GRWG/GDWG Web Meeting 2011-01-18

Pre-Operational Readiness Review for GEO-LEO Hyperspectral IR products

Agenda

1.Bob Iacovazzi (NOAA) - Road to Pre-operational Phase Presentation

2.All – Discussion & Feedback

3.Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) – Reminders: Korea, Conference, IVOS, Solar PIs

4.Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) – Next web meetings

Attendees

EUMETSAT: Tim Hewison (chair), Marianne Koenig, Sebastien Wagner

NOAA: Bob Iacovazzi, Fangfang Yu, Fred Wu, Aleksandar Jelenak

CMA: Xiuqing Hu, Jingjing Liu, Lin Chen, Na Xu, Li Yuan

CNES: Denis Blumstein

KMA:Dohyeong Kim, Jun-Dong Park Jun Park

JMAL Hiromi Owada, Yasushi Izumikawa, Orata Okuyama

Summary

Bob Iacovazzi (NOAA) provided a detailed review of the GSICS Procedure for Product Acceptance, highlighting the current status of the products currently in demonstration phase. The impediments to further progress were discussed and a strategy agreed to expedite the process:

• All producers of products currently in Demonstration mode should contact their test users, providing details of access to the products and their documentation, and be proactive in seeking their feedback.
• Tim Hewison to compile a statement on the traceability of IASI as an inter-calibration reference with assistance of NIST, based on material supplied by Denis Blumstein (CNES). The concept for NOAA's products is that AIRS is used as a transfer standard to complement the inter-calibration against IASI as a reference.

In other items:

• Representatives of the IVOS group of CEOS WGCV will be invited to attend parts of the next GSICS meeting - by teleconference if necessary to discuss details of further cooperation between CEOS and GSICS.
• The topics for the next two web meetings will be combined into a single meeting in mid-late February 2011: Common interface for GSICS Bias Monitoring and planning the next meeting in Daejeon.

-- TimHewison - 18 Jan 2011