GSICS Annual Meeting 2023
27th Feb - 3rd March 2023
NCWCP , College Park, MD, USA
Plenary Mini Conference
Chair: Fangfang Yu, NOAA
Tim
e
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 (Remot
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 O
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-SEVI
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
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
2 March 2023 / 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
NASA
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 vi
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 M
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 InVEST 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
Remot
11:00
GSICS and CEOS WGCV
Philippe Goryl
(remotely)
12:00
OSCAR Workshop and Landing
Pages
Manik Bali
(UMD/NOAA)