Welcome to the Summer Meeting for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)! The 2017 theme is Strengthening Ties Between Observations and User Communities. The theme is based on one of the goals in the 2015 - 2020 ESIP Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for ESIP’s activities over the next three years.
Federal agencies and big companies both struggle at times in taking the big ideas coming out of research and development and turning them into operational reality. This session will pose some of these challenges from different sectors with real world use cases, ask participants to brainstorm how the activities going on in ESIP can potentially address these challenges, and work together to come up with a project to test the ideas in followup actions from the ESIP summer meeting.
