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        
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 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 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 Remote)        
11:00 GSICS and CEOS WGCV Philippe Goryl (remotely)        
12:00 OSCAR Workshop and Landing Pages Manik Bali (UMD/NOAA)