I invite your participation in the 2006 CLASS Users' Workshop - set for August 7 and 8, 2006. Below is a listing of the current agenda. The venue is located in the NIST Auditorium located at 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado.
CLASS is the Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System, designed to provide long-term archive and access to NOAA's satellite data, plus other satellite data holdings NOAA has responsibility for.
The First CLASS Users' Workshop was held in August of 2005 at NCAR in Boulder. The workshop was well attended and had representatives from all the major scientific disciplines expected to be using data from CLASS. There was wide agreement from the participants that CLASS needed to incorporate API's to facilitate large volume data extractions. It was clear that the scientific community would like to work with NOAA to review and discuss data discovery tools, metadata, and data formats options.
The purpose of the 2006 workshop is to provide: 1) an update on the developments and planning within CLASS, 2) review and discussion of the NRC panel report on NOAA data archiving, 3) a report back on CLASS' API development, 4) review and discussion of data format and granule preferences for NPP data, and 5) and opportunity for the scientific community to ask questions and provide suggestions for consideration by CLASS. For information about CLASS, see
http://www.osd.noaa.gov/class/. To review the current CLASS data access system, see
http://www.class.noaa.gov/.
If you are interested in registering for the workshop, please contact
Janet Brown. Please distribute this announcement to others who you think may be interested in attending.
If you have comments or suggestions on the agenda - please send them to:
Chris Elvidge
chris.elvidge@noaa.gov
Earth Observation Group
NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center
