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Boulder, Colorado - August 11-12, 2005


Presentations on August 11, 2005

Chris Elvidge, Earth Observation Group, NGDC
Introduction

Christopher Fox, Director, NGDC
Making NOAA´s data more accessible to the scientific community


Alexander Kidd, CLASS Project Area Lead
Overview of CLASS

John Kinsfather, National Geophysical Data Center
Network and Archive Infrastructure


John J. Bates, National Climatic Data Center
CLASS User Requirements and Creation of Climate Data Records


Doug Zirkle
CLASS System Engineering Team Chair, CLASS Long-Term Architecture Team member
Design Plans and Options Under Consideration


User Community Panel:

Garrett Campbell
, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
User and Producer


Ron Weaver, DAAC Manager
National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC and CLASS


Bill Emery and Dan Baldwin
University of Colorado, CCAR
Access to Large Satellite Data Sets


John Townshend, University of Maryland College Park
User Needs for the Land


Dr. Mohan Ramamurthy, Director, Unidata Program Center
Satellite Data Access and Use: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities for Academia

Presentations on August 12, 2005

Yang Xia, California Institute of Technology
Prospects for improving high volume data transfers


Iosif Legrand, California Institute of Technology
An Agent Based, Dynamic Service System to Monitor, Control and Optimize Distributed Systems

Reports from Breakout Groups: