Standing Committee on Applied Science and Research: Report on Action Items from IICWG-I IICWG...

Standing Committee on Applied Science Standing Committee on Applied Science and Research:and Research:

Report on Action Items from IICWG-IReport on Action Items from IICWG-I

Standing Committee on Applied Science Standing Committee on Applied Science and Research:and Research:

Report on Action Items from IICWG-IReport on Action Items from IICWG-I

IICWGIICWGInternational Ice Charting Working GroupInternational Ice Charting Working Group

IICWG-II, Reykjavik, Iceland, 3-5 October, 2001


Terms of Reference - 1Terms of Reference - 1

Applied Science, Research and Development Identify research priorities for improved analysis and forecasting

capabilities, and communicate and promote these priorities within national and international funding agencies.

Identify research technologies available for transition to operations, and coordinate efforts to encourage their transition and validation through funding, logistical support, and cooperative verification and validation processes.

Report on operational initiatives, and research and field programs, of broad interest across the ice charting community.

Encourage and facilitate coordinated efforts in supporting ice research and development, including numerical ice prediction models, remote sensing applications, and digital image processing capabilities.


Terms of Reference - 2Terms of Reference - 2

Technology for Analysis and Forecastingpartially adopted — to be further addressed in collaboration with Data, Information, and Support Committee at future meetings(s) Monitor development and implementation of advanced information

technology as applied to new digital sea ice analysis and techniques. Identify technology applications supporting efficient dissemination and

exchange of data, products, and ice information services. Recommend areas of potential common interest for technology sharing. Identify emerging capabilities supporting sea ice and iceberg analysis and

forecasting and recommend their integration into operations as appropriate.


Action Item SummaryAction Item Summary

Nine (9) action items were generated at IICWG-I Action item #8 on requirements and concepts for remote

user terminal development was deferred Actionees/Coordinators solicited for input as well as

general IICWG members Summary document compiled for IICWG distribution Oral report on action items grouped into following 3 theme

areas:

Data and Information Exchange Research Collaboration Data Access for International Ice Services


Data and Information Exchange:Actions

Data and Information Exchange:Actions

Includes following actions Action 2: Establish the regular exchange of information on current

projects and proposals in development.

Coordinator(s): Dean Flett, Canada, Canadian Ice Service Action 3: Exchange and coordinate Envisat AO data acquisition and

validation plans.

Coordinator(s): Roger De Abreu, Canada, Canadian Ice Service, [email protected] and Leif Toudal Pedersen, Denmark, Danish Center for Remote Sensing

Action 4: Organize appropriate workshops and special sessions that focus specifically on R&D in support of operations. First opportunity at WMO SGSI Workshop in Ottawa, May 2-4, 2000.

Coordinator(s): Dean Flett, Canada, Canadian Ice Service


Summaries of current/planned activities solicited from countries - NIC and DNMI provided and are posted on IICWG web

need to have other participating nations submit brief summaries

IICWG web site hosted by NSIDC (Fetterer) has provided valuable mechanism for general information exchange

should be further utilized

Envisat AO proposals have been gathered and will be submitted for web posting in near future

ESTEC and ESRIN contacted and are supportive of coordination efforts further discussion/coordination required to pursue early data access

Several sessions focused on various R&D themes were organized at WMO/CIWG workshop in Ottawa in May, 2000

combined with “hands-on” operations-focused sessions this information exchange was valuable in identifying operations issues for research

Data and Information Exchange:Progress

Data and Information Exchange:Progress


Includes following actions:

Action 5: Attempt to establish additional ARKTOS (Advanced Reasoning using Knowledge for Typing of Sea ice) validation sites.

Coordinator(s): Cheryl Bertoia, United States, National Ice Center, and Rashpal Gill, Denmark, Danish Meteorological Institute

Action 6: Attempt to establish additional EUMETSAT SAF validation sites.

Coordinator(s): Lars-Anders Breivik, Norway, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, and Roger De Abreu, Canada, Canadian Ice Service

Action 7: Engage DMI in CIS/IIP iceberg experiments.

Coordinator(s): Dean Flett, Canada, Canadian Ice Service; Rashpal Gill, Denmark, Danish Meteorological Institute; and Robert Desh, United States, International Ice Patrol

Research Collaboration:Actions

Research Collaboration:Actions


Research Collaboration:Progress

Research Collaboration:Progress

NIC obtained approval for transfer of ARKTOS software to DMI and transfer of the s/w is “in progress”

CIS started project this fall and assigned research staff person to evaluate existing contract for development finishing this year topic for discussion

EUMETSAT SAF team visited NOAA, NIC, and CIS in September SAF products to be expanded to entire Northern hemisphere agreements to exchange validation data sets, products, and coordinate research Lars-Anders Breivik will be giving a presentation with further details

CIS and IIP provided all RADARSAT Iceberg Detection project data from 1999 season to DMI

includes all iceberg validation data collected from IIP underflights and surface validation data collected by CIS contractor (C-CORE)

approximately 20 frames of accompanying RADARSAT data (Wide and ScanSAR modes) provided to DMI

DMI (Gill et al.) will be using data to test their algorithms 2000 season data when compiled will also be made available for analysis


Includes following actions:

Action 1: Attempt to establish recognition of Special User Group status (e.g. similar to PIPOR) for the operational ice community for early Envisat and RADARSAT-2 validation.

Coordinator(s): Michael Manore, Canada, Canadian Ice Service; Leif Toudal Pedersen, Denmark, Danish Center for Remote Sensing

Action 9: IICWG to attempt to influence data policies of flight agencies to better meet the requirements of the operational ice services.

Coordinator(s): Helen Wood, United States, NOAA; and David Grimes, Canada, Environment Canada

Data Access:Actions

Data Access:Actions


Data Access:Progress

Data Access:Progress

Informal discussions with the Canadian Space Agency and RADARSAT International on early and “group” access

RSI will consider early access to RADARSAT-2 data prior to full “qualification” (for CIS and other operational customers), particularly if RADARSAT-1 out of service

Research and validation opportunities for RS-2 have not yet been developed opportunity for IICWG member nations to clarify expectations

CIS has had discussions with senior ESA EO Advisor (Guy Duchossois) and raised similar issues for Envisat

Conveyed to senior ESA/Envisat program personnel further follow up required

CEOS/IGOS Disaster Management Support Project has added “Ice Hazards” and raised importance of improved support for ice services

NIC brief will provide further details + recommend IICWG support to this endeavour

Recommended to CSA to broaden activities to include operational missions to support meteorology-based missions

Envisat HLOP has placed ops/commercial data requests higher than science/research

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