Agenda

 

 

 

 

Time

Session/Title

Presenter

Presentation

  DAY 1
  Welcome    
  Objectives of Workshop Irfan Azeem (NOAA SWO) Presentation
  Review of Research and Operational Needs of Thermospheric Density Products
  Operational needs Tzu-Wei Fang (NOAA) Presentation
  Thermospheric Density Products Using LEO POD
  End-to-end process on deriving densities Christian Siemes & Jose van den IJssel (TU Delft) Presentation
  Break    
  Research status on density estimation Eric Sutton (University of Colorado) Presentation
  Estimation of satellite drag parameters and mapping to density Jian Yao (St. Louis University) Presentation
  Lunch    
  Engineering and Physics Approaches for Density Derivation
  Radiation pressure modeling Marek Ziebart (U College London) Presentation
  Satellite drag coefficient modeling Piyush Mehta (West Virginia University) Presentation
  Gas-surface interaction Marcin Pilinski (University of Colorado LASP) Presentation
  Break    
  Discussion and Document Preparation
  Working group discussion and input    
  Reception Mesa Lab Damon Room  
  DAY 2
  Validation and Verification of Thermospheric Density Estimates
  MAVEN accelerometer data vs. in-situ density measurements Shane Stone (NASA GSFC) Presentation
  Benchmarking and validation of orbit-derived neutral densities Katherine Garcia-Sage (NASA GSFC) Presentation
  Break    
  Plan to operationalization, next steps and concrete path forward    
  Lunch Mesa Lab Cafeteria  
  Closing