Agenda GSICS Annual Meeting and Executive Panel Meeting 2025
Meeting Minutes here
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17-Mar-25 | Welcome | | | | | | |
Chair: Xiuqing (Scott) Hu | | ID | | | | | |
Time | Topic | Presenter | | | | | | |
8:00 | Arrival and Check-In | | | | | | | |
8:30 | Welcome Address from CIOMP | Xuejun Zhang (CIOMP) | 1a | In Person | | | | |
8:35 | Welcome and GSICS introduction | Jun Yang (CMA) | 1b | In Person | | | | |
8:45 | GRWG Approval of Agenda | Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) | 1c | In Person | | | | |
8:50 | Logistics information and Photo | Duo Wu (CIOMP) | 1d | In Person | | | | |
Mini Conference | | | | | | |
9:05 | FY-4C mission status | Feng Lu (CMA) | 1e | In Person | | | | |
9:25 | Absolute Measurement System for Terrestrial Reflected Spectral Radiance | Xin Ye (CIOMP) | 1f | In Person | | | | |
9:45 | Research Progress on Infrared Benchmark Payloads | Lei Ding (SITP) | 1g | In Person | | | | |
10:05 | Early Performance of FY-3G/HAOC and Cross Calibration Test to other Sensors | Lu Lee/Xiuqing Hu (CMA) | 1h | In Person | | | | |
10:25 | Radiometric calibration using artificial intelligence | Boyang Chen (CMA) | 1i | In Person | | | | |
10:45 | Break | | | | | | |
11:05 | EarthCARE Cal/Val activities | Paolo Castracane (ESA) | 1j | In Person | | | | |
11:25 | MTG-I1 entry into operational phase and MTG-S status | Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat) | 1k | In Person | | | | |
11:50 | GDWG Report | Paolo Castracane (ESA) | 1l | In Person | | | | |
12:15 | GRWG Report | Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat) | 1m | In Person | | | | |
13:00 | Lunch | | | | | | |
17-Mar-25 VIS/NIR + Lunar Breakout Session | | | | 17 March 2025 Space Weather Breakout Session |
Session Chair: Mounir Lekouara and Tom Stone | | | | | Session Chair: Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) | Presenter |
Time | Topic | Presenter | ID | | | Time | Topic | Presenter |
13:30 | Global Pseudo-Invariant Pixels (GPIPs) Selection: A Big Data Approach for Radiometric Calibration | Junwei Wang (CMA) | 2a | In Person | | 13:30 | GOES-19 MPS-HI Calibration: The Newest GOES Radiation Belt Instrument | Athanasios Boudouridis (NOAA) |
13:50 | FY-3F MERSI-III Reflective Solar Band On-orbit Calibration Methodology and Performance | Ling Wang (CMA) | 2b | In Person | | 13:50 | GOES 16-19 Solar and Galactic Proton Sensor (SGPS) Cross-Calibrations During Oct-Nov 2024 SEP Events | Brian Kress (NOAA) |
14:10 | Current status of KMA VIS/NIR Calibration: Long-term Analysis of Five years | Hanbyul Lee (KMA) | 2c | Virtual | | 14:10 | FengYun-3H/WAI-II Prelaunch Test Results and The Calibration Approach In-orbit | Yafen Yang (CMA) |
14:30 | Current status of transition from MODIS to VIIRS for AHI vicarious calibration | Misaki Eiki (JMA) | 2d | In Person | | 14:30 | ADITYA-L1 MISSION OF INDIA AND CROSS-CALIBRATION OF ASPEX | Dibyendu Chakrabarty (PRL) |
14:50 | Harmonization of SPOT-VGT1, SPOT-VGT2, and PROBA-V Time Series, Including Per-Pixel Uncertainty: Status of the FDR4VGT Project | S. Sterckx (ESA) | 2e | Virtual | | 14:50 | In-orbit calibration and flux monitoring comparison of the Solar X-EUV imager on the Fengyun-3E satellite | Bowen Gong (CIOMP) |
15:10 | Break | | | | | 15:10 | Multi-Point Geostationary Observations of Major 2024 Space Weather Events: Data from GK2A, Himawari-9, GOES-16 and -18 | Daehyeon Oh (KMA) |
15:30 | TRUTHS mission | Nigel Fox (NPL) | 2f | Virtual | | 15:30 | Long Term Variation of Cross-calibration results between Himawari8/SEDA and GOES16/MPS-HI | Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) |
15:40 | Intro to the Lunar Subgroup Session + Update on MLO-LUSI | Tom Stone (USGS) | 2g | Virtual | | 15:50 | Cross-calibration of ESA Radiation Monitors | Ingmar Sandberg (SPARC) |
15:50 | Challenges to calibrate MTG/FCI VIS/NIR channels with lunar observations | Sebastien Wagner (EUMETSAT) | 2h | Virtual | | 16:10 | Discussion | |
16:10 | Update on LSICS Development | Tom Stone (USGS) | 2i | Virtual | | 16:30 | End of the session | |
16:30 | LESSR v2.0: an advanced new lunar reflectance model for monitoring spaceborne instruments with moon observations | Matthijs Krijger (Earth Space Solutions) | 2j | Virtual | | 16:45 | | |
16:50 | Lunar Discussion | All | 2k | | | 18:00 | END of Day 1 | |
17:10 | END of Day 1 | | | | | | | |
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18:30 | Welcome Dinner | | | | |
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18-Mar-25 VIS/NIR + Lunar Breakout Session Contd | | | | | | |
Session Chair: Dave Doelling | | | | | | | |
Time | Topic | Presenter | | | | | | |
8:00 | Intro to the VISNIR Subgroup Session | David Doelling (NASA) | 4a | Virtual | | | | |
8:10 | Globally combining new GEO Lightening Mapper sensors | Daile Zhang (UND) | 4b | Virtual | | | | |
8:30 | Validation and evaluation of the FY-4 Lightning Mapping Imager products | Wenjuan Zhang, Fuxiang Huang (CMA) | 4c | In Person | | | | |
8:50 | Monitoring the FCI VIS-NIR and LI Radiometric Performance Using Vicarious Calibration and Inter-Calibration | Ali Mousivand (EUMETSAT) | 4d | In Person | | | | |
9:10 | Break | | | In Person | | | | |
9:25 | VIIRS DCC stability monitoring improvements and validating the scaling of Himawari-8 with VIIRS | David Doelling (NASA) | 4e | Virtual | | | | |
9:45 | Application of DCC Calibration Technique on FengYun imagers | zhangbei (CMA) | 4f | In Person | | | | |
10:05 | VIS/NIR discussion | All | 4g | | | | | |
10:20 | Break | | | | | | | |
11:00 | Challenges and Lessons Learned in Vicarious Desert Calibration: A Critical Review | Ali Mousivand (EUMETSAT) | 4i | prerecorded | | | | |
11:20 | Toward the improvement of Ray-matching inter-calibration for AHIs on Himawari-8 and -9 | Masaya Takahashi (JMA) | 4j | In Person | | | | |
11:40 | Future of the EUM VIS-NIR GSICS products | Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) | 4k | In Person | | | | |
12:00 | Lunch | | | | | | | |
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18 March 2025 IR Breakout session | | | | 18 March 2025 GDWG Additional Session |
Session Chair: Chengli Qi | Minutes: Likun Wang | | | | Time | Topic | Presenter |
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13:30 | Welcome Remarks and Review for IR Groups | Chengli Qi (CMA) | 5a | In Person | | 16:00 | GSICS Data and Product Server | Luca Garegnani (remotely) |
13:40 | Monitoring the MTG-I1 FCI IR Calibration Using GSICS Inter-Calibration Algorithms | Ali Mousivand (EUMETSAT) | 5b | In Person | | 16:45 | Discussion | All |
14:00 | Current status of AMI IR product | Euidong (KMA) | 5c | Virtual | | | | |
14:20 | The Calibration and Validation System of the Infrared Channels of the FY-3/MERSI | Hanlie Xu (CMA) | 5d | In Person | | | | |
14:40 | On-board Calibration Technology for the Infrared Emission Spectral Bands of Medium-Resolution Spectral Imager | Yang WANG (SITP) | 5e | In Person | | | | |
15:00 | Break | Break | | | | | | |
15:20 | Improvements on Inter-calibration of CrIS and VIIRS | Likun Wang (NOAA/UMD) | 5f | In Person | | | | |
15:40 | Application of new collocation method based on LOS vector to AHI and LEO instruments | Shin Koyamatsu (JMA) | 5g | In Person | | | | |
16:00 | Relative SRF retrieval -Application to Metop IASI | Pierre Dussarat (EUMETSAT) | 5h | Virtual | | | | |
16:20 | Discussion of IR topics | All | 5i | | | | | |
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19-Mar-25 UVN-S Breakout Session I | | | | | 19-Mar-25 Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session |
Session Chair: Rasmus Lindstrot | Minutes: Larry Flynn | | | | Session Chair: Flavio Iterbide | |
Time | Topic | Presenter | ID | | | Time | Topic | Presenter |
8:00 | TEMPO instrument calibration status | Heesung Chong | 6a | Virtual | | 8:00 | Introduction | Shengli / Flavio |
8:20 | Recent OMPS Calibration efforts for NOAA 20 & 21 | Sriharsha Madhavan | 6b | Virtual | | 8:10 | GSICS Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrument Pre-Launch Testing and Post-Launch Characterization (TT) Focus Group Report | Dazhen Gu |
8:40 | NPP & NOAA-20 OMPS Time-Dependent Calibration; update on ACX | Larry Flynn | 6c | Virtual | | 8:30 | MW Radiometer Lunar Calibration Focus Group Report | Tiger Yang |
9:00 | OCO-2 and OCO-3 Radiometric Trends | Rob Rosenberg | 6d | Virtual | | 8:50 | Direct MW Radiometer Inter-comparison Method and Vicarious Calibration Focus Group Report | Tim Hewison |
9:20 | GOSAT serious calibration and intercomparison with multiple GHG sensors | Kei Shiomi | 6e | Virtual | | 9:10 | Hyperspectral COSMIR-H aircraft instrument and the WH²yMSIE campaign | Rachael Kroodsma (NASA) |
9:40 | The Calibration results of the OMS-Nadir onboard FY-3F | Jinghua Mao | 6f | In Person | | 9:40 | Advancements in satellite-based hyperspectral microwave sounding at NASA-GSFC | Antonia Gambacorta (NASA) |
10:00 | In orbit Calibration and Evaluation of FY-3F OMS Limb. | Yuan Li | 6g | In Person | | 10:10 | Prelaunch Performance Evaluation of MWRI-II Onboard FengYun-3H | Pengjuan Yao |
10:20 | An Overview to Pre-launch Calibration of FY-3F OMS-Limb | Haochen Li | 6h | In Person | | 10:30 | The Status of Microwave Radiometer onboard FengYun Satellites | Juyang Hu |
10:40 | Discussion of UVN-S Topics for the Year | All | 6i | | | 10:45 | AMSR3 status | Misako Kachi (JAXA) |
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19-Mar-25 UVN-S Breakout Session II | | | 19 March 2025 Microwave Break out Session |
Chair: Yuan Li | Minutes: Rasmus Lindstrot | | | | Session Chair | |
Time | Topic | Presenter | ID | | | Time | Topic | Presenter |
14:40 | Study on EMI decay monitoring and correction in orbit | Fuqi Si | 8a | In Person | | 14:40 | Highlights of ESA's microwave activities | Raffaele Crapolicchio, ESA |
15:00 | Current status of calibration and validation for GEMS Level 1 Products | Yeeun Lee | 8b | Virtual | | 15:00 | Introduction to the EPS-Sterna inter-calibration study | Tim Hewison |
15:20 | Calibration and validation concept of the CO2I/NO2I instrument on-board the CO2M mission | Bernd Sierk | 8c | Virtual | | 15:20 | Monitoring of FY-3 in-orbit microwave instruments' performances using radiative transfer models and NWP | Fangli Dou (CMA) |
15:40 | Current status of GOME-2 calibration & outlook for Sentinel-4 & Sentinel-5 | Rasmus Lindstrot | 8d | In Person | | 15:40 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 | OMI/TropoMI Status Overview | Deborah Stein Zweers | 8e | Virtual | | 16:00 | Vicarious Radiosonde Calibration Tool - VICIRS | Tim Hewison |
16:20 | DLER database (surface reflectivity.) | Erwin Loots | 8f | Virtual | | 16:20 | Spatio-Temporal Fusion and Selection of pseudo-invariant calibration sites (PICS) Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing of Lunar Observations | Lide Zhu (SDUST) |
16:40 | L1 UVN status update | Erwin Loots | 8g | Virtual | | 16:40 | Update on MWS cal/val plans - postponed to web meeting | Tim Hewison |
17:00 | ESA FDR4ATMOS Project: Status Update and Roadmap | Günter Lichtenberg | 8h | Virtual | | 17:00 | Discussion and Way Forward | All |
17:20 | On-orbit status of FY-3E SSIM UV band | Jin Qi | 8i | In Person | | 17:30 | END of Day 3 | |
17:40 | The Inflight Calibration of the FY-3E SSIM VIS Band | Xiaohu Yang | 8j | In Person | | | | |
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20-Mar-25 IR Breakout Session II | | | | 20 March 2025 GDWG Break out Session |
Session Chair: Likun Wang | Minutes: Chengli Qi | | | | Session Chair: Paolo Castracane and Manik Bali | Presenter |
Time | Topic | Presenter | ID | | | Time | Topic | Presenter |
8:30 | Future of the EUMETSAT GSICS IR products | Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat) | 10a | In Person | | 9:00 | Welcome remarks from GDWG Chair | Paolo Castracane (in person) |
8:50 | FY-4C GIIRS instrument and Level-1 processing introduction | Lu Lee (CMA) | 10b | In Person | | 9:15 | WMO – status of GSICS WMO website | Heikki Pohjola (in person) |
9:10 | Prelaunch calibration of the FY-4 Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder(GIIRS) | Libing LI (SITP) | 10c | In Person | | 9:30 | KMA GDWG Report | Hanbyul Lee (Virtually) |
9:30 | Computing Lunar Geometry for CrIS Observations | Likun Wang (NOAA/UMD) | 10d | In Person | | 9:45 | JMA GDWG Report | Masaya Takahashi (in person) |
9:50 | Innovative Ideas in Lunar Calibration for IR | Martin Burgdorf (University of Hamburg) | 10e | In Person | | 10:00 | CMA GDWG Report - extended talk including CMA Server status | Lin Tian (Virtually) |
10:10 | Break | | | | | 10:30 | IMD GDWG Report | Ashim Mitra. (in person) |
10:30 | Navigation Registration and Radiometric Calibration for Lunar Observation of Geostationary Meteorological Satellites | Peiwen Chen (SDUST) | 10f | In Person | | 10:45 | NOAA GDWG Report | Manik Bali. (in person) |
10:50 | Comprehensive Analysis of the Airborne HIRAS Validation Experiment | Yiqi Zhu (SITP) | 10g | In Person | | 11:00 | EUMETSAT GDWG Report | Simon Elliott (in person) |
11:10 | Research progress of space infrared radiation reference SI-traceability subsystem | Shijie Xin (SITP) | 10h | | | 11:15 | ESA GDWG Report | Paolo Castracane |
11:30 | Plan for next year | All | 10i | | | 11:30 | GSICS Data and Product server (status); Data Conventions and Versioning; SOS Report; Jupiter Notebooks. | Discussion Topic for All |
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20-Mar-25 Agency Reports | | | | | | |
Sesson Chair: Manik Bali | Minutes: | | | | | |
Time | Topic | Presenter | ID | | | | | |
13:30 | Welcome by EP Chair | Bojan Bojkov | 12a | | | | | |
13:36 | CMA Report | Chengli Qi | 12b | | | | | |
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14:00 | NIST Report | | 12d | | | | | |
14:12 | ISRO Report | Pradeep Thapliyal | 12e | | | | | |
14:24 | KMA Report | Eun-Jeong Cha | 12f | | | | | |
14:36 | IMD Report | Ashim Mitra | 12g | | | | | |
14:48 | ESA Report | Philippe Goryl (recorded) | 12h | | | | | |
15:00 | WMO Report | Heikki Pohjola | 12i | | | | | |
15:12 | Break | | | | | |
15:24 | JAXA Report | Misako Kachi (recorded only) | 12j | | | | | |
15:36 | NASA Report | | 12k | | | | | |
15:48 | JMA Report | Masaya Takahashi | 12l | | | | | |
16:00 | USGS Report | Cody Anderson (USGS) | 12m | | | | | |
16:12 | Eumetsat Report | Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat) | 12n | | | | | |
16:24 | NOAA Report | Satya Kalluri | 12o | | | | | |
16:36 | SITP Agency Report | Lei Ding | 12o2 | | | | | |
16:48 | RosCosmos Report | | 12p | | | | | |
17:00 | CNES Report | Caroline Bès / Murielle Lafaye | 12c | | | | | |
17:12 | CEOS WGCV & CGMS GSICS Joint Workshop on Pre-flight Calibration / Characterization | Nigel Fox (NPL) & Jack Xiong (NASA) | 12q | | | | | |
17:32 | SI Traceable Satellite (SITSat) Group Overview | Nigel Fox (NPL) & Yolanda Shea (NASA) | 12r | | | | | |
17:52 | GCC Annual Report | Manik Bali (NOAA / UMD) | 12s | | | | | |
18:00 | Discussion | | 12t | | | | | |
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Report Out, Cross-cutting and Planning (Day 5, AM Fri 21 March) | | | | | | |
Chair: Lawrence Flynn (NOAA), Minutes: Manik Bali (UMD) | | | | | |
Time | Title | Presenter | | | | | | |
8:00 | GDWG Splinter Session Report | Paolo Castracane (ESA) | 13a | | | | | |
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8:36 | Sonde Campaign Report | Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) | 13c | | | | | |
8:51 | CalCon Proposal | Dave Doelling (NASA) & Tom Stone (USGS) | 13d | | | | | |
9:06 | GRWG Lunar Report | Tom Stone (USGS) | 13e | | | | | |
9:24 | GRWG IR Report | Chengli Qi (CMA) & Likun Wang (NOAA / UMD) | 13f | | | | | |
9:42 | GRWG MW Report | Shengli Wu (CMA) & Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez (NOAA) | 13g | | | | | |
10:00 | GRWG Vis/NIR Report | Dave Doelling (NASA) | 13h | | | | | |
10:18 | GRWG SWx Report | Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) | 13i | | | | | |
10:36 | Break | | | | | | | |
10:51 | GRWG UVN-S Report | Larry Flynn (NOAA) & Rasmus Lindstrot (Eumetsat) | 13j | | | | | |
11:09 | CEOS WGCV | Cody Anderson (USGS) | 13k | | | | | |
11:24 | CEOS WGCV & CGMS GSICS Joint Workshop on Pre-flight Calibration / Characterization | Nigel Fox (NPL) | | | | | | |
11:39 | SI Traceable Satellite (SITSat) Group Overview | Nigel Fox (NPL) | | | | | | |
11:54 | New Action Items & Items that can be closed | All | | | | | | |
12:09 | Next meeting and chairs | All | | | | | | |
12:24 | Lunch | All | | | | | | |
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EP Meeting | | | | | | |
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GSICS Executive Panel 25 - AGENDA | | | | | |
Fri 21 March 2025 | | | | | |
13:30 | Opening of the Meeting | 1 | EP Chair B. Bojkov | | | | | |
| Introduction of participants and approval of agenda | 2 | | | | | | |
13:35 | Introduction of participants | 2.1 | All | | | | | |
13:45 | Approval of agenda | 2.2 | EP Chair, all | | | | | |
| Updates to GSICS Membership (if any) | 3 | | | | | | |
13:50 | Updates to GSICS EP membership | 3.1 | EP Chair | | | | | |
| Nominations of working group Chairs | 3.2 | EP Chair | | | | | |
14:00 | Status of GSICS documents and ToRs | 4 | EP rapporteur | | | | | |
| GSICS-RD000_Documentation-Plan.docx | | | | | | | |
| GSICS-RD001 Introduction to GSICS Ver.1.0.docx | | | | | | | |
| GSICS-RD002_Vision.docx | | | | | | | |
| GSICS-RD003 Users' Guide to GSICS Products and Services_Ver.1.1.docx | | | | | | | |
| GSICS-RD004_tor-V2.docx | | | | | | | |
14:20 | State of the Observing system | 5 | All | | | | | |
14:40 | Lunar and Space weather subgroups report on resources | 6 | | | | | | |
15:00 | Review of actions, new actions/ recommendations from the meeting | 7 | EP Chair, GCC | | | | | |
15:20 | Planning Future GSICS Annual Meeting and User Workshop | 8 | GCC (Manik) | | | | | |
15:40 | Any Other Business : Awards and Recognition | 9 | All | | | | | |
| Closing | | EP Chair | | | | | |
| EP-24 Final report with actions: | | | | | | | |
| GSICS-EP-24_Final-Report.pdf | | | | | | | |