Session: NPOESS Risk Reduction (2006

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	NPOESS Risk Reduction
	Organizer: Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO, Silver Spring, MD Chair: Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO, Silver Spring, MD
	3:30 PM	1.1	The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Risk Reduction Approach James Schaeffer, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Spencer
	3:45 PM	1.2	NPOESS Risk Reduction, NAST for CrIMSS William Smith Sr., Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and D. K. Zhou, X. Liu, A. M. Larar, S. A. Mango, D. H. Staelin, H. E. Revercomb, and P. W. Rosenkranz
	4:15 PM	1.3	WindSat Space Borne Polarimetric Microwave Radiomenter: Mission Overview and Sensor Performance Peter W. Gaiser, NRL, Washington, DC
	4:45 PM	1.4	Risk reduction for NPOESS using heritage sensors: AIRS, HIRS, MSU, SSM/I, AMSU, and MODIS John F. Le Marshall, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Jung, S. Lord, J. Derber, M. Goldberg, W. Wolf, and S. Mango
	5:15 PM	1.5	NPOESS data exploitation (NDE) project H. James Silva, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Tuesday, 31 January 2006: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, A302

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