Long term global monitoring of vegetation variables using moderate resolution satellites:
A combined meeting of the third biennial global vegetation workshop at the University of Montana and the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites Working Group on Calibration and Validation.

    Workshop in EOS Transactions

A summary of the Global Vegetation Workshop was published in EOS Transactions. Citation details and a full PDF of the article can be found here.


Post-Workshop Update

Electronic copies of workshop presentations and posters are now available. To download presentations, go to the schedule and choose the corresponding download. Posters can be downloaded from this list. If you attended the workshop and your poster or presentation is not listed, please email it to vegmtg@ntsg.umt.edu if you want it included.


August 8-10, 2006
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

A number of international organizations are focusing on the requirements for, and the accuracy and use of, Earth observation from space to address both science and applications questions concerning our terrestrial environment. There are now multiple global vegetation products from several similar sensors - with more planned over the next several years. This situation has provided the impetus for the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) through its Land Product Validation sub-Group (LPV) to better coordinate satellite-based global observations of vegetation parameters.

The primary objective of this workshop is to establish a framework to understand the inter-relationship between multiple, global vegetation products so to identify opportunities for:

  • Increasing knowledge through combined products,
  • realizing efficiency by avoiding redundancy, and
  • developing near- and long-term plans to avoid gaps in our understanding of critical global vegetation information.
The objective of the workshop is to bring researchers together to advance these themes and formulate recommendations for CEOS members and GEOSS.

    

August 7, 2006
VI Validation Pre-Workshop
Validation of global vegetation indices and their time series (A CEOS Land Product Validation topical workshop)

LPV Summary of May 23-25th Meeting, The Earth Observer, July/Aug 2006

Call For Posters
All posters will be displayed throughout the entire meeting. There will be an initial poster “reception” along with registration on Monday evening, August 7th.

Please submit a Poster for the Meeting prior to July 31st from the following specific areas:
  • Satellite product validation and/or inter-comparison
  • Time series of vegetation data
  • Multi-sensor vegetation data analysis
  • The application of global vegetation monitoring to societal benefit areas, specifically disasters, climate change, ecosystem assessment, agricultural monitoring, catchment hydrology

          ** There are no poster size limitations
    •     The programmatic context for the workshop falls into three broad areas, each with its own related programs:
    • Global Observations through the Global Observation of Forest Cover /Global Observation of Landcover Dynamics (GOFC/GOLD) and the Integrated Global Observations of Land (IGOL)
    • Climate Science through the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and Global Terrestrial Observing System’s Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (GTOS-TOPC)
    • Societal Benefits through the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
    Global vegetation parameters are critical for each of these three areas. The global product inter-sensor framework developed at this workshop will be submitted formally to each of these programs through their respective channels.
         		    

    Organizing Committee
    Sergey Bartalev, Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences
    Frédéric Baret, INRA
    Sebastien Garrigues, Umd/NASA
    Michael Hill, Department of Earth Systems Science and Policy, UND (September 2006)
    Chu Ishida, JAXA
    Herve Jeanjean, CNES
    Chris Justice, UMD
    Jeff Morisette, NASA GSFC
    Bernard Pinty, JRC
    Michael Rast, ESA
    Steve Running, University of Montana