Version: 2016-02-29 2016 GSICS Data & Research Working Groups Meeting






Mon am Mini Conference am







Chair: Larry Flynn






8:45

Coffee and Registration








9:00 Tim Hewison EUMETSAT Introduction to Mini Conference & GSICS 1a 0:20






9:20 Chu Ishida JAXA Welcome to JAXA 1b 0:10






9:30 Yoshiteru Kitamura JMA Welcome address 1c 0:10






9:40 Dave Doelling NASA CLARREO Pathfinder 1d 0:20






10:00 Rob Roebeling EUMETSAT FIDUCEO - Defining FCDR uncertainties 1e 0:20






10:20 Coffee break 0:30






10:50 Hu Xiuqing "Scott" CMA Progress on ground-based lunar observations 1f 0:20






11:10 Fred Wu NOAA Lunar radiance calibration 1g 0:20






11:30 Toru Kouyama AIST Lunar calibration based on SELENE/SP data 1h 0:20






11:50 Lunch Break 1:10 Fixed slot





Mon pm Mini Conference pm







Chair: Misako Kachi






13:00 Fougnie Bertrand CNES Toward a wider use of the moon for in-flight characterization 1i 0:20






13:20 Seongick Cho KIOST Operation and Calibration of GOCI 1j 0:20






13:40 Hiroshi Murakami JAXA Himawari-8 Ocean Color and Aerosol 1k 0:20






14:00 Yukio Kurihara JAXA Himawari-8 SST 1l 0:20






14:20 Hiroshi Murakami JAXA Calibration activities of GCOM-C/SGLI 1m 0:20






14:40 Kei Shiomi JAXA Calibration activities of GOSAT & GOSAT-2 1n 0:20






15:00 Coffee break 0:30






15:30 Takeo Tadono JAXA Calibration activities of ALOS/AVNIR2 PRISM 1o 0:20






15:50 Takeshi Motohka JAXA Calibration activities of ALOS-2/PALSAR 1p 0:20






16:10 Takeshi Masaki JAXA Calibration activities of TRMM & GPM Radars 1q 0:20






16:30 Marehito Kasahara JAXA Calibration activities of GCOM-W/AMSR2 1r 0:20






16:50 Ralph Ferraro NOAA Intercalibration on ATMS and SAPHIR 1s 0:20






17:10 Shengli Wu (Remote) CMA Intercalibration on the FY3/MWRI 1t 0:20






17:30 Takashi Maeda JAXA Intercalibration of AMSR2 and PMRs 1u 0:20






17:50 Likun Wang NOAA New SNO LoS based fast/acccurate algorithm 1v 0:20






18:10 All
Discussion
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18:30 END






19:00 Bus departure time



















Tue am Plenary - Reports







Chair: Dohyeong Kim






8:45

Coffee and Registration








9:00 All
Round Table Introductions + Logistics Info
00:20






9:20 Doheyong Kim KMA Agree Agenda & Minute Taking 2a 00:10






9:30 Larry Flynn? NOAA GCC Report 2b 00:20






9:50 Masaya Takahashi JMA GDWG Report 2c 00:20






10:10 Coffee break 0:30






10:40 Tim Hewison EUMETSAT GRWG + IR Sub-Group Briefing Report 2d 00:20






11:00 Dave Doelling NASA GRWG VIS-NIR Sub-Group Briefing Report 2e 00:15






11:15 Rose Munro EUMETSAT GRWG UV Sub-Group Briefing Report 2f 00:15






11:30 Ralph Ferraro NOAA GRWG Microwave Sub-Group Briefing Report 2g 00:15






11:45 Lunch Break 1:00 Fixed Slot





Tue pm Plenary - Reports & Briefs







Chair: Tim Hewison






12:45 Misako Kachi JAXA JAXA Agency Report 2h 00:20






13:05 Arata Okuyama JMA JMA Agency Report 2i 00:20






13:25 Bertrand Fougnie CNES CNES Agency Report 2j 00:20






13:45 Hu Xiuqing "Scott" CMA CMA Agency Report 2k 00:20






14:05 Sebastien Wagner EUMETSAT EUMETSAT Agency Report 2l 00:20






14:25 Coffee break 0:30






14:55 Tim Hewison for A.K. Sharma IMD IMD Agency Report 2m 00:20






15:15 Pradeep Thapliyal (Remote) ISRO ISRO Agency Report 2n 00:20






15:35 Dohyeong Kim KMA KMA Agency Report 2o 00:20






15:55 Jack Xiong NASA NASA Agency Report 2p 00:20






16:15 Fangfang Yu NOAA NOAA Agency Report 2q 00:20






16:35 Tom Stone USGS USGS Agency Report 2r 00:20






16:55 Larry Flynn GCC Defining GSICS Products, Deliverables, Maturity 2s 00:30






17:25 Dave Doelling NASA Naming convention of GSICS products 2t 00:20






17:45 Manik Bali GCC GSICS Procedure for Product Acceptance 2u 00:20






18:05 Dave Doelling NASA GSICS Websites' Requirements 2v 00:20






18:25 Rob Roebeling EUMETSAT Recalibration Terminology 2w 00:20






18:45 END






19:00 Working Groups' Reception - Restaurat Ange 2:15






21:15 Bus departure time



















Wed am GRWG: Plenary Wed am GDWG

Chair: Dohyeong Kim
Chair: Masaya Takahashi
9:00 Tim Hewison GRWG GEO-Ring Test Dataset 3a 00:15 9:00 Peter Miu EUMETAST GDWG Baseline Reviews - Website 5a 0:20
9:15 Rob Roebeling EUMETSAT Discussion: GEO-Ring dataset preparation 3b 00:15 9:20 Masaya Takahashi JMA GDWG Baseline Reviews - products meta-data and structures 5b 0:20
9:30 Discussion All Discussion: GEO-Ring dataset analysis 3c 00:15 9:40 Yuanzheng "Jordan" Yao NOAA New GSICS Wiki 5c 0:20
9:45 Dave Doelling NASA SBAF Tool - including hyperspectral deserts 3d 00:30 10:00 Coffee break 0:10
10:15 Coffee break 00:20






10:35 Manik Bali NOAA Selecting GSICS References: IR, VIS and MW 3e 00:30 10:10 Manik Bali NOAA Mirroring GSICS Products at NOAA 5d 0:20
11:05 Tim Hewison GRWG Primary GSICS or Key Comparison References? 3f 00:20 10:30 Peter/Manik/Thomas EUM/NOAA/CMA Collaboration GSICS servers (e.g. Proposed sync tool for collaboration servers) 5e 1:30
11:25 Tim Hewison GRWG Do we need to generate Prime GSICS NRTCs? 3g 00:20 12:00



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11:45 Rose Munro EUMETSAT Plans for AVHRR inter-calibration 3h 00:20 12:00



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12:05 Lunch Break 1:00 12:00 Lunch Break 1:00 Flexible
Wed pm GRWG: IR Sub-Group - Chair: Tim Hewison Wed pm Chair: Peter Miu
13:05 Xu Na (Remote) CMA GEO-LEO IR Progress at CMA 3i 00:15 13:00 Sebastien Wagner EUMETSAT Technical aspects of the GIRO work: inputs from GRWG 5f 0:30
13:20 Munn V. Shukla (Remote) ISRO GEO-LEO IR Progress at ISRO 3j 00:15 13:30 Hyunjong Oh KMA Repository for GSICS Work - use of gitHub for codes etc 5g 0:50
13:35 Arata Okuyama JMA GEO-LEO IR Progress at JMA 3k 00:15 14:20



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13:50 Dohyeong Kim KMA GEO-LEO IR Progress at KMA 3l 00:15 14:20



0:00
14:05 Yuanzheng "Jordan" Yao NOAA GEO-LEO IR Progress at NOAA 3m 00:15 14:20



0:00
14:20

Tour of JAXA
2:00 14:20

Tour of JAXA
2:00 Fixed 14:20-16:20
16:20 Xiangqian "Fred" Wu NOAA Handling Diurnal Cycle in GEO-LEO IR 3n 00:15 16:20 Yousuke Ikehata JAXA Introduction to JAXA Data Distribution Service - G-Portal/DPSS 5h 0:30
16:35 Arata Okuyama JMA GEO-LEO IR regression method & variables 3o 00:30 16:50 Peter Miu EUMETSAT GDWG ToR 5i 2:00
17:05 Denis Jouglet (Remote) CNES Hyperspectral IR comparisons - including TANSO-FTS/2 3p 00:20 18:50



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17:25 Likun Wang NOAA IR Reference Sensor Traceability and Uncertainty 3q 00:20 18:50



0:30
17:45 Manik Bali NOAA SRF Retrievals 3r 00:20 19:20



0:00
18:05 Tim Hewison/Tobin EUMETSAT CLARREO preparations 3s 00:20 19:20



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18:25 Aisheng Wu NASA Development of LEO-LEO IR Products 3t 00:20 19:20



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19:00 Bus departure time
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Thu am GRWG: VIS/NIR General Thu am GDWG

Chair: Dave Doelling
Chair: Peter Miu
9:00 Aisheng Wu NASA MODIS calibration summary presentation 4a 0:20 9:00 Masaya Takahashi JMA Updating Action Tracking way 6a 0:30
9:20 Jack Xiong NASA VIIRS calibration summary presentation 4b 0:20 9:30 Manik Bali NOAA Data versioning updates, Document Management System, MW standards 6b 1:00
9:40 Lin Chen CMA Assessment VIS-NIR calibration of VIIRS and MODIS based on Dunhuang site 4c 0:20 10:30 Coffee break 0:30
10:00 Coffee break 0:30 11:00 Rob Roebeling EUMETSAT Calibration Event Logging - Landing page, Standards and nomenclature 6c 1:30

GRWG: VIS/NIR Lunar Chair: Sebastien Wagner 12:30 Manik Bali NOAA A Unit testing suite for GSICS SNO 6d 0:30
10:30 Tom Stone USGS ROLO developments & schedule 4d 0:20 13:00



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10:50 Arata Okuyama JMA Application of GIRO to NIR bands 4e 0:20 13:00



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11:10 Sebastien Wagner EUMETSAT Status of GIRO policy, infrastructure & inter-cal study 4f 0:20 13:00



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11:30 Discussion All Way forward on lunar inter-calibration 4g 0:20 13:00



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11:50 Fred Wu/Fangfang Yu NOAA Lunar surface target selections & auto-mapping 4h 0:20 13:00



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12:10 Discussion All Future of Lunar radiance modelling 4i 0:20 13:00



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12:30 Lunch Break 1:00 13:00 Lunch Break 1:00 Flexible
Thu pm GRWG: VIS/NIR DCC and Other Methods Thu pm GDWG

Chair: Dave Doelling
Chair: Masaya Takahashi
13:30 Masaya Takahashi GDWG Format for GSICS VIS/NIR products & Plotting 4j 0:30 14:00 Masaya Takahashi JMA GDWG Baseline Reviews - tools e.g. product plotting tool 6e 0:30
14:00 Lin Chen CMA Progress toward DCC Demo product 4k 0:10 14:30 Peter Miu EUMETSAT New GSICS tools - netCDF generation tool and file checker 6f 1:00
14:10 Sebastien Wagner EUMETSAT Progress toward DCC Demo product 4l 0:10 15:30

Coffee break
0:30
14:20 Arata Okuyama JMA Progress toward DCC Demo product 4m 0:10 16:00 Masaya Takahashi JMA Format for GSICS VIS/NIR products/plotting - Requirements from GRWG 6g 1:00
14:30 Hyesook Lee KMA Progress toward DCC Demo product 4n 0:10 17:00 Peter Miu EUMETSAT DOIs - Information presentation to inform other GPRCs how EUMETSAT is using DOIs for GSICS products and documentation 6h 0:30
14:40 Fangfang Yu NOAA Progress toward DCC Demo product 4o 0:10 17:30 Masaya Takahashi JMA Wrap-up: Plan activities for 2016/2017 6i 0:30
14:50 Discussion All (+DD) Outstanding issues on DCC algorithm, Demo products & GPPA, Journal article 4p 00:40 18:00



0:00
15:30 Coffee break 0:20 18:00



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15:50 Bertrand Fougnie CNES Combining Methods 4q 0:20 18:00



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16:10 Discussion All (+SW) Discussion: Update freq, weighting, 4r 0:20 18:00



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16:30 Discussion All (+XX) Discussion: Migration of reference instrument 4s 0:20 18:00



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16:50 Larry Flynn UVSG Reference Solar Irradiance Spectra 4t 0:20 18:00



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17:10 Discussion All (+BF+FY) Discussion: Next method - Rayleigh v Ray-matching 4u 0:20 18:00



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17:30 Discussion All Wrap-up: Plan activities for 2016/2017 4v 0:20 18:00



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18:30 END 18:00 END
19:00 Bus departure time



















Fri am Plenary - Briefs and De-briefs







Chair: Ralph Ferraro






9:00 Rob Roebeling EUMETSAT Event Logging Update 7a 0:20






9:20 Manik Bali GCC Strawman User Requirements’ document 7b 0:20






9:40 Manik Bali GCC User Survey 7c 0:20






10:00 Coffee break 0:30






10:30 Dohyeong Kim KMA GRWG Summary & Agree Actions 7d 0:40






11:10 Peter Miu EUMETSAT GDWG Summary & Agree Actions 7e 0:40






11:50 Lunch Break 1:10 fixed 11:50-12:50





Fri pm Plenary - Wrap-up







Chair: Doheyong Kim






13:00 Tim Hewison EUMETSAT Workshop on best practices on pre-flight and onboard calibration 7f 0:20






13:20
GCC GSICS Quarterly Special Issues/Editors 7g 0:20






13:40
GCC User Interaction & 2016 Users Workshop 7h 0:20






14:00 All
Topics & Chairing next Web Meetings 7i 0:20






14:20 All
Date & Place of Next WG Meetings 7j 0:20






14:40 All
Any Other Business 7k 0:20






15:00 END






15:30 Bus departure time