First Meeting Report
of the

Working Group on Future Space-based

Hydrology Missions

held

August 3-4, 2000
Greenbelt, MD

Report prepared by Simpson Weather Associates, Inc.,
Charlottesville, VA
Telephone: (804)979-3571; Fax: (804)979-5599
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September 2000

CONTENTS

Agenda
Notes from Meeting
List of Attendees

NOTE: A complete hardcopy of the meeting report is available upon request from Simpson Weather Associates.

For questions or comments regarding this report please contact either Dave Emmitt (mailto:(gde@swa.com) or Mary Morris (mailto:(mvm@swa.com).

Working Group on Future Space-based Hydrology Missions
(First Meeting)

3-4 August 2000
Greenbelt, MD

AGENDA

3 August

8:00-8:30 am Continental breakfast

8:30-9:00 am Opening remarks and overview of meeting objectives - Emmitt

9:00-9:15 am LSHP perspective on WG formation (near term funding opportunities) - Jasinski

9:15-9:30 am USGS perspective on the WG (USGS/NASA Workshop) - Yorke

9:30-9:45 am NOAA/OH perspective on the WG - Koren

9:45-10:00 am Overview of the HydraSat document - Vorosmarty

10:00-10:15 am Status of HydraSat related work at GSFC - Birkett

10:15-10:30 am Overview of JPL SAR developments related to HydraSat - Safaeinili

10:30-11:00 am Break

11:00-11:30 am Scenario C: Notional concept of a Doppler lidar to measure surface currents - Emmitt

11:30-11:45 am Development of methods to estimate in-bank river discharge from remote data sources - Bjerklie