What we have in common forms the basis of our collaboration - the focus on the goals developed in our first workshop in San Diego. From there, there is no limit to what we can do.

On December 7th and 8th, 2004, DOC/NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), NASA Science and Aeronautics Research Mission Directorates, and DOE Office of Science sponsored the second in a series of workshops on the Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Global Climate Change Research. Participants from NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Energy gathered together with researchers, scientists, engineers and industry representatives to build upon the work completed in the first workshop.

This session began with a series of presentations about the program objectives of the three agencies, about the requirements for a research program, and about some of the current capabilities of UAVs. The group then became familiar with the 11 science goals developed in the first workshop. Participants expanded upon these missions, clarifying the observations needed for each as well as when and where these observations would need to take place.

The group then looked at the technology and operations as well as the gaps and roadmaps needed to realize these goals. Finally we used a current NASA RFI document to drive some of the groups to put an outline together for a few of the goals while other groups looked at the next steps in the collaboration to move the group to realizing the objective of a global climate change observation system.

Real Time Record
This web site is a record of the event in Boulder. The documentation of the session includes text and images that were captured throughout the course of each day of the session and is chronological (in the order that things happened). Please note: the text is not a transcription of the event. Rather, it represents the documentor's synthesis of the team reports and group discussions. This record is intended primarily as a reminder to the participants of the conversations that took place during the event and serves secondly as a record of the proceedings of the event.

Images
Photographs of participants and their work are included throughout the Real Time Record. To view a larger version of a marker board or foam core board, click on the thumbnail image. The larger image will open in a new window.