1. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting Status Review Prasad GFSAD30 monthly meeting, September 25 th, 2014, Webex\Telecon

2. ❖ Field Campaigns: Africa (except West Africa; delay due to Ebola) GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Latest Updates From The Team U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior Murali and Jun

3. ❖ Field Campaigns: Australia GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Latest Updates From The Team U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior Pardha just reached Australia and will do field work over Next one month With idea of developing spectral data bank

4. ❖ Jun Xiong: Has completed identifying croplands of Africa @ 250 m. Need: (a) release product for comments, (b) write ATBT, (c) write paper, (d) release algorithm, (e) work on accuracy assessment strategy (with Kamini and Russ); ❖ Pardha Teluguntla: Has completed identifying croplands of Australia @ 250 m. Need: (a) complete field work, (b) further refine the product on return from field work, (c) release product for comments, (d) write ATBT, (c) write paper, (e) release algorithm, (f) work on accuracy assessment strategy; Pardha’s GCE V1.0 manuscript will be published as book Chapter. This was internally reviewed withing USGS and approved for publication. GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in USGS Flagstaff U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

5. ❖ Justin Poehnelt: LP DAAC: GCE V0.0 and GCE V1.0 release nearing; within 2 weeks? (working with Stacie Benette of USGS EROS); GEE: GCE V0.0 and GCE V1.0 release nearing; within 2 weeks? (working with David Thau of GEE); GFSAD30 web page: updates; should happen soon (Justin working with USGS IT on delays) Croplands.org : should be released before next monthly meeting? (Justin working on new ideas); ……expect announcements from Justin on the above! GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in USGS Flagstaff U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

6. ❖ Richard\Teki: 1.have been working on the croplands of USA @ 250 m for year 2007; 2.Developing automated algorithm to produce all 4 cropland products of GFSAD30 product. Algorithm is supported by USDA CDL data as baseline data; 3.Need to refine and test the algorithm for year 2007 first and then run it on other years. GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in NAU Flagstaff U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

7. ❖ Kamini\Russ: 1.Kamini has shared first draft of her PhD proposal. Currently being edited by Russ, Prasad, and others. Once, finalized there should be clarity on her specific work; 2.Kamini working with Jim Tilton on Hseg for croplands versus no- croplands suing VHRI; 3.Kamini working with Jun Xiong on creating a framework for accuracy assessment globally; 4.Russ and Kamini have a peer-reviewed paper in review. GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in UNH U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

8. ❖ Aparna\Mutlu: 1.Aparna working on 20 odd tiles of Landsat across Europe to come up with a cropland versus no-cropland algorithm; 2.The idea is to extrapolate the algorithm across Europe\their study area (wall to wall) once the algorithm is mature; 3.There is 2009 Europe wide field data (several thousand points) from CORINE. I have suggested, that they use this data to train algorithm for Europe using MODIS 250 m for the corresponding year to field data (year 2009) to come with Europe wide product. GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in UW U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

9. ❖ Jim Tilton: 1.Jim has been refining HSeG to suit cropland’s work; 2.Has started working with Kamini; 3.Has sent outputs to Jun Xiong; 4.Has supported VHRI data access to team through NGA; 5.Jim’s expertise can be better leveraged by the team by being more pro-active. GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in NASA GSFC U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

10. ❖ Cristina: 1.Working on cropland mapping algorithm based on linear mixture model; 2.Nigeria is the focus area; 3.Continue to support the team on NASA NEX; 4.Cristina’s expertise can be better leveraged by the team members by working with him and getting advice on a number of issues (whether building algorithm, testing products, or getting her involved as co-author of manuscripts) GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in NASA Ames U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

11. ❖ Giri: 1.Has provided the team with 500 land use\land cover global test site data for validation; 2.Chandra’s expertise can be better leveraged by the team members by working with him and getting advice on a number of issues (whether building algorithm, testing products, or getting him involved as co-author of manuscripts) GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Progress in USGS EROS U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

12. ❖ Everyone: 1.When data and\or products become available, we need to share them with the team with proper documentation: Examples: Jun Xiong’s Landsat 30 m continental mosaics; Ground data: Murali’s, Pardha’s, earlier Mutlu’s; New data: example, Richard’s USA croplands data points; pardha’s field data 2. Access to team through GFSAD30 is being worked out. 3. Ignore my recent data principles emails at your own peril!. GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Data Principles U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

13. ❖ What everyone has to target: ➢ Products: e.g., cropland maps, one for each product; statistics; ➢ Peer-reviewed papers: must go to top 3-4 RS Journals; ➢ Algorithms: need to release with products and papers; ➢ ATBTs or Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document: need to release this with products; ➢ Presentations: need to be comprehensive and clear. ……it is your responsibility to get this going for your study area ……expectation is everyone has the above during the January meeting for the respective study areas…..be leaders and not followers! GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) Current Status (re-emphasis: can not re-emphasize enough) U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior

14. ❖ What everyone has to target for the January Reston workshop (re-emphasis!): ➢ Products: e.g., cropland maps, one for each product; statistics; ➢ Peer-reviewed papers: must go to top 3-4 RS Journals; ➢ Algorithms: need to release with products and papers; ➢ ATBTs or Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document: need to release this with products; ➢ Presentations: need to be comprehensive and clear. ……it is your responsibility to get this going for your study area ……expectation is everyone has the above during the January meeting for the respective study areas…..be leaders and not followers! GFSAD30 Monthly Meeting (Sept. 25, 2014) January Reston Workshop is Approaching! U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of Interior