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AusCover Data Users Worshop, 8 March 2012, Brisbane, Queensland

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VIIRS workshops on new remote-sensing software

TERN and AusCover are organising two workshops on the new Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) processing software that has just begun to be used in satellite sensing.

VIIRS is a scanning radiometer mounted on a satellite to collect visible and infrared radiometric measurements of the land, atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere (ice-covered land and sea, and permafrost). Its deployment will have an impact on AusCover’s remote-sensing activities.

The workshops relate to the software to process data that will be received from the VIIRS instruments, which are the NASA replacement for the MODIS-series instruments. The first of the VIIRS instruments was launched last month.

One VIIRS workshop will be held in Perth on 6–8 February 2012, and the other in Melbourne on 13–15 February 2012. The workshops will be presented by a team comprising Professor Paul Menzel, Mr Liam Gumley and Dr Geoff Cureton from the Space Science and Engineering Centre (SSEC) and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This team wrote the well-known and widely used International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP).

The team has been working for the last three years on VIIRS processing algorithms and software. The workshops will cover the instrument characteristics, the algorithms, the hands-on processing of simulated datasets and, if they are available in time, processing of VIIRS down-linked datasets.

Information on the program, venues and registration will be emailed to everyone on the TERN central email list and to other remote sensing groups. For more information contact Professor Mervyn Lynch, in the Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, Curtin University, Perth, by email or on (08) 9266 7540 or 0407 443 951.

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If you are in Adelaide on Tuesday 27 March, you might be interested in attending The ACEAS Great Debate as a prelude to the TERN Symposium.

Registration to the 3rd TERN Annual National Symposium is now open. Program and registration information are on the symposium webpage.

TERN's AusCover Facility is holding a Data Users Workshop in Brisbane on 8 March. Visit the web page for links to the program and information on how to register.

TERN's AusPlots Sub-Facility is holding a Field Method Training workshop at the Renmark and Calperum Station Supersite in South Australia, 4-9 March. Limited places available, so get in quick!

In our December newsletter the TERN Director summarises — and celebrates — the huge effort that has gone into creating the TERN network so far. We introduce you to the complex world of the Australian Supersite Network. At workshops in Adelaide and Perth, TERN facilities work with various collaborators; we invite you to get involved in TERN; and there's some wild talk. You'll have to read the newsletter to find out more.

New research supersite will tell woodlands climate story (media release)

What would it take to get you to share (both deposit and use) data in TERN facility portals? If this question interests you join our discussion on LinkedIn.