GSICS Annual Meeting 2023
	27th Feb - 3rd March 2023
	NCWCP , College Park, MD, USA
Plenary Mini Conference
Chair: Fangfang Yu, NOAA
Time	Topic	Presenter
7:30	Coffee, posters and orientation
8:30	GSICS Welcome	Mitch Goldberg, NOAA
8:40	NOAA Welcome	Doug Howard,NOAA
8:50	Intro. to Mini Conference	Fangfang Yu,NOAA
9:00	Logistics information	Larry Flynn,NOAA
9:10	Monitoring of FY-3E Instruments' performances using RTM and NWP data	Fangli Dou,CMA
9:30	Feedback MODIS to VIIRS L2 Products Continuity (TBD)	Robert Levy, NASA
9:50	QA4EO : Applying metrological principles	Emma Woolliams, NPL
10:10
10:40	Developing QA4EO: Comparisons as a system and steps towards metrological approaches	Emma Woolliams, NPL
11:10	Planning Continuity for Critical Earth Observations	Betsy Weatherhead, Jupiter
11:30	OCO-2/3: Unique Challenges of Trace Gas Spectrometers	Rob Rosenberg, NASA
11:55	The CO2M mission - overview and status of Cal/Val planning	Ruediger Lang, EUMETSAT
13:30	NOAA-21 cal/val overview	Changyon Cao, NOAA
13:50	ESA Cal/Val Strategy for Optical Land-Imaging Satellites: Overall Approach and Pathway towards Interoperability	Fabrio Niro, ESA
14:10	The error budget for satellite radiance assimilation	Andrew Collard, NOAA
14:30	CRTM science updates and accuracy improvements for satellite-based sensor simulation	Ben Johnson, NOAA
14:50
15:20	Image Navigation and Registration Assessment for ABI at NOAA STAR	Vladimir Kondratovich, UMD
15:40	Merging satellite data to create long-term records	Betsy Weatherhead, Jupiter
16:00	MICMICS: an advanced infrastructure dedicated to the radiometric monitoring of EUMETSAT-operated missions	Mounir Lekouara, EUMETSAT
16:20	Feedback from ISCCP-NG	Andrew Heidinger, NOAA
	DISCUSSION
Plenary Agency Reports Session					UVN Spectrometer Break Out Session
Chair: FangFang Yu: Minutes:					Chair: Larry Flynn: Minutes:
Time	Agency	Presenter			Time	Title	Presenter
7:30	NOAA Agendy Report	Larry Flynn(NOAA)			13:30	CMA OMS pre-launch calibration & instrument performance	Yuan Li, CMA (Remote)
7:35	CMA Agency Report	Chengli Qi, CMA (remotely)			13:45	TropoMI Calibration	Melanie Coldewey-Egbers, DLR (Remote)
7:50	CNES Agency Report	Elsa Jacquette, CNES (remotely)			14:00	Changes in observed straylight in TROPOMI	Antje Ludewig, KNMI (Remote)
8:05	JAXA Agency Report	Hiroshi Murakami, JAXA (remotely)			14:15	GOME-2 End of Life tests	Alessandra Cacciari, EUMETSAT (Remote)
8:20	ISRO Agency Report	Pradeep Thapliyal, ISRO (remotely)			14:30	ESA FDR4ATMOS project	Melanie Coldewey-Egbers DLR (Remote)
8:35	WMO	Heikki Pohjola,WMO (remotely)			14:45	OMPS Calibration	Banghua Yan, NOAA
8:50	IMD Agency Report	Ashim Mitra, IMD (remotely)			15:00	GEMS Calibration and Solar	Mijin Eo, EWHA
9:05	JMA Report	Arata OKUYAMA, JMA			15:15	EPIC Calibration	Jay Herman (Remote)
9:20	EUMETSAT Report	Mounir Lekouara, EUMETSAT			15:30	Break
9:35	ESA Report	Philippe Goryl ,ESA (Remotely/recorded)			15:45	TEMPO Calibration	Xiong Liu, CFA (Remote)
9:50	KMA Report	Jiyong Kim, KMA			16:00	OMI and TropoMI V2 solar records	Sergey Marchenko, SSAI/NASA
					16:15	Inter-calibration approaches for GEMS	Yeeun Lee, EWHA
10:30	NASA Agency Report	Jack Xiong, NASA			16:30	OCO-3/GEMS XCO2 and NO2 Near-Simultaneous Observations	Thomas Kurosu, NASA/JPL (Remote)
10:45	NIST Agency Report	Stephen Maxwell, NIST			16:45	V8TOz as a transfer standard	Larry Flynn, NOAA
11:15	NOAA Agency Report	Fred Wu, NOAA
12:15	USGS	Tom Stone, USGS
12:30	Proposed revision of GSICS Product Class to include VNIR channels and new GEO-LEO IR algorithms	Tim Hewison/Seb Wagner , EUMETST (remotely)
12:45	Requirements for GSICS Plotting Tool to accommodate revision product classes	Tim Hewison,EUMETSAT
IR Breakout Session					Space Weather Break Out Session
Chair: Likun Wang					Chair: Tsutomu Nagatsuma: Minutes: xxx
Time	Title	Presenter			Time	Title	Presenter
					14:00	ESA Assets and Intercalibration Capability	Piers Jiggens ESA (Remote)
8:00	GSICS IR Group Activities and Future Plan	Likun Wang, UMD			14:15	Space Weather Observation related to SWARM and SMOS missions	Raffaele Crapolicchio ESA (Remote)
	Sensor Calibration and Status				14:30	Intercalibration of electron flux measurements, on-going results and lessons-learnt	Ingmar Sandberg SPARC
8:10	FY-4B/AGRI accuracy and monitoring	Xingwei He/Zhiwei Wang , CMA (remotely)			14:45	Space Weather Products for the Satellite Industry	Terry Onsager NOAA (remote)
8:30	FY-3/HIRAS and FY-4/GIIRS status and future plan	Lu Lee (R)			15:00	Cross Calibration between Himawari-8/SEDA and GOES-16/SEISS	Tsutomu Nagatsuma NICT
8:50	Main Outcome of the IASI-A End of life activities	Dorothee Coppens, EUMETSAT (R)			15:15	Seasonal and yearly intercomparison results of electron flux between geostationary satellites	Dae-Hyeon Oh KMA (remote)
9:10	GEO-GEO Radiance Inter-Calibration of INSAT-3D with MSG-SEVIRI	P Rawat & Pradeep Thapliyal, ISRO (Remotely)			15:30	FY-3E/X-EUVI calibration improvements and applications	Qiao Song/Jinping DUn CMA (remote)
9:30	10 minutes Coffee break				15:45	Initial observation with the TriIPM on the FY3E satellite	Qian Song CMA (remote)
	Inter-calibration Algorithms				16:00	About Space Weather Subgroup	Tsutomu Nagatsuma NICT
9:40	GEO-LEO thermal emissive bands comparison method	Tiejun Chang and Jack Xiong, NASA			16:15	Discussion
10:00	SNO analysis of AIRS/IASI/CrIS	Dave Tobin, UW
10:20	GEO-LEO algorithm v2	Tim Hewison, EUMETSAT
10:40	Discussion: Moving Forward for inter-calibration Algorithms	All			GDWG Breakout Session
11:00	10 minutes Coffee break				Chair: Kamaljit Ray Minutes: Manik Bali/Paolo Castrane
	Climate Data Records					Title	Presenter
11:10	IASI L1 CDR new release	Bertrand Theodore, EUMETSAT (remotely)			8:30	Welcome Message	Kamaljit Ray ( Chair GDWG)
11:30	SSU CDR status and Future Plan of Merging with AIRS and CrIS	Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA			9:00	CMA GDWG Report	Tian Lin (Remote)
	Lunch Time (1200-1330)				9:15	IMD GDWG Report	Kamaljit Ray
	GEO-GEO Inter-calibration				9:30	ESA GDWG Report	Paolo Castrane
13:30	GEO-GEO analysis of Himawari-8/9 parallel observation	K. Kodera and A. okuyama, JMA			10:15	JMA GDWG Report	Arata Okuyama
13:50	GEO-GEO inter-comparison for GOES ABI IR channels	Fangfang Yu,NOAA			10:30	KMA GDWG Report	Tae-Hyeong OH
14:10	GEO-GEO inter-calibration algorithm with Parallax Correction	Likun Wang, UMD			10:45	Landing Pages	Rob Roebeling
14:30	Discussion: Moving Forward for GEO-GEO inter-calibration	ALL			11:00	NOAA Report	Manik Bali (UMD)
	10 Minutes Coffee Break				11:15	Discussion [ White Paper ]	Manik Bali (UMD)
	Inter-calibration Research
15:00	LEO-LEO: SLSTR+AVHRR results	Tim Hewison, EUMETSAT
15:20	Straylight Rejection for ABI 3.7 um channel	Hui Xu & Fred (Xiangqian) Wu, NOAA
15:40	Progress Report ICVS activities related to GSICS	Ninghai Sun
16:00	Validation of a model of the disk-integrated Lunar radiance in the thermal IR channels	Martin Jörg Burgdorf, U Hamburg
16:20	Summary of 3.9 channel inter-calibration bias	Likun Wang, UMD
16:40	Wrap	Likun Wang, UMD
VIS/NIR Breakout Session					Microwave Breakout Session
Chair: Dave Doelling						Chair: Qifeng Lu and Mark Liu
Time	Title	Presenter			Time	Tiltle	Presenter
	New channel and sensor calibration Session				7:30	Opening Address to MW Subgroup Attendees	Qifeng Lu and Mark Liu [P]
7:30	FY-3E/SIM-II on-orbit performance	Jin Qi, CMA				Technical Presentations
7:50	SNPP/NOAA20 VIIRS performance	Jack Xiong, NASA			7:35	SI-Traceable Microwave TB Targets Development at BIRMM	Chunyue Cheng [P] (BIRMM)
	BREAK				7:50	Calibration improvement of MWTS on FY-3D and FY-3E	Juyang Hu [P] (CMA)
	Multi-Sensor Continuity/Harmonization Session				8:05	FY-3E/WindRAD instrument status and calibration accuracy evaluation	Mei Yuan [P](CMA)
8:20	CLARREO status	Raj Bhatt, NASA			8:25	Atmospheric humidity and temperature sounding from the CubeSat TROPICS mission	John Yang [P] (UMD)
8:40	TRUTHS status and CEOS WGCV summary	Thorsten Fehr, ESA			8:45	NOAA-21 ATMS Performance Report	Ninghai Sun [P] (NOAA)
9:00	FDR4VGT: towards a 20+ years harmonised data record of land surface reflectances derived from VGT-1, VGT-2 and Proba-V sensors	Marta Luffarelli, Rayfrence			8:55	TROPICS lunar data processing	Juliana Chew [P]NOAA (MIT/LL)
9:20	GOES-FCDR	Jessica Matthews, NOAA				Past Status and Accomplishments
9:40	MODIS and VIIRS cloud property retrieval continuity	Kerry Meyer, NASA			9:05	ESA microwave activities - GSICS 2023 report	Raffaele Crapolicchio [P] (ESA/ESRIN Serco)
10:00	Impact analysis of new JMA atmospheric reanalysis data on the vicarious calibration by RTM using water clouds	Misaki EIKI, JMA				Open Action Review
	Coffee Break				9:35	Review of past year open action items	Siena Iacovazzi [P]
	Visible and DCC calibration strategies					Planning for the Year
10:40	Radiance Comparison from OCO-3 and OCO-2 Simultaneous Nadir Observations (SNOs)	Thomas Kurosu, NASA/JPL			10:00	Individual agency contributions to MW Subgroup	Qifeng Lu [FD]
11:00	Moving from MODIS to VIIRS: evolutions of EUMETSAT implementation of the GSICS DCC algorithm	Seb Wagner, EUMETSAT			10:15	Collaboration between agencies as part of the MW Subgroup	Qifeng Lu and Mark Liu [FD]
11:20	Evaluation using the DCC & Ray-matching method and SNPP & N20/VIIRS through parallel observation of Himawari-8/9	Kazuki KODERA, JMA			10:45	Establishing MW Subgroup GSICS products	Qifeng Lu and Mark Liu [FD]
11:40	Discussion of GSICS DCC VIS calibration to GSICS product	Dave Doelling,NASA			11:15	GSICS MW Subgroup Meetings and/or Workshop	Qifeng Lu and Mark Liu [FD]
12:10	Lunch				11:25	MW Subgroup Co-Chair changes	Qifeng Lu and Mark Liu
	GSICS DCC product strategy Session				11:30	MW Breakout Session Adjourns
13:30	Implementation of the GSICS DCC NIR methodology to product	Raj Bhatt, NASA				Hybrid Meeting Virtual Attendance Information
	Lunar Session
14:00	EUMETSAT activities in 2022: outcome of the measurement campaign with S3 and MSG1 end-of-life tests	Seb Wagner, EUMETSAT
14:20	Status of the Lunar Irradiance Model of ESA (LIME)	Agnieszka Bialek, ESA
14:40	Using the Moon for MODIS and VIIRS Reflective Solar Bands Calibration Inter-comparison	Jack Xiong, NASA
15:00	Coffee Break
15:20	air-LUSI - First Operational Campaign	Kevin Turpie, NASA
15:40	Lunar Calibration Activities at USGS-EROS	Sandy Preaux, USGA
16:00	ARCSTONE In VEST project	Costy Lukashin, NASA
16:20	Comparing SLIMED with GIRO using ABI	Bikash Basnet, NOAA
16:40	Discussion: Implementing SLIM as a GSICS lunar model	All
16:40	Introduction functional requirements and modular approach	T. Stone (USGS), H.Kieffer (Cel. Reasonings
Time	Title	Presenter
7:30	GDWG Report	Kamaljit Ray (IMD)
7:45	GRWG IR Report	Likun Wang (UMD/NOAA)
8:00	GRWG MW Report	Qifeng Lu (CMA) and Mark Liu (NOAA)
8:15	GRWG Vis/NIR Report	Dave Doelling (NASA)
8:30	GRWG SWx Report	Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT)
8:45	GRWG UVN Report	Larry Flynn (NOAA)
9:00	GCC Report	Larry Flynn (NOAA)
9:15	Users' Workshop	Larry Flynn (NOAA)
9:30	New Action Items & Items that can be closed	Manik Bali (UMD/NOAA)
10:00	Next meeting and chairs	Fangfang Yu (UMD/NOAA)
10:15	4th Joint GSICS/IVOS lunar calibration workshop	Seb Wagner (Eumetsat Remote)
11:00	GSICS and CEOS WGCV	Philippe Goryl (remotely)
12:00	OSCAR Workshop and Landing Pages	Manik Bali (UMD/NOAA)