| Tuesday, 11 January 2005 | 
 | 8:00 AM-8:15 AM, Tuesday Keynote Session  Towards a Global Earth Observation System of Systems | 
Speaker: Gregory Withee, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD 
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 | 8:20 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday Session 1 Part I: GOES-R [Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R] | 
 | 8:20 AM | 1.1 | GOES-R Program Overview    Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS |  
 | 8:40 AM | 1.2 | GOES-R Users’ Conference GUC–3     James Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD |  
 | 8:50 AM | 1.3 | ABI [Advanced Baseline Imager]     Timothy J. Schmit, ORA, Madison, WI |  
 | 9:10 AM | 1.4 | Hyperspectral Environmental Suite Soundings     W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI |  
 | 9:25 AM | 1.5 | Hyperspectral Environmental Suite Coastal Waters     W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI |  
 | 9:35 AM | 1.5a | Preview of GOES-R posters – Mr. Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS     Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI |  
 | 9:45 AM |  | Formal Poster Viewing and Coffee Break   
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 | 11:00 AM | 1.6 | Other Planned Instruments – SIS & SEISS     Howard J. Singer, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO |  
 | 11:10 AM | 1.7 | Other Planned Instruments – Lightning Mapper    Hugh J. Christian Jr., NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |  
 | 11:20 AM | 1.8 | GOES – Polar synergy     W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI |  
 | 11:45 AM | 1.9 | GOES-R Schedule and Architecture    Steven P. Kirkner, NOAA/NESDIS |  
 | 11:55 AM | 1.9a | Closing Remarks - Dr. Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS    Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD |  
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 | 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Poster Session 1 GOES-R Posters | 
 |   | P1.1 | Baseline Instruments Planned for the GOES-R Series    James Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. J. Schmit |  
 |   | P1.2 | Introducing the Next Generation Geostationary Imager-- GOES-R's Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)    Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. Gurka, W. P. Menzel, M. M. Gunshor, and K. B. Karnouskas |  
 |   | P1.3 | Space Environment Monitoring in the GOES Era    Howard J. Singer, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Hill |  
 |   | P1.4 | "Using ABI for HES cloud-clearing"    Jun Li, SSEC, WI |  
 |   | P1.5 | Applications of the GOES-R HES Coastal Waters Capability    Christopher W. Brown, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ondrusek and R. Stumpf |  
 |   | P1.6 | The GOES Lightning Mapper - Design Characteristics and Performance    Hugh J. Christian Jr., NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |  
 |   | P1.7 | CLASS Overview (Also in IIPS)    Richard G. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS; and J. Bates, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez |  
 |   | P1.8 | CLASS Future (Also in IIPS)    Richard G. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS; and J. Bates, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez |  
 |   | P1.9 | CLASS GOES (Also in IIPS)    Richard G. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS; and J. Bates, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez |  
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 | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Panel Discussion 1 Part II: Panel Session [with GOES-R Industry Partners Sponsored Box Lunch] | 
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 | 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Session 2 Part III: NPOESS – [National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System] | 
 | 1:30 PM | 2.1 | Introductory Remarks: Future National Operational Environmental Satellites    Stephen A. Mango, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD |  
 | 1:35 PM | 2.1a | Preparing the Way for NPOESS     John D. Cunningham, NOAA/NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD |  
 | 2:00 PM | 2.2 | Meteorological Mission    Elbert (Joe) W. Friday, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC |  
 | 2:20 PM | 2.3 | Climate Mission     Berrien Moore III, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH |  
 | 2:40 PM | 2.4 | Ocean Mission     Robert Winokur, Technical Director for the Oceanographer of the Navy, Washington, DC |  
 | 3:00 PM |  | Coffee Break   
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 | 3:30 PM |  | NPOESS Mission Capabilities   
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 | 4:45 PM | 2.6 | NPOESS Preparatory Project [NPP]     Jeffrey Privette, NASA/GSFC |  
 | 5:00 PM | 2.7 | WindSat/Coriolis     Peter W. Gaiser, NRL, Washington, DC  20375, DC |  
 | 5:15 PM | 2.7a | System of Systems Planning & Closing Remarks for Joint Symposium - Dr. Colleen N. Hartman, Deputy Assistant Administrator NOAA/NESDIS     Colleen N. Hartman, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI |  
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 | 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday Session  NPOESS Mission Capabilities | 
 | 3:30 PM |  | NPOESS Mission Capabilities: VIIRS     W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI |  
 | 3:42 PM |  | NPOESS Mission Capabilities: VIIRS Environmental Imagery     Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA |  
 | 3:54 PM |  | NPOESS Mission Capabilities: CrIS     William Smith Sr., Hampton University, Hampton, VA |  
 | 4:06 PM |  | NPOESS Mission Capabilities: OMPS     Lawrence E. Flynn, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA |  
 | 4:18 PM |  | NPOESS Mission Capabilities: ATMS     David H. Staelin, MIT, Cambridge, MA |  
 | 4:30 PM |  | NPOESS Mission Capabilities: CMIS New CMIS Products for Science and Operational Applications     Thomas Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO |  
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 | 5:30 PM-9:00 PM, Tuesday   Reception: Team NPOESS Sponsored | 
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| Wednesday, 12 January 2005 | 
 | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday Poster Session 2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break: NPOESS Posters | 
 |   | P2.1 | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)    Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Ricker, M. Mader, and M. L. Jamilkowski |  
 |   | P2.2 | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder on NPOESS and NPP    Warren Atwood, NGST, Redondo Beach, CA; and C. Muth, M. Lee, A. Webb, and J. C. Shiue |  
 |   | P2.3 | NPOESS Direct Readout    John Overton, NPOESS IPO/Aerospace Corp. |  
 |   | P2.4 | Content Framework for Operational Environmental Remote Sensing Data Sets: NPOESS Concepts    Alan Goldberg, NPOESS IPO; and W. Johnsen and S. Farrow |  
 |   | P2.5 | Design Evolution of the VIIRS Sensor Since CDR    Mike Haas, NPOESS IPO/Aerospace Corp.; and T. Scalion, J. R. Swenson, F. J. DeLuccia, M.  Schueler, E. Clement, and L. Darnton |  
 |   | P2.6 | NPOESS Spacecraft Baseline Design, Progress and Plans for Insertion of "Instruments of Opportunity"    Chuck Naegeli, NPOESS IPO/NASA; and D. Adkins |  
 |   | P2.7 | Capabilities of Safety Net    Gerard D. Wittman, Raytheon Company/IIS, Aurora, CO; and R. Tsugawa, J. Valenti, J. Mulligan, and M. Wenkel |  
 |   | P2.8 | The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Algorithms for The Next Generation of US Ozone Monitoring Instruments    Lawrence E. Flynn, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA; and J. Larsen, C. Seftor, G. Jaross, C. Wellemeyer, J. Rodriguez, D. Newell, J. Leitch, Q. Remund, E. Hilsenrath, J. Hornstein, D. Flittner, R. Loughman, F. Sanner, C. C. Stutz, and P. Xu |  
 |   | P2.9 | NPOESS Interface Data Processing Segment Architecture and Software    Kerry Grant, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO; and K. Souza, C. Fox, and S. Turek |  
 |   | P2.10 | "UML Representation of NPOESS Data Products in HDF5"    William Johnsen, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO; and D. Dulaigh and C. Johnson |  
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