Itinerary

Please review the pre-meeting checklist and background information on the Pre-meeting page to ensure you are prepared for the workshop sessions.

Session 0: Pre-meeting technical support for account logins and data uploads
- Thursday, August 25, 10:00am-11:00am MDT
  - Prerequisites: None
Session 1: Introduction to SCINet with lightning presentations
- Monday, August 29, 10:00am-11:00am MDT
  - Prerequisites: None
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
Session 2: Fundamentals of geospatial data
- Monday, August 29, 11:00am-12:00pm MDT
  - Prerequisites: None
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
Session 3: Fundamentals of parallel processing
- Tuesday, August 30, 2:00pm-3:00pm MDT
  - Prerequisites: None
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
Session 4: SCINet interactive environments
- Tuesday, August 30, 10:00am-12:00pm MDT
  - Prerequisites:
    - Have a SCINet account and be able to login
    - Basic understanding of partitions and requesting cores. If you are unfamiliar with these topics, please attend Session 3 on parallel processing fundamentals.
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
Session 5: SCINet Geospatial Common Data Library
- Tuesday, August 30, 12:30pm-1:30pm MDT
  - Prerequisites:
    - Have a SCINet account and be able to login
    - Basic R or other basic programming skill helpful (expertise not required).
    - Interactive environments will be used, so attending Session 4 may be helpful.
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
  - Written tutortials
Session 6: Geospatial analyses and how to parallelize them in R
- Wednesday, August 31, 11:00am-1:30pm MDT
  - Prerequisites:
    - Have a SCINet account and be able to login
    - Basic R or other basic programming skill helpful (expertise not required)
    - RStudio on Ceres via Open OnDemand will be used, so attending Session 4 may be helpful
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
  - Written tutortials
Session 7: Interactive BYOP session + Open Drone Map demo
- Wednesday, August 31, 2:00pm-3:00pm MDT
  - Prerequisites:
    - Have a SCINet account and be able to login
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
Session 8: Geospatial analyses and how to parallelize them in python
- Thursday, September 1, 10:00am-12:00pm MDT
  - Prerequisites:
    - Have a SCINet account and be able to login
    - Basic python or other basic programming skill helpful (expertise not required)
    - JupyterLab on Ceres via Open OnDemand will be used, so attending Session 4 may be helpful
  - You must have a USDA account to access this workshop's recordings.
  - Session recording
  - Written tutortials
Session 9: Interactive BYOP session
- Thursday, September 1, 2:00pm-3:00pm MDT
  - Prerequisites:
    - Have a SCINet account and be able to login
Session 10: Interactive BYOP session + TBD special topic based on previous sessions' discussions
- Friday, September 2, 10:00am-12:00pm MDT
  - Prerequisites:
    - Have a SCINet account and be able to login
  - Written tutortials
Session 11: Closing discussion and future planning
- Friday, September 2, 12:30pm-1:30pm MDT
  - Prerequisites: None

2022 Geospatial Workshop Itinerary