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          ESTF2011 Schedule 
            Session titles link directly to the session detail within the  SESSIONS page. 
          
              
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                Day 1: Tuesday, June 21 | 
               
              
                | 7:30 - 8:00 | 
                Registration  | 
             
            
              | 8:00 - 8:30 | 
              Forum Welcome  | 
             
            
              | 8:30 - 9:30 | 
              Plenary Address 
                with  
                  Charles Elachi, Director  
                Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
                [+ Presentation (20MB, PDF) / + Listen (38MB, mp3)]  | 
             
            
              | 9:30 - 10:00  | 
              Morning Break   | 
             
            
              | 10:00 - 12:00pm  | 
              Session A1  
                    Information Systems Technology for Airborne Communications and Computing  | 
              Session B1  
                    Active Microwave - I  
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              | 12:00 - 1:30pm  | 
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              | 1:30 - 3:30pm  | 
              Session A2   
                    Science Analysis Frameworks: Sensors, Data Products, Models  
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              Session B2 
                    Active Microwave - II  
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              | 3:30 - 4:00pm | 
              Afternoon Break  | 
             
            
              | 4:00 - 5:30pm | 
              Session A3 
                AIST Forum on Revolutionary Information Systems Technology & the Impact on Earth Science, Part I  
                (+ forum abstract) 
                 
                With Vipin Kumar, William Norris Professor and Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department,  University of Minnesota (+ bio)  | 
              Session B3  
                    Passive Optical - I  
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              | 5:30 - 6:30pm | 
              Town Hall Meeting 
                with  
                  George Komar, Program Director 
                  NASA Earth Science Technology Office 
                   
                [+ Presentation              (5.5MB, PDF)]  | 
               
             
            
          
            
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              Day 2: Wednesday, June 22 | 
               
            
              | 8:00 - 8:30 | 
              Registration  | 
               
            
              | 8:30 - 9:30 | 
              Crosscutting Session: 
                 
                Carl Wagenfuehrer, NASA ESTO 
                "Proposal Dos and Don’ts and Financial Impacts" 
                [+ Abstract / + Presentation (>1MB, PDF)] 
                and 
                David Long, NASA ESTO 
"Budget Execution at the Earth Science Technology Office"  
                [+ Abstract / + Presentation (>1MB, PDF)]  | 
               
            
              | 9:30 - 10:00 | 
              Morning Break   | 
               
            
              | 10:00 - 12:00pm  | 
              Session A4 
                Technology Approaches to Key Data Challenges: Uncertainty, Fusion, and Mining  | 
              Session B4  
                Passive Microwave  
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              | 12:00 - 1:30pm  | 
              
                 
                  Luncheon  
                    with  
                      Richard Terrile, Director 
                      Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design 
                      at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
  + Bio / Abstract 
                   
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              | 1:30 - 3:30pm  | 
              Sessions A5 & A6  
                AIST Forum on Revolutionary Information Systems Technology & the Impact on Earth Science, Part II  
                 
                (+ forum abstract) 
                With Jack Kaye, Associate Director for Research within the NASA Earth Science Division, and other featured speakers. 
                (An ad hoc break will be provided) 
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              Session B5 
                Passive Optical - II  
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              | 3:30 - 4:00pm | 
              Afternoon Break  | 
               
            
              | 4:00 - 6:00pm | 
              Session B6 
                Passive Optical - III 
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              | 6:00pm | 
               Adjourn  | 
               
           
            
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