GEONETCast Event Week 3, 4, 5 December 2013
CIRA, NOAA, WMO, and the WMO Centers of Excellence in Costa Rica, Barbados, Brazil, and Argentina hosted a virtual training on GEONETCast consisting of 3 sessions on December 3, 4, and 5, 2013. The sessions were presented in both English and Spanish.
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Goals:
To make countries/people more aware of what is available.
To expand the use of GEONETCast-Americas.
To start thinking about GOES-R
Tuesday session A) Introduction, operations, and capabilities of GEONETCast (GNC). View the entire session RECORDING
- 1) WMO Space Programme Interest
(Stephan Bojinski, WMO) - Reviewing regional requirements documentation and the need for better integration of regional dissemination systems
(Daniel Vila for Luiz Machado, CPTEC/INPE, Brazil) - GEONETCast: Coverage, products, cost, brief history
(Paul Seymour, NOAA) - Additional Questions and Comments
Wednesday session B) Disaster mitigation products and the importance of GNC as a risk-reducing global data access system entire session RECORDING
- Disaster mitigation: from the perspective of the research and environmental community
(Humberto Barbosa, LAPIS, ICAT/UFAL, Brazil) - Products for forecasting as well as disaster mitigation products from INPE/CPTEC
(Daniel Vila, INPE/CPTEC, Brazil) - Brief examples from current, new, or potential users.
(Kathy-Ann Caesar, CIMH, Barbados - and Ronald Gordon, NMS, Belize
- Additional Questions and Comments RECORDING
Thursday session C) Potential solutions we are looking into. Software and products entire session RECORDING
- Sigma for visualization
(Diego Souza, CPTEC/INPE, Brazil) - McIDAS-V for visualization
(Tom Whittaker, CIMSS, USA) - Introduction to GOES-R
(Bernie Connell, CIRA, USA) - Additional Questions and Comments RECORDING
Thanks for your participation in the event!
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