Notes from Dr. Agwu, ECSU 
              Dr. Gisner: Marine Mammals  
                -Synthesis of data sets  
                -Web-based data systems  
             
            Environmental consequences of underwater sound 
               
              -Hearing 
              -Enabling technologies  
              -Ecosystem assessment  
              -A risk modeling and simulation tool 
            ESME Components  
              1. Modeling and simulation architecture  
              2. Sound ??? and propagation loss  
              3. Biological models 
            Dr. Sun: Conceptual Data 
            POES SST product 
            Data Processing Software  
              -Data acquistion  
              -Data Usage 
            Dataset Utilties  
            ??? Utility 
             
              Future Plan: 
              Develop an optimal interpolation object analysis scheme to produce 
              coastal SST climatologies in the US coastal areas. 
            Dr. Francisco San Juan 
            Coastal Habitat Protection Plan 
            Plan: Collect and integrate existing fisheries, habitat, 
              and other 
              related data, including:  
            -Past and present spawning and nursery areas 
             
            Critical Fish Habitats:  
              -Freshwater, esturine and marine areas  
              -One of the ??? areas to be studied 
              Chowan River Basin  
              Northeast NC  
              Southeast VA 
            Focus of CHPP Chowan Student  
              -Linkages between Fisheries and habitats 
              -Indicators of biological or ecosystem habitat and integrity  
              -Status and trends measurements  
              -Evaluation threats to habitat ???  
              -Use remote sensing to implement the above 
            How?  
              -One of the capability of RS is studying the environment 
            Remote Sensing Plan of Study  
              -Develop a comprehesive background database for the Chowan River 
              Basin  
              -Determine the Availability of LANDSAT-7  
              -Use digital remote sensing techniques to identify specific ??? 
              ??? on images ??? the study area 
            Dr. R. Bernstein 
            HRPT/??? System 
            POES and NPOESS - National Polar Orbiting Environmental 
              Satellite System. 
            The transistion of a new generation of operational 
              polar orbiting environmental satellites 
            EOS and NPOESS Sensors  
              -Visible/Infrared Images  
              -Infrared ??? 
              -Microwave Imaging/Sounding 
            Resolution:  
              >From 1000m to 250m is a huge jump - makes a remarkable difference. 
            TeraScan SX-EOS OMC from Seaspace 
            Recommentations  
              -Establish long-term linkages with one or more orgs. with existing 
              systems  
              -Build linkages based ??? 
            -use ??? ??? software tools and ???  
              -exchange facilities, students 
            Sensing and System Division 
            ONR 
            Charles Luther 
            Mission  
            -Involvement in professional societies 
            Geoscience and Remote Sensing 
            Society -->IEEE  
              -Theories and ??? ??? remote sensing as it applies to oceans, etc. 
            June 25-28 Toronto, Canada 
            Call for papers 
            Sponsors Students participating in conferences  
              -Abstract  
              -Publishable papers in the conference proceedings 
            Coastal Observations and Remote Sensing 
            Dr. Gisner 
            Marine Mammals: 
            Synthesis of data sets 
              Web-based data systems 
            Marine mammals 
            Environmental Consequences of Underwater Sound 
            -Hearing  
              -Enabling Technologies  
              -Ecosystem Assessment  
              -A risk modeling and Simulation Tool 
            ESME Components 
            1.Modeling and Simulation ???  
              2.Sound ??? and propagation loss ??? 
              3.Biological models 
            TTS-based risk determination: 
            Criteria and Threshold 
            Why use a dual intention? 
            Model Subsystems 
            ??? cochlear models  
              Head models 
            Tuned-fat to conduct sound from water to the ??? 
            Average value representation low pass filter 
            Gridded Density Estimates: to capture the ??? in the 
              data 
            Summary 
            The ONR program today: 
              ESMI  
              ECOUS 
            functional uses of ??? by ???  
              environmental correlates ??? ??? and ??? 
            Future Directions: 
            Evoked potential ???  
              Remote Sensing and predictive modeling 
            Dr. Charles Sun (NOAA) 
            Coastwatch Data 
            Coastwatch SST Products 
            Coastwatch makes product available by  
              -ocean surface winds ocean  
              -color 
            POES SST product 
            Spatial resolution: 1 or 4 kilometer resolution 
            Temporal Resolution: Combined coverage of the two 
              polar orbiting satellites provides coverage of any given area approximately 
              every six hours 
            Data Processing Software 
            -Data Acquistion 
              -Data Usage 
              -How do you decode Coastwatch Data 
            Dataset Utilies 
              -get a dimension 
              -get attribute 
              -get values 
              -calculate 
            Plotting Utility 
              Plot GIF: ??? Coastwatch data into GIF 
            Future Plan: 
            Develop an optimal interpolation (Object Analysis) 
              scheme to produce coastal SST climatologies in all US coastal areas. 
            Charles Luther 
            Focus 
              -Involvement in professional societies 
            Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 
              -IEEE 
              -Theories and application of remote sensing as it applies to oceans, 
              etc. 
            Conference: 
              June 25-28 
              Toronto, Canada 
              Call for papers 
             
             
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