Dear colleagues,
As promised in a previous message on March 23 (copied below), the NASA Surface Deformation and Change (SDC) Study team is organizing a virtual meeting to discuss recent progress and to receive your input. The SDC mission is one of the Decadal Survey's Designated Observables with the goal of defining the next generation (post-NISAR launch) NASA radar mission architecture. Details on how to register for the meeting are below, and the March 23 message at the bottom contains more details about SDC. We will send the meeting agenda and logistics in the near future for colleagues who had registered.
The SDC meeting will be followed by two more days of SAR-related meetings, as the UAVSAR team discusses current work and future plans for airborne SAR.
Details of the meetings:
Community Update and Virtual Discussions: Surface Deformation and Change Study Plan
Tuesday, May 19 through Thursday, May 21 to be hosted virtually via WebEx
Times are in Pacific Daylight Saving Time (PDT = UTC-7)
Tuesday, May 19, 8:30am-11:45am PDT
· Hear about and discuss the status of the SDC Study Plan, including breakout team inputs discussing research and applications needs derived from the Decadal Survey and other discipline contributions.
· Get updates from the team on potential technology developments, and preliminary architectures.
Wednesday, May 20, 9am-12pm PDT
· Hear from the UAVSAR team about their current contributions, and consider potential contributions of a next-generation, airborne SAR.
Thursday, May 21, 9am-12pm PDT
· Discuss conceptual design options for a next-generation, airborne SAR and help prioritize future airborne SAR capabilities.
The virtual workshop welcomes your continued engagement with SDC as we wait for conditions to improve for a future in-person meeting for 2020
Please register online via Eventbrite for more information!
https://nasa-sdc-virtual.eventbrite.com
For more information: Ala Khazendar (ala@jpl.nasa.gov), Andrew Molthan (andrew.molthan@nasa.gov) and the NASA SDC Team
Best wishes,
Ala
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Ala Khazendar
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M/S 300 - 319
4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109
Tel : 818 393 1581 Fax : 818 393 5184
ala.khazendar@jpl.nasa.gov
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From: CRYOLIST <cryolist-bounces@lists.cryolist.org> on behalf of "Khazendar, Ala (US 334H)" <ala.khazendar@jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Monday, March 23, 2020 at 1:13 PM
To: "CRYOLIST@CRYOLIST.ORG" <CRYOLIST@CRYOLIST.ORG>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [CRYOLIST] Postponement of the NASA Surface Deformation and Change (SDC) Community Workshop, May 19-21, 2020, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Dear Colleagues,
We have decided to postpone the NASA Surface Deformation and Change (SDC) Community Workshop, that was scheduled to take place on May 19-21, 2020, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. We look forward to announcing a new date when travel and in-person collaborations return to normal. For reference, the save-the-date flyer for the now postponed in-person workshop can be found at:
https://science.nasa.gov/files/science-red/s3fs-public/atoms/files/sdc_flyer_workshop_may2020.pdf
In the meantime, we will instead look for an opportunity to engage with you virtually. We hope therefore that you will continue to "save the date" for May 19-21 while we finalize plans to make partial use of that time for a mini-tele-workshop. The main aims of the short virtual meeting would be to provide you with an update on the progress of the SDC study (see below for more details on ongoing activities), to receive your input and, ultimately, to continue to build community support for the objectives of SDC.
We invite you to learn more about SDC, including the ongoing work of four thematic groups focusing on the Cryosphere, Ecosystems, Hydrology and Solid Earth and Geohazards. This information can be found at:
https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-sdc
In summary, SDC is a "Designated Observable Study" sponsored by NASA in response to the National Academies 2017 Decadal Survey, which recommended to NASA that radar observations of surface deformation and change would help shape the next decade of Earth Science and Applications. This study is exploring the observational capabilities and their parameters sought by the research and applications communities, and what the architecture of an eventual mission would be.
For any questions, please contact Ala Khazendar (ala.khazendar@jpl.nasa.gov) and Andrew Molthan (andrew.molthan@nasa.gov).
With best wishes,
Ala and the SDC Research and Applications Team
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Ala Khazendar
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M/S 300 - 319
4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109
Tel : 818 393 1581 Fax : 818 393 5184
ala.khazendar@jpl.nasa.gov
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