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Goal
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Core team
Harvey Honner-white | Alana Baczewski | Sameer Farrell | Mia Bednarczyk |
Roadmap
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this test of the EarthCARE Validation Portal.
Introduction to the EarthCARE mission
EarthCARE will measure the 3D structure of cloud and aerosols, together with collocated observations of solar (shortwave) and terrestrial (thermal) radiation. For this purpose, the satellite carries four scientific instruments, two active instruments – a lidar and a radar – to measure the vertical distribution of clouds and aerosols, an imager to collect cloud and aerosol information across the satellite ground track and a broadband radiometer for measuring outgoing reflected solar and emitted thermal at the top of the atmosphere.
EarthCARE Validation
The geophysical validation of EarthCARE involves a suite of correlative instruments and methods. This portal provides an overview of the validation activities and support functions for the validation teams.
The scientists in the EarthCARE validation team will collaborate with ESA algorithm and instrument experts and will be provided with preliminary EarthCARE data products as soon as available, hence well before public release of the consolidated data products.
Scientists that want to collaborate are requested to contact esa-ecvt@earthcare.esa.int
News
- The EarthCARE launch date has been set to September 2022. Further news on the mission status can be found here (Mission Status)
Resources
- The Scientific Validation Implementation Plan (not yet available)
- The (restricted) portal for the ESA EarthCARE Validation Team Principal Investigators
- The reference documents of the EarthCARE Validation Announcement of Opportunity (now closed, but you can still contact esa-ecvt@earthcare.esa.int in case you are interested in collaboration)
- The report of the 1st ESA EarthCARE Validation Workshop held in June 2018 in Bonn, Germany
- The ESA Atmospheric Validation Data Centre (EVDC)
- [Links to already existing overpass and visualisation tools, placeholder for future tools]
Know your spaces
Everything your team is working on - meeting notes and agendas, project plans and timelines, technical documentation and more - is located in a space; it's home base for your team.
A small team should plan to have a space for the team, and a space for each big project. If you'll be working in Confluence with several other teams and departments, we recommend a space for each team as well as a space for each major cross-team project. The key is to think of a space as the container that holds all the important stuff - like pages, files, and blog posts - a team, group, or project needs to work.
Know your pages
If you're working on something related to your team - project plans, product requirements, blog posts, internal communications, you name it - create and store it in a Confluence page. Confluence pages offer a lot of flexibility in creating and storing information, and there are a number of useful page templates included to get you started, like the meeting notes template. Your spaces should be filled with pages that document your business processes, outline your plans, contain your files, and report on your progress. The more you learn to do in Confluence (adding tables and graphs, or embedding video and links are great places to start), the more engaging and helpful your pages will become.
Learn more by reading Confluence 101: organize your work in spaces
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Useful links
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Confluence 101: organize your work in spaces | Chances are, the information you need to do your job lives in multiple places. Word docs, Evernote files, email, PDFs, even Post-it notes. It's scattered among different systems. And to make matters worse, the stuff your teammates need is equally siloed. If information had feelings, it would be lonely. But with Confluence, you can bring all that information into one place. |
Confluence 101: discuss work with your team | Getting a project outlined and adding the right content are just the first steps. Now it's time for your team to weigh in. Confluence makes it easy to discuss your work - with your team, your boss, or your entire company - in the same place where you organized and created it. |
Confluence 101: create content with pages | Think of pages as a New Age "document." If Word docs were rotary phones, Confluence pages would be smart phones. A smart phone still makes calls (like their rotary counterparts), but it can do so much more than that |
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