GSICS Annual Meeting 2025    
Mini Conference
2025-03-17 00:00:00 Welcome
ID
Time Topic Presenter  
08:00:00 Arrival and Check-In
08:30:00 Welcome Address from CIOMP Xuejun Zhang (CIOMP) 1a In Person
08:35:00 Welcome and GSICS introduction Jun Yang (CMA) 1b In Person
08:45:00 GRWG Approval of Agenda Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) 1c In Person
08:50:00 Logistics information and Photo Duo Wu (CIOMP) 1d In Person
 
  09:05:00 FY-4C mission status Feng Lu (CMA) 1e In Person
  09:25:00 Absolute Measurement System for Terrestrial Reflected Spectral Radiance Xin Ye (CIOMP) 1f In Person
 AM 9:45 Research Progress on Infrared Benchmark Payloads Lei Ding (SITP) 1g In Person
  10:05:00 Early Performance of FY-3G/HAOC and Cross Calibration Test to other Sensors Lu Lee/Xiuqing Hu (CMA) 1h In Person
  10:25:00 Radiometric calibration using artificial intelligence Boyang Chen (CMA) 1i In Person
  10:45:00 Break  
11:05:00 EarthCARE Cal/Val activities Paolo Castracane (ESA) 1j In Person
11:25:00 MTG-I1 entry into operational phase and MTG-S status Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat) 1k In Person
  11:50:00 GDWG Report Paolo Castracane (ESA) 1l In Person
  12:15:00 GRWG Report Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat) 1m In Person
  13:00:00 Lunch  
  17-Mar-25 VIS/NIR + Lunar Breakout Session 17 March 2025 Space Weather Breakout Session  
PM Session Chair: Mounir Lekouara and Tom Stone Session Chair: Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) Presenter
Time Topic Presenter ID Time Topic Presenter ID
  13:30:00 Global Pseudo-Invariant Pixels (GPIPs) Selection: A Big Data Approach for Radiometric Calibration Junwei Wang (CMA)  2a In Person 13:30:00 GOES-19 MPS-HI Calibration: The Newest GOES Radiation Belt Instrument  Athanasios Boudouridis (NOAA) 3a virtual
  13:50:00 FY-3F MERSI-III Reflective Solar Band On-orbit Calibration Methodology and Performance Ling Wang (CMA)  2b In Person 13:50:00 GOES 16-19 Solar and Galactic Proton Sensor (SGPS) Cross-Calibrations During Oct-Nov 2024 SEP Events  Brian Kress (NOAA) 3b virtual
  14:10:00 Current status of KMA VIS/NIR Calibration: Long-term Analysis of Five years Hanbyul Lee (KMA)  2c Virtual 14:10:00 FengYun-3H/WAI-II Prelaunch Test Results and The Calibration Approach In-orbit  Yafen Yang (CMA) 3c virtual
  14:30:00 Current status of transition from MODIS to VIIRS for AHI vicarious calibration Misaki Eiki (JMA)  2d In Person 14:30:00 ADITYA-L1 MISSION OF INDIA AND CROSS-CALIBRATION OF ASPEX  Dibyendu Chakrabarty (PRL) 3d virtual
  14:50:00 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 14:50:00 In-orbit calibration and flux monitoring comparison of the Solar X-EUV imager on the Fengyun-3E satellite  Bowen Gong (CIOMP) 3e In person
  15:10:00 Break 15:10:00 Multi-Point Geostationary Observations of Major 2024 Space Weather Events: Data from GK2A, Himawari-9, GOES-16 and -18  Daehyeon Oh (KMA) 3f Virtual
  15:30:00 TRUTHS mission Nigel Fox (NPL)  2f Virtual 15:30:00 Long Term Variation of Cross-calibration results between Himawari8/SEDA and GOES16/MPS-HI Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) 3g virtual
  15:40:00 Intro to the Lunar Subgroup Session + Update on MLO-LUSI  Tom Stone (USGS)  2g Virtual 15:50:00 Cross-calibration of ESA Radiation Monitors  Ingmar Sandberg (SPARC) 3h Virtual
  15:50:00 Challenges to calibrate MTG/FCI VIS/NIR channels with lunar observations Sebastien Wagner (EUMETSAT)  2h Virtual 16:10:00 Discussion   3j
  16:10:00 Update on LSICS Development Tom Stone (USGS)  2i Virtual 16:30:00 End of the session   3k
  16:30:00 LESSR v2.0: an advanced new lunar reflectance model for monitoring spaceborne instruments with moon observations Matthijs Krijger (Earth Space Solutions)  2j Virtual 16:45:00      
16:50:00 Lunar Discussion All 2k 18:00:00 END of Day 1
17:10:00 END of Day 1
18:30:00 Welcome Dinner
18-Mar-25 VIS/NIR + Lunar Breakout Session Contd    
2025-03-18 00:00:00 Session Chair: Dave Doelling          
Time Topic Presenter
AM 08:00:00 Intro to the VISNIR Subgroup Session David Doelling (NASA)  4a Virtual
  08:10:00 Globally combining new GEO Lightening Mapper sensors Daile Zhang (UND) 4b Virtual
  08:30:00 Validation and evaluation of the FY-4 Lightning Mapping Imager products Wenjuan Zhang, Fuxiang Huang   (CMA) 4c In Person
  08:50:00 Monitoring the FCI VIS-NIR and LI Radiometric Performance Using Vicarious Calibration and Inter-Calibration Ali Mousivand (EUMETSAT)  4d In Person
  09:10:00 Break In Person
  09:25:00 VIIRS DCC stability monitoring improvements and validating the scaling of Himawari-8 with VIIRS David Doelling (NASA) 4e Virtual
  09:45:00 Application of DCC Calibration Technique on FengYun imagers zhangbei (CMA)  4f In Person
  10:05:00 VIS/NIR discussion All  4g
  10:20:00 Break
  11:00:00 Challenges and Lessons Learned in Vicarious Desert Calibration: A Critical Review Ali Mousivand (EUMETSAT) 4i prerecorded
11:20:00 Toward the improvement of Ray-matching inter-calibration for AHIs on Himawari-8 and -9 Masaya Takahashi (JMA) 4j In Person
11:40:00 Future of the EUM VIS-NIR GSICS products Mounir Lekouara (EUMETSAT) 4k In Person
12:00:00 Lunch
 
   
  18 March 2025 IR Breakout session   18 March 2025 GDWG Additional Session
PM Session Chair: Chengli Qi Minutes: Likun Wang   Time Topic Presenter
Time Topic Presenter
13:30:00 Welcome Remarks and Review for IR Groups Chengli Qi (CMA)  5a In Person 16:00:00 GSICS Data and Product Server Luca Garegnani   (remotely) 11k
13:40:00 Monitoring the MTG-I1 FCI IR Calibration Using GSICS Inter-Calibration Algorithms Ali Mousivand (EUMETSAT) 5b In Person 16:45:00 Discussion All 11l
14:00:00 Current status of AMI IR product Euidong (KMA) 5c Virtual
14:20:00 The Calibration and Validation System of the Infrared Channels of the FY-3/MERSI Hanlie Xu (CMA) 5d In Person
14:40:00 On-board Calibration Technology for the Infrared Emission Spectral Bands of Medium-Resolution Spectral Imager Yang WANG (SITP) 5e In Person
15:00:00 Break Break
15:20:00 Improvements on Inter-calibration of CrIS and VIIRS Likun Wang (NOAA/UMD)  5f In Person
15:40:00 Application of new collocation method based on LOS vector to AHI and LEO instruments Shin Koyamatsu (JMA)  5g In Person
16:00:00 Relative SRF retrieval -Application to Metop IASI Pierre Dussarat (EUMETSAT)  5h Virtual
 16:20 Discussion of IR topics All  5i
   
2025-03-19 00:00:00 19-Mar-25 UVN-S Breakout Session I 2025-03-19 00:00:00 Microwave Sub-Group Breakout Session    
AM Session Chair: Rasmus Lindstrot Minutes: Larry Flynn Session Chair: Flavio Iterbide
Time Topic Presenter ID Time Topic Presenter ID
08:00:00 TEMPO instrument calibration status Heesung Chong  6a Virtual 08:00:00 Introduction Shengli / Flavio  7a In person
08:20:00 Recent OMPS Calibration efforts for NOAA 20 & 21 Sriharsha Madhavan 6b Virtual 08:10:00 GSICS Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrument Pre-Launch Testing and Post-Launch Characterization (TT) Focus Group Report Dazhen Gu 7b Remote
08:40:00 NPP & NOAA-20 OMPS Time-Dependent Calibration; update on ACX Larry Flynn 6c Virtual 08:30:00 MW Radiometer Lunar Calibration Focus Group Report Tiger Yang 7c Remote
09:00:00 OCO-2 and OCO-3 Radiometric Trends Rob Rosenberg 6d Virtual 08:50:00 Direct MW Radiometer Inter-comparison Method and Vicarious Calibration Focus Group Report Tim Hewison 7d In person
09:20:00 GOSAT serious calibration and intercomparison with multiple GHG sensors Kei Shiomi 6e Virtual 09:10:00 Hyperspectral COSMIR-H aircraft instrument  and the WH²yMSIE campaign Rachael Kroodsma (NASA) 7e Remote
09:40:00 The Calibration results of the OMS-Nadir onboard FY-3F Jinghua Mao 6f In Person 09:40:00 Advancements in satellite-based hyperspectral microwave sounding at NASA-GSFC Antonia Gambacorta (NASA) 7f Remote
10:00:00 In orbit Calibration and Evaluation of FY-3F OMS Limb. Yuan Li  6g In Person 10:10:00 Prelaunch Performance Evaluation of MWRI-II Onboard FengYun-3H Pengjuan Yao 7i In person
10:20:00 An Overview to Pre-launch Calibration of FY-3F OMS-Limb Haochen Li 6h In Person 10:30:00 The Status of Microwave Radiometer onboard FengYun Satellites Juyang Hu 7h In person
10:40:00 Discussion of UVN-S Topics for the Year All 6i   10:45:00 AMSR3 status Misako Kachi (JAXA) 7g Remote
     
 
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
PM 14:40:00 Study on EMI decay monitoring and correction in orbit Fuqi Si  8a In Person 14:40:00 Highlights of ESA's microwave activities Raffaele Crapolicchio, ESA 7j Remote
15:00:00 Current status of calibration and validation for GEMS Level 1 Products Yeeun Lee 8b Virtual 15:00:00 Introduction to the EPS-Sterna inter-calibration study Tim Hewison 7k In person
15:20:00 Calibration and validation concept of the CO2I/NO2I instrument on-board the CO2M mission Bernd Sierk 8c Virtual 15:20:00 Monitoring of FY-3 in-orbit microwave instruments' performances using radiative transfer models and NWP Fangli Dou (CMA) 7l In person
15:40:00 Current status of GOME-2 calibration & outlook for Sentinel-4 & Sentinel-5 Rasmus Lindstrot  8d In Person 15:40:00 Coffee Break
16:00:00 OMI/TropoMI Status Overview Deborah Stein Zweers 8e Virtual 16:00:00 Vicarious Radiosonde Calibration Tool - VICIRS Tim Hewison 7m In person
16:20:00 DLER database (surface reflectivity.) Erwin Loots 8f Virtual 16:20:00 Spatio-Temporal Fusion and Selection of pseudo-invariant calibration sites (PICS) Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing of Lunar Observations Lide Zhu (SDUST) 7n In person
16:40:00 L1 UVN status update Erwin Loots 8g Virtual 16:40:00 Update on MWS cal/val plans - postponed to web meeting Tim Hewison In person
17:00:00 ESA FDR4ATMOS Project: Status Update and Roadmap Günter Lichtenberg 8h Virtual 17:00:00 Discussion and Way Forward All 7p Hybrid
17:20:00 On-orbit status of FY-3E SSIM UV band Jin Qi 8i In Person 17:30:00 END of Day 3
17:40:00 The Inflight Calibration of the FY-3E SSIM VIS Band Xiaohu Yang  8j In Person    
           
2025-03-20 00:00:00 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
AM 08:30:00 Future of the EUMETSAT GSICS IR products Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat)  10a In Person 09:00:00 Welcome remarks from GDWG Chair Paolo Castracane (in person)  11a
08:50:00 FY-4C GIIRS instrument and Level-1 processing introduction Lu Lee (CMA) 10b In Person 09:15:00 WMO – status of GSICS WMO website Heikki Pohjola (in person) 11b
09:10:00 Prelaunch calibration of the FY-4 Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder(GIIRS) Libing LI (SITP) 10c In Person 09:30:00 KMA GDWG Report Hanbyul Lee  (Virtually) 11c
09:30:00 Computing Lunar Geometry for CrIS Observations Likun Wang (NOAA/UMD) 10d In Person 09:45:00 JMA GDWG Report Masaya Takahashi  (in person)  11d
09:50:00 Innovative Ideas in Lunar Calibration for IR Martin Burgdorf (University of Hamburg) 10e In Person 10:00:00 CMA GDWG Report - extended talk including CMA Server status Lin Tian (Virtually) 11e
10:10:00 Break 10:30:00 IMD GDWG Report Ashim Mitra. (in person)  11f
10:30:00 Navigation Registration and Radiometric Calibration for Lunar Observation of Geostationary Meteorological Satellites Peiwen Chen (SDUST) 10f In Person 10:45:00 NOAA GDWG Report Manik Bali. (in person)  11g
10:50:00 Comprehensive Analysis of the Airborne HIRAS Validation Experiment Yiqi Zhu (SITP) 10g In Person 11:00:00 EUMETSAT GDWG Report Simon Elliott (in person)  11h
11:10:00 Research progress of space infrared radiation reference SI-traceability subsystem Shijie Xin (SITP) 10h 11:15:00 ESA GDWG Report Paolo Castracane  11i
11:30:00 Plan for next year All 10i 11:30:00 GSICS Data and Product server (status); Data Conventions and Versioning; SOS Report; Jupiter Notebooks. Discussion Topic for All  11j
   
 
2025-03-20 00:00:00 20-Mar-25 Agency Reports
Sesson Chair: Manik Bali Minutes:
Time Topic Presenter ID
PM 13:30:00 Welcome by EP Chair Bojan Bojkov  12a
13:36:00 CMA Report Chengli Qi 12b
13:48:00
14:00:00 NIST Report  12d
14:12:00 ISRO Report Pradeep Thapliyal 12e
14:24:00 KMA Report Eun-Jeong Cha  12f
14:36:00 IMD Report Ashim Mitra  12g
14:48:00 ESA Report Philippe Goryl (recorded)  12h
15:00:00 WMO Report Heikki Pohjola  12i
15:12:00 Break
15:24:00 JAXA Report Misako Kachi (recorded only) 12j
15:36:00 NASA Report 12k
15:48:00 JMA Report Masaya Takahashi 12l
16:00:00 USGS Report Cody Anderson (USGS) 12m
16:12:00 Eumetsat Report Mounir Lekouara (Eumetsat) 12n
16:24:00 NOAA Report Satya Kalluri 12o
16:36:00 SITP Agency Report Lei Ding 12o2
16:48:00 RosCosmos Report 12p
17:00:00 CNES Report Caroline Bès / Murielle Lafaye 12c
17:12:00 CEOS WGCV & CGMS GSICS Joint Workshop on Pre-flight Calibration / Characterization Nigel Fox (NPL) & Jack Xiong (NASA) 12q
17:32:00 SI Traceable Satellite (SITSat) Group Overview Nigel Fox (NPL) & Yolanda Shea (NASA) 12r
17:52:00 GCC Annual Report Manik Bali (NOAA / UMD) 12s
18:00:00 Discussion   12t
     
 
2025-03-21 00:00:00 Report Out, Cross-cutting and Planning (Day 5, AM Fri 21 March)
Chair: Lawrence Flynn (NOAA), Minutes: Manik Bali (UMD)
AM Time Title Presenter
08:00:00 GDWG Splinter Session Report Paolo Castracane (ESA) 13a
08:36:00 Sonde Campaign Report Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT) 13c
08:51:00 CalCon Proposal Dave Doelling (NASA) & Tom Stone (USGS) 13d
09:06:00 GRWG Lunar Report Tom Stone (USGS) 13e
09:24:00 GRWG IR Report Chengli Qi (CMA) & Likun Wang (NOAA / UMD) 13f
09:42:00 GRWG MW Report Shengli Wu (CMA) & Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez (NOAA) 13g
10:00:00 GRWG Vis/NIR Report Dave Doelling (NASA) 13h
10:18:00 GRWG SWx Report Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT) 13i
10:36:00 Break
10:51:00 GRWG UVN-S Report Larry Flynn (NOAA) & Rasmus Lindstrot (Eumetsat) 13j
11:09:00 CEOS WGCV Cody Anderson (USGS) 13k
11:24:00 CEOS WGCV & CGMS GSICS Joint Workshop on Pre-flight Calibration / Characterization Nigel Fox (NPL)  
11:39:00 SI Traceable Satellite (SITSat) Group Overview Nigel Fox (NPL)  
11:54:00 New Action Items & Items that can be closed All  
12:09:00 Next meeting and chairs All
12:24:00 Lunch All
       
2025-03-21 00:00:00 EP Meeting
Time Topic Presenter  
GSICS Executive Panel 25 - AGENDA 
Fri 21 March 2025 
13:30  Opening of the Meeting   EP Chair B. Bojkov 
  Introduction of participants and approval of agenda     
13:35  Introduction of participants  2.1  All   
13:45  Approval of agenda  2.2  EP Chair, all   
  Updates to GSICS Membership (if any)     
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  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
15:00:00 Review of actions, new actions/ recommendations from the meeting  7 EP Chair, GCC 
15:20:00 Planning Future GSICS Annual Meeting and User Workshop  8 GCC (Manik) 
15:40:00 Any Other Business : Awards and Recognition 9 All 
  Closing    EP Chair 
  EP-24 Final report with actions:     
GSICS-EP-24_Final-Report.pdf