Minutes for Telecon for May 21, 2002

Present: Churchwell, Watson, Meade, Whitney, Stolovy, Indebetouw,
Babler, Wolfire, Benjamin, Clemens, Marston, Mathis, Ashman

Next telecon: Tuesday June 4, 2002, 11 am CDT, 608-265-1000 #4112


On Monday Ed, Barb & Remy sent the team their latest versions of the
Power Point presentations for the SSC Review on May 24.

Also on Monday Barb, Remy and John M. sent the team the latest drafts
of the Science Data Products Document, Science and Data Requirements 
Document and the Observing Strategy Validation Document.
Comments about the 3 documents should be sent to Barb, John & Remy.
The 3 documents will be handed out at the Review.


Power Point Presentations

Dan emailed detailed comments for each of the Power Point presentations.

Delivery schedules

The M16 ERO is close to the science validation observation. It would
be ~40 min AOR (15' field).  There is a short time between the end of our
validation obs and when our first segment might be observed. 
It might take about 10 days after the end of our verification obs
to get the data from the SSC.  We also need to be aware of GO schedules
when planning the segments.
SSC will reprocess all the data at the end of Year 1.
We need a consensus on what our schedules are for delivery of the
science products.  GBSC every 3 months?  How much interest will there be
in getting the mosaic images out quickly?  SSC will produce mosaic
images on an AOR basis.

Pipeline/Mosaicer

How much detail do they want to know on the pipeline? We will try out 
both the SSC and IRSA mosaicers.  What do we want from the SSC
mosaicer?  We should tell them what we need and when we need it.
They have a schedule posted on the Legacy website of the post-BCD 
pipeline products and schedules for what products will have what
capabilities when.  We submitted some data to the SSC awhile ago
and have received data back from them which was run through
their mosaicer. Haven't had the time to look at it closely.  They
commented that we had very little overlap between images. 
Remy may travel there this summer to get more info about the
post-BCD pipeline programs and bring beta versions back for
us to use.  The public release of the SSC mosaicer v6.2 will be
in September.

Remy's presentation

Suggestion to add a slide about the truth image and the method and process
of the C & R before going to into the graphs. and to not talk as much
about ch 4 since it's the poorest channel.  Focus on the positives.
It's important to have good reliability.  We may need to back off
on magnitude requirements in bands 3 & 4.  Maybe we can flag objects in the
particular bands so we can keep our magnitude limit.

Want a positive start and positive end to the presentations.

Note: New AORs using SPOT v6.0 need to be submitted by June 14.