ESTF2011 Schedule
Session titles link directly to the session detail within the SESSIONS page.

  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

 

12:00 - 1:30pm


Luncheon
with
Jack Dangermond, President (+ bio)
Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri)
+ Visit www.esri.com

[+ Presentation (59MB, PDF) / + Listen (51MB, mp3)]

1:30 - 3:30pm

Session A2
Science Analysis Frameworks: Sensors, Data Products, Models

 

Session B2
Active Microwave - II

 

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

 

5:30 - 6:30pm

Town Hall Meeting
with
George Komar, Program Director
NASA Earth Science Technology Office


[+ Presentation (5.5MB, PDF)]

 

  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

 

12:00 - 1:30pm


Luncheon
with
Richard Terrile, Director
Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design
at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

+ Bio / Abstract

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)

Session B5
Passive Optical - II

 

3:30 - 4:00pm
Afternoon Break
4:00 - 6:00pm

Session B6
Passive Optical - III

 

6:00pm
Adjourn

 

  Day 3: Thursday, June 23
8:00 - 8:30
Registration
8:30 - 10:00

Session A7
On-Board / In-Situ Processing Environments

Session B7
Active Optical - I

 

10:00 - 10:30
Morning Break
10:30 - 11:00

Session A8
Information Technology Investments from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program

Morning Break
11:00 - 12:00pm

Session B8
Active Optical - II

 

12:30pm
Adjourn