06/05/17 TC

Attendees: Rich Ullman, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Yonsook Enloe, Ananth Rao, Glenn Cunningham, Ed Armstrong, Allan Doyle, Siri Jodha Khalsa, Chris Helm, Sam Bacharach, Jingli Yang

Next SPG ALL telecon : Wed June 21 at 4pm ET

New and Old Action Items:

• April 18 – Larry Sugarbaker will invite Ivan D. from FGDC to speak at the July SPG meeting
• April 18 – Rich Ullman will invite the ESMF program manager to speak at the July SPG meeting
• April 18 – Chris Lenhardt – will identify who from SEDAC and Lamont can speak at the July SPG meeting.
• May 18 – Yonsook will call Chris Lenhardt and ask him about status on SPG speakers from Lamont
• May 19 – Rich will send out a copy of Kathy Fontaine’s ES DSWG year end report (calendar year 2005) to the SPG email list.
• May 26 – Ed Armstrong will invite ocean color data management person working for Gene Feldman, Brian F., to come to July SPG meeting and give a talk
• May 26 – Rich Ullman will talk to the ESMF person at the AGU session next week to invite an ESMF talk at the July SPG meeting
• June 14 – Helen Conover – get status from Michael Goodman about level 2 precip product science content standard – either new leader for the effort or a schedule of the document
• June 14 - Glenn Cunningham – ping Robert Wolfe and check on Surface Reflectance product science content Tech Note and when we can expect that
• June 14 – Ananth Rao – ping Beth Weinstein about the ECHO Tech Note.
• June 20 – Larry Sugarbaker will get an updated status of the FGDC Vegetation Classification spec document.
• June 20 – yonsook will contact Liping Di to see if he is interested in submitting the WCS document as a NASA community standard

Notes/Discussion:

• Rich noted that Elena Pourmal will be at the July SPG meeting.
• Who is coming to SPG meeting – Ed Armstrong, Sam Bacharach, Chris Helm, Jingli Yang, Helen Conover, Ananth Rao, Allan Doyle, Yonsook Enloe, Rich Ullman……any others?
• Allan gave the WMS RFC-006 status. We have received 4 reviews during the operational review phase. Only 1 out of the 4 were from a NASA related system and it was semi-operational. The operational review has been extended to May 31st and the WMS TWG members are actively soliciting additional operational reviews. If we don’t get enough positive operational reviews, then the RFC-006 will be approved as a Tech Note, not a NASA community standard.
• Sam asked what “operational” means. After discussion, it was agreed that it means that it’s being used with NASA data and is used to either distribute significant amount of data or information or used to support a significant number of users; i.e. large number of transactions are involved on a regular basis.
• Sam will call people from the evidence of implementation list and ask them to do an operational review.
• Siri Jodha noted that Jeanne Behnke asked the DAAC managers to send in reviews for the WMS and also for the HDF specs. Not sure why the DAAC managers have not sent anything in.
• Rich talked with the GeoTIFF spec author to invite her to the July SPG meeting. While she is not coming to the meeting, he did find out the status of the GeoTIFF RFC. They are getting the document together. Allan noted that it is not a deadline oriented activity. They are converting the html pages where the GeoTIFF documentation resided to RFC-document input format and correcting/tweaking it as they convert the pages.
• Rich and Ming discussed news from Kathy’s monthly telecon – no list of ACCESS members yet. The Oct meeting of ES DSWG is scheduled for Oct 31 – Nov 2 at the University of Maryland conference center. Kathy will be talking to the HQ to see if the Oct meeting can include HQ studies managers to discuss the ES DS working groups. Rich will send out Kathy’s 2005 (calendar year) year end report to the SPG email list. Ideas for keynote speakers for the Oct meeting are welcomed. One idea is the Univ of Maryland geography department new inductee to the National Academy of Science. Another idea – the new incoming NASA CIO?
• Goals of the SPG this year – this will be discussed at the July meeting – (1) inreach to NASA HQ management (2) work the RFCs in the standards process (3) continue the community outreach.
• For the Oct ES DSWG meeting, how should SPG structure the SPG sessions with the HQ studies managers to get the best interaction? The goals of the SPG sessions with HQ studies managers are to (1) get HQ staff to see SPG as a resource; awareness thing. Want HQ staff to encourage the studies/programs to interact with SPG. (2) want the HQ studies managers to encourage the programs they fund to use the approved list of standards.
• We need 2 way interaction with the HQ studies managers in Oct. Sam suggested a series of demos/showcase, where we can demonstrate the technologies being standardized or being considered for standardization.