GSICS Annual Meeting 2024


11 - 15 March 2024






EUMETSAT,Eumetsat Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany






All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)





Plenary (Mon 11 March)





Chair: Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) . Minute Taker: Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT)





Time Topic Presenter Item #




8:00 Arrival, Registration, Coffee, posters and orientation






9:00 Welcome and GSICS introduction Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) 1a




9:30 Logistics information Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) 1b




Mini Conference





9:35 Mini Conference introduction Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) 1c




9:45 MTG missions status Jochen Grandell (EUMETSAT) 1d




10:15 EPS-SG mission status and MW missions Thiery Marbach (EUMETSAT) 1e




10:45 Break





11:20 Sentinel-3 calibration at EUMETSAT … from L1 to L2 and back Ali Mousivand (EUMETSAT) 1f




11:40 Intercalibration of polarimeters Bertrand Fougnie (EUMETSAT) 1g




12:00 Overview of FY-3G Rainfall Satellite Jian Shang (CMA) 1h




12:20 Indian Oceansat-3 mission Pradeep Thapliyal (ISRO) 1i




12:40 Intro to Himawari-10 and inter-calibration approach Masaya Takahashi (JMA) 1j




13:00 Lunch





14:00 Advances in lunar calibration (WS outcomes) Tom Stone/Sebastien Wagner 1k




14:20 Using commercial data in an operational environment - e.g. RO Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) 1l




14:40 Towards a constellation of thermal infrared sensors for wildfire detection: On the inter-calibration of Forest-2/SAFIRE-2 TIR data Fatima Kahil (Ororatech) 1m




15:00 Discussion / Spare Mini Conference slot
1n




15:20 Break





Plenary Session & Agency Reports





15:30 GRWG Briefing Fangfang Yu 2a
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15:55 GDWG Briefing Kamaljit Ray 2b




16:20 GCC Briefing Larry Flynn 2c




16:45 GSICS State of Observing System (G-SOS) Reports Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) 2d




17:30 END of Day 1






















Plenary Agency Reports Session (Day 2, Tues 12 March)





Chair: Fangfang Yu (UMD) Minutes: Kamaljit Ray (IMD)





Time Agency Presenter





8:30 CMA Agency Report Chengli Qi 2e




8:45 CNES Agency Report (remote) Caroline Bès (remote) 2g




9:00 SITP/CAS Agency Report Lei Ding (remote)? 2h




9:15 ISRO Agency Report Pradeep Thapliyal 2i




9:30 KMA Agency Report Jae-Young Byon 2j




9:45 IMD Agency Report Ashim Mitra 2k



10:00 ESA Report Philippe Goryl 2l




10:15 WMO Report Heikki Pohjola (remote) 2m



 







10:45 JAXA Agency Report Misako Kachi (remote) 2n




11:00 NASA Agency Report Jack Xiong 2o




11:15 JMA Agency Report Masaya Takahashi 2p



11:30 USGS Agency Report Cody Anderson (remote) 2q




11:45 CEOS/WGCV Report Philippe Goryl (ESA) 2s




12:00 NOAA Agency Report Satya Kalluri (Remote) 2t




12:15 EUMETSAT Agency Report Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) 2f




12:30 LEO Calibration Questions for Discussions Lihang Zhou (Remote)/Likun Wang 2u




13:00 End of Day 2 Morning Session














LUNAR Breakout Session (Day 2, Tues 12 March [Afternoon])
Space Weather Breakout Session (Day 2, Tues 12 March [Afternoon])

Chair: Tom Stone: Minutes: ?
Chair: Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) Minutes: Juan Rodriguez (NOAA) Item #
Time Title Presenter
Time Title Presenter

14:00 Results of the GSICS Lunar Model Comparison Exercise Tom Stone (in person) 3a 13:30 On-orbit cross-comparison results of electron flux from Fengyun-4B, GOES-16, and Himawari-8 Jingtian Lv (CMA) [Remote] 4a
14:20 Revisit to LESSR lunar model formulation (LESSRv2) Thijs Krijger (remote) 3b 13:45 Calibration of radiation belt electron data observed by Arase satellite using Geant4 simulation Inchun Park (NICT) [Remote] 4b
14:40 Lunar Irradiance Model of ESA (LIME) Marc Bouvet (remote) 3c 14:00 GOES-R Satellites Radiation Belt Electron Calibration A. Boudouridis (NOAA) [Remote] 4c
15:00 Summary of alternative uses of the Moon from LCWS4 Fangfang Yu (in person) 3d 14:15 GOES Solar Energetic Particle Instrument Cross Calibrations B. Kress (NOAA) [Remote] 4d
15:20 Lunar Spectral Irradiance Measurements from the First Operational Campaign of air-LUSI Kevin Turpie (remote) 3e 14:30 Improvement of bias current subtraction for Himawari-8/SEDA-e observation Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) [in Person] 4e
15:40 Break

14:45 Cross-calibration schemes and recent results Ingmar Sandberg (SPARC) [Remote] 4f
16:00 LSICS development progress update Bikash Basnet (remote) 3f 15:00 PRBEM Standard Data Analysis Procedure Antoine Brunet (ONERA) [Remote] 4g
16:20 Lunar measurements with OCI during the PACE mission Gerhard Meister (remote) 3g 15:15 Coffee Break


16:40 Recent Progress of MODIS and VIIRS Lunar Calibration Truman Wilson (remote) 3h
Discussion


17:00 Update of SNPP, NOAA 20, and NOAA 21 VIIRS RSB Calibration Ning Lei (remote) 3i 15:30 Review from CMA (5min.) Cong Huang (CMA) [Remote] 4h
17:20 Calibration Consistency Assessments of SNPP, NOAA 20, and NOAA 21 VIIRS Aisheng Wu (remote) 3j 15:35 Review from KMA (5min.) Daehyeon Oh (KMA) [Remote] 4i
17:40 CLARREO CPF Mission Overview and Intercalibration Capabilities Rajendra Bhatt (remote) 3k 15:40 Review from NOAA (5min.) TBD (Brian Kress (NOAA)?) [Remote] 4j




15:45 Review from ESA (5min.) Hugh Evans (ESA) [Remote] 4k




15:50 Review from NICT (5min.) Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) [In Person] 4l




15:55 Review from ROSHYDROMET (5min.) Kirill Kholodkov (ROSHYDROMET) [Remote] 4m




16:00







17:00












IR Breakout Session (Day 3, Wed 13 March)
GDWG Breakout Session (Day 3, Wed 13 March)

Chair: Likun Wang / Minutes: Tim Hewison
Chair: Kamaljit Ray /Co-Chair Manik Bali Minutes: Manik Bali
Item #
 Time Title Presenter
Time Title Presenter












9:00 Welcome remarks from GDWG Chair Kamaljit Ray [ In Person] 6a




9:15 ESA GDWG Report [Paolo Castracane [In-Person] 6b
8:30 Welcome Remarks and Review for IR Groups Likun Wang 5a 9:30 KMA GDWG Report Hanbyul Lee [ Remote] 6c
8:50 HIRAS and GIIRS data quality analysis using PC technics and comparisons to IASI Shin Koyamatsu 5b 9:45 CMA GDWG Report Tian lin 6d
9:10 GOES ABI IR midnight calibration variation detected with GEO-GEO Inter-calibration Fangfang Yu 5c 10:00 IMD GDWG Report R. K Giri / Kamaljit Ray 6e
9:30 On-orbit characteristics monitoring and analysis of Fengyun-4 AGRI infrared channels Xingwei He (remotely) 5d 10:15 ISRO GDWG Report Pradeep Thapliyal [ In-Person] 6f
9:50 Assessment and Dynamic Correction of Spectral Calibration of FY-3D/HIRAS Chengli Qi 5e 10:30 NOAA GDWG Report Manik Bali [ in-Person ] 6g
10:10 20 Minutes Coffee Break

10:45 LSICS Data Conventions and Versioning Masaya Takahashi [ In-Person] 6h
10:30 FY-4B GIIRS / Metop-IASI Inter-comparison Pierre Dussarrat 5f 11:00 G-SOS Report Genration[ Data and Code ] Manik Bali [ in-Person ] 6i
10:50 Thermal radiance model for Moon and Mercury Kay Wohlfarth (remotely) 5g 11:15 Discussion GDWG Cross Cutting Topics[ WIS, Lunar, Standard Operating Procedure, GenAI] All 6j
11:10 Checking the radiometric stability of CrIS with the Moon Martin Burgdorf 5h


6k
11:30 Re-calibration results of COMS/MI and GK2A/AMI Euidong Hwang 5i




11:50 Merging of SSU Observations with AIRS toward Extending Stratospheric Temperature Climate Data Records Likun Wang 5j


12:10 Improvements in the Current SNO method for ABI-CrIS over hot land within ICVS Framework Xin JIn (remotely) 5k UVN-S Breakout Session (Day 3, Wed 13 March)


12:30 Discussion of GSICS SOS Reports All 5l Chair: Larry Flynn Minutes: Rasmus Lindstrot

13:00


Time Title Presenter

Lunch Time (1300-1400)

CET
c Confirmed r Remote

14:00 Review of Inter-calibration Algorithm issues Tim Hewison 5m 13:30 7.a GOSAT Update cr Kei Shiomi (JAXA) 7a
14:20 Ongoing GEO-LEO IR algorithm studies - Insights on FCI Vincent Debaecker 5n 13:50 7.b Current Status of Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) c Kyunghwa Lee (NIER) 7b
14:40 Revisit to AHI GEO-LEO-IR Regression Masaya Takahashi 5o 14:10 7.c Inflight Performance of the FY-3F OMS instruments c Qian Wang (CMA) 7c
15:00 Defining Warm Radiance Scenes and simple model for Parallax Uncertainty Tim Hewison 5p 14:30 7.d Status & calibration concepts of the CO2I/NO2I instrument of the Copernicus CO2M mission c Bernd Sierk (Eumetsat) 7d
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15:40 20 Minutes Coffee Break
5r 15:10 7.f TropoMI SWIR Validation cr Tim van Kempen (SRON) 7f

Group Discussion

15:25 7.g TSIS-1 Solar Reference Validation Study cr Julian Gröbner (PMOD/WRC) 7g
16:00 Algorithms Improvements and the way forward All 5s 15:40 7.h TEMPO Calibration cr Heesung Chong (SAO) 7h
16:30 Chair Transition and Plan for next year All 5t 16:00 7.i Deep Convective Cloud Monitoring for OMPS cr Ding Liang (GSTI) 7i
17:00 Meeting Ends
5u 16:20 7.j Enterprise V8TOz as a Transfer Standard c Larry Flynn (NOAA) 7j



5v 16:40 7.k TropoMI UVN c Erwin Loots (KNMI) 7k



5w 17:00 7.l OCO-2 and OCO-3: Mission Status and Calibration Improvements cr Rob Rosenberg (NASA) 7l



5x 17:10 7.m OCO-3 Oxygen A-Band In-Band Spectral Shape Corrections cr Graziela Rodrigues (NASA) 7m



5y 17:30 7.n FDR4ATMOS Project c Günter Lichtenberg (DLR) 7n




17:45 Discussion All










VIS/NIR Breakout Session (Day 4, Thurs 14 March)
Microwave Breakout Session (Day 4, Thurs 14 March)

Chair: Dave Doelling (NASA) Minutes: ? 3cont Co-Chairs: Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez (NOAA) and Shengli Wu (CMA) Minutes: Siena Iacovazi

Time Title Presenter
Time Tiltle Presenter [R - Remote] [IP - In-Person]





8:30 GSICS MW Subgroup Annual Report Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez (NOAA) [R] and Shengli Wu (CMA) [IP] 8a
8:30 Current status of KMA Lunar Calibration Hanbyul Lee (remote) 3l 8:50 Technical Presentations


8:50 Lunar research activities at CMA Scott Hu (in person) 3m 8:50 ESA Passive Microwave Activities Raffaele Crapolicchio – ESA [R] 8b
9:10 Inter-calibration of Fengyun(FY)-3 VIRR using MERSI based on pseudo-invariant pixels (PIPs) Scott Hu (in person) 3n 9:00 First performance of new generation MWRI onboard FY-3F and FY-3G Shengli Wu – CMA [IP] 8c
9:30 Challenges for AHI Ray-matching in low radiance scenes Kazuki Kodera (in person) 3o 9:15 Microwave brightness temperature model of the Moon and implications for the calibration of meteorological satellite Niutao Liu - Fudan University [R] 8d
9:50 Transition from MODIS to VIIRS for AHI vicarious calibration Misaki Eiki (in person) 3p 9:30 Validation of Microwave Humidity Sounder II and Microwave Temperature Sounder-III onboard FenYun-3F in the post-launch phase Yang Guo – CMA [R] 8e
10:10 20+ years harmonized data record of land surface reflectances from SPOT-VGT-1, VGT-2 and Proba-V sensors Stefan Adriaensen (in person) 3q 9:45 Modelling the Microwave Radiation of the Moon Thomas Mueller - Max Planck Inst [IP] 8f
10:30 Break

10:00 Validation of the Calibrated Microwave Lunar RTM (CMLRTM) by Using N20 and N21 Two-Dimension Moon Observations Hu (Tiger) Yang – Univ. Maryland [R] 8g
10:50 TRUTHS update Thomas August (in person) 3r 10:15 Break


11:10 DCC calibration work, MICMICS Seb Wagner (in person) 3s 10:30 Establishing a MW sensor uncertainty framework for GSICS Jonathon Mittaz - University of Reading [R] 8h
11:30 DCC BRDF netCDF formats and pixel resolution Dave Doelling (in person) 3t 11:00 Focus Group Leader Vision Statements


11:50 Inter-calibration using desert sites Ali Mousivand (in person) 3u 11:00 Direct Microwave Radiometer Inter-Calibration Method (SNO) Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) [IP] and Yang Guo (CMA) [R] 8i
12:10 Discussion of future goal and topics and calibration activities, Rayliegh scattering discussion Dave Doelling (in person) leading discussion 3v 11:10 Microwave Radiometer Vicarious Calibration Shengli Wu (CMA) [IP] 8j
12:45 Photo Session All
11:20 Radiative Transfer Model (RTM) Facilitated Microwave Radiometer Inter-Calibration Ninghai Sun (NOAA) [R] 8k
13:00 End VIS/NIR session

11:30 Tiger Yang (NOAA/UMD) [R] 8l




11:40 Microwave Radiometer Applications Cheng-Zhi Zou (NOAA) [R] 8m




11:50 Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrument Pre-Launch Testing and Post-Launch Characterization Dazhen Gu (NIST) [R] and Juyang Hu (CMA) [R] 8n




12:00 Planning, Action Items, and Closing Statements
8o




12:45 Photo Session All





13:00 Meeting Ends


13:00 Lunch




Report out, Cross-cutting and Planning (Day 5, Fri 15 March)





Chair: Lawrence Flynn (NOAA), Minutes: Manik Bali (UMD)





Time Title Presenter





8:30 9.a GDWG Report c Manik Bali (UMD) 9a




8:50 9.b GRWG Report c Mounir Lekouara(EUM)/Fangfang Yu (UMD) 9b




9:10 9.c GRWG IR Report c Likun Wang (UMD)/Chengli Qi (CMA) 9c




9:30 9.d GRWG MW Report c Shengli Wu (CMA) & cr Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez (NOAA) 9d




9:50 9.e GRWG Vis/NIR Report c Dave Doelling (NASA) + Tom Stone (USGS) 9e



10:10 9.f GRWG SWx Report c Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) 9f



10:30 Break






10:45 9.g GRWG UVN-S Report c Larry Flynn (NOAA) 9g




11:05 9.h GCC Report c Larry Flynn (NOAA) 9h




11:15 9.i Users' Workshops and Surveys c Manik Bali (UMD) 9i




11:25 9.j SI Traceable Satellite (SITSat) Group Overview cr Nigel Fox (NPL) Yolanda Shea (NASA) 9j




11:40 9.k Workshop on Pre-flight Calibration c Jack Xiong (NASA), c Philippe Goryl (ESA) 9k




12:00 9.l WMO Information System (WIS 2.0) c Simon Elliott (EUMETSAT) 9l




12:15 9.m Potential of Pytroll/satpy readers to support harmonisation of product exploitation c Sauli Joro (EUMETSAT) 9m




12:30 9.n New Action Items & Items that can be closed All 9n




12:45 9.o Next meeting and chairs c Fangfang (UMD), c Mounir (Eumetsat) 9o




13:00 Close the meeting