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• Earthzine Call for Papers -- Applied Sciences edition for March 20-June 21, 2013
  • Earthzine.org, an IEEE-sponsored online scientific journal, is soliciting articles of 800-3,000 words for its second 2013 quarterly theme on Applied Sciences. We seek contributions from all regions of the globe, addressing programs and research related to integrating satellite remote-sensing data and model output into applications and decision support systems that support global change issues and policy.
    
    This theme specifically focuses on ways to prepare applications programs, decision-support systems and Earth science models to use measurements from upcoming missions such as NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), ICESat-2, Global Precipitation Mission (GPM), ESA's EarthCare, ADMAeolus, SWARM, the Sentinel series, EumetSat's next generation Metop and MeteoSat, and others.
    
    Queries to editors may be sent at any time; original articles and other content will be accepted until June 1.
    
    Guest Editor: Dr. Molly E. Brown, molly.brown at nasa.gov
    Please visit http://www.earthzine.org/2013/01/26/call-for-papers-applied-sciences/ for a copy of the papers call.
    
    
• Workshops:
• Earth Observing Missions Applications Workshop: In February 2010, the Applied Sciences Program and Flight Program conducted a workshop to discuss applications community perspectives and needs for Earth observing satellites and determine approaches to facilitate applications perspectives in mission planning and advocacy. The workshop provided a forum to explore lessons learned from the Earth Observing System-era (1999-Present), technical challenges to achieving the application goals, and preparations for future missions, especially Decadal Survey missions (2014 - circa 2030). Roles and responsibilities of users and other agencies as well as their interfaces into the missions were discussed. This workshop is considered the first in a series of dialogues to maximize the return and minimize the cost of future missions for our national interest. Click here to view the results of the Earth Observing Missions Application Workshop.
  
  Full Workshop information can be found here.