDS funded project was presented and expectations for its continued growth within the Federation discussed through the wide audience. Additionally, GLCF staff presented five posters in the main poster session, and associate Mike Smorul made a separate presentation on the Storage Resource Broker data grid, in a Technical Workshops session. The overall Federation meeting was another success, bringing Earth science community members into closer association. Following the Federation meeting, the SEEDS Working Group Kick-Off meeting was attended by GLCF staff, primarily in the Metrics and Technology working groups. The GLCF team looks forward to the summer meetings.Click here for photos taken at the event.