The 2MASS project requests that the board specifically comment on the following questions in its report.
1. Are the project's plans for finishing the data taking appropriate?
a. survey scanning progress and strategy
b. auxiliary observations in support of survey validation
c. additional idle time observations
2. Are IPAC's plans for completing the data processing appropriate?
a. reprocessing/improvements to processing
b. data release and public access
9:00 Welcome to IPAC (George Helou) 9:10 Overview and General Project Status (Mike Skrutskie) 9:18 Defining the end of operations (Rae Stiening) 9:20 Long-term Seasonal stability of sites (John Gizis) 9:30 Quality assessment and catalog acceptance criteria (Davy Kirkpatrick) 9:50 Completion of Primary Sky Coverage (Eric Howard) Sky coverage statistics vs. quality scoring Scheduling criteria and strategy for covering remaining sky. Gap filling program. Predicted sky coverage as of November 30, 2000. 10:15 Break 10:30 Status of validation programs and global calibration (Mike Skrutskie) 11:00 Survey data processing (Roc Cutri) Review of data processing approach Why the final uniform processing is critical - Examples of known shortcomings in the current processing 11:30 Final uniform data processing (Roc Cutri) 2MAPPS v3.0 development plans Planned pipeline improvements Schedule and Implementation Final product generation Contingency plan if baseline funding not restored << A working lunch will be brought in during the presentations >> 14:00 Data distribution history and future plans Data releases - Future incremental releases and final release plans (Roc Cutri) << If time permits >> 2MASS Science Publications (Schuyler Van Dyk) 2MASS and IRSA web usage statistics 14:30 Break 14:45 Telescope idle time observation programs (Mike Skrutskie) Nature of "idle time" Available idle time observing modes Ongoing and planned programs Initial results 15:15 Contents of the unreleased Working Survey database of potential interest to the public Low SNR sources below catalog threshold (Mike Skrutskie) Multiepoch coverage in scan overlaps and repeated scans (only a single apparitions of sources are included in data releases) Deep exposure scans Possible release scenarios (Roc Cutri) Resource Issues 16:00 Executive Session Organizational structure of 2MASS in the final phase (Rae Stiening)
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