7th Session Polar Space Task Group (PSTG)

Polar Space Task Group (PSTG)
Seventh Session
Date: 12-13 December 2017
Venue: enveo
Innsbruck, Austria
Meeting room & Logistics
Report: Final Report
Related links : PSTG Home

ALL DOCUMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Agenda Item Related Working Documents

1

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 2  Introductions to Participants

3

Approval of Agenda (Provisional Agenda v20171207)

4

Keynote 1: Environmental EO Information Technology's Contribution to Cryosphere Products and Services

 5  Review of Action Items

6
6.1
6.1.1
6.1.2
6.1.3
6.1.4
6.1.5
6.2
6.3
6.4

Addressing Strategic Initiatives
Global Cryosphere Watch
- Overview & Recent Accomplishments
- CryoNet
- Sea Ice Best Practices
- Framework for Product Validation / Intercomparisons
- Status of Planning: PSTG/GCW Workshop on Snow radar science and concept development
Year of Polar Prediction Status of Activities
Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Arctic Drift Experiment
Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)

7
7.1
7.2

User Requirements
Status Update [Snow1, Snow2, Floating Ice, Permafrost, Ice Sheets, Glaciers [DOC]]
Discussion of new user requirements [SOOS, Third Pole/High Mountain regions]

 8 Status of Agency Responses to PSTG Strategic Plan [ASI, CMA, CNES, CSA/ECCC, DLR (Atm, Cryo), ESA1, ESA2 (Sentinel-1), ISRO, NOAA, NASA, USGS]

9

Keynote 2: Operational Services for Cryosphere

10
10.1
10.2
10.3
 Passive MW Constellation for Mapping Sea Ice
Climate and operational needs for sea ice extent and concentration
Potential AMSR-2 follow-on gap
Consolidated Interagency plan for passive microwave imaging of sea ice

11
11.1
11.2

Communications
ESA Polar Science Collocation Meeting June 2017 (Abstracts, SARCWG Highlights)
Communicating the value of PSTG

12
12.1
12.2
12.3

Reporting
EC-PHORS-7
CGMS-45 [DOC]
CEOS SIT

13

Summary of PSTG-7 Actions

Background Documents / Information
INF. 1 PSTG Strategic Plan 2015-2018
INF. 2 PSTG: Coordinating Space Data in the Antarctic Region (XL Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, 2017)