NRC Active Sensing Committee

February 10-11, 2014

Washington, D.C.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Location: Room 101, Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 5th St, NW, Washington, DC

All presentation titles below are provisional and only intended to be placeholders

* speaker to be confirmed

Closed Session
8:30 a.m. / Breakfast available
9:00 / Welcome and Opening Remarks / Fawwaz Ulaby, Chair
Open Session
9:15 / Summary of the observations and conclusions from the last meeting / David Lang, NRC
10:45 / Break
11:00 / Another perspective on the future of wireless communications networking / Paul Kolodzy,
Committee member
12:00 p.m. / Working lunch
Closed Session
1:00-5:15 / Reports from the Chapter Leads (30 min. each)
1:30: Ch 3. Introduction (Ulaby, Fisk)
2:00: Ch 4. Remote sensing of the atmosphere (Cruz-Pol)
2:30: Ch 5. Remote sensing of the ocean (Jones, Colton)
3:00: Break
3:15: Ch 6. Remote sensing of the land (Gasiewski)
3:45: Ch 7. Radar astronomy (Ulaby for Campbell)
4:15: Ch 8. Terrestrial radar (Bristow, Palmer, Avery)
4:45: Ch 9. Spectrum issues (Kolodzy, Bazelon)
5:15 / Break for working dinner
6:00 / Working dinner / Poste Moderne Brasserie located at 555 8th Street, NW. Located inside of the Hotel Monaco. You can enter the restaurant on the F Street or the 8th Street side of the Hotel Monaco or through the hotel
8:00 / Adjourn for the day

Tuesday, February 11, 2014Location: Room 101, Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 5th St, NW, Washington, DC

Closed Session
8:30 am / Breakfast
9:00 / Reports from the Chapter Leads (30 min. each)
9:00: Ch 10. RFI (Spencer, Herd, Bazelon)
9:30: Ch 11. Technology and RFI mitigation
(Kolodzy, Paschen)
10:00 / Outstanding issues / David Lang, Study Director
10:20 / Break
10:30 / Report completion strategy / Fawwaz Ulaby, Chair
11:30 / Discussion of the next meeting: topics and speakers / Fawwaz Ulaby, Chair
12:00 pm / Working lunch
1:00 / Adjourn meeting