Joint Panel Disscussion 1 The Wizard Behind the Curtain?—The Important, Diverse, and Often Hidden Role of Spectrum Allocation for Current and Future Environmental Satellites and Water, Weather, and Climate

Thursday, 10 January 2019: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM
North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 33rd Conference on Hydrology )
Moderator:
Renee A. Leduc Clarke, Narayan Strategy, Washington, MA
Panelists:
Jordan J. Gerth, Univ. of Wisconsin- Madison/CIMSS, Madison, WI; Sidharth Misra, JPL, Pasadena, CA and Ron Marotto, Ventura County Watershed Protection District, CA

An invited session of experts will discuss some vital and varied, but not-so-visible, roles of spectrum frequency allocation which effects current and future environmental satellite systems and the water, weather & climate enterprise.  Areas of possible discussion are:  Weather radar, remote sensing impacts, GOES communications, DCS, Small satellites, radiosondes, frequency-sharing proposals in the NOAAPort band, and International Impacts.

Papers:
8:30 AM
Panelist -- Ron Marotto
8:30 AM
Panelist -- Sidharth Misra
8:30 AM
Panelist -- Jordan Gerth
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