Special Issue of the IEEE TGRS on “Inter-Calibration of Satellite Instruments”: 19 April 2019 Outline Agenda (ver.1.1) 2019 GSICS Annual Meeting Frascati, Italy 4-8 March 2019 13 November 2018 Updated 14 November 2018

Today’s Agenda Planning Annual Meeting Agenda – GRWG/GDWG Chairs + GCC Outline of Agenda Mini Conference Topics for Plenary/GRWG/GDWG Sessions Online Meeting Agenda / Minutes AOB Annual GSICS Calibration Report for {Agency} – Masaya Takahashi (JMA) => Canceled due to time constraints. To be discussed via gsics-dev Logistics – Phillipe Goryl (ESA) Venue Lunches, Group Dinner Registration Recommended Hotel Transport Options Remote Access

Outlook of 2019 Annual Meeting Agenda Names in Red: Session Chairs Monday (4 Mar) Tuesday (5 Mar) Wednesday (6 Mar) Thursday (7 Mar) Friday (8 Mar) AM “Mini Conference” Philippe Goryl Plenary: WG + Subgroup Reports Fangfang Yu VIS/NIR (Lunar) Tom Stone GDWG Masaya Takahashi IR Likun Wang/ Tim Hewison Cross-cutting & Wrap-up GCC MW Ralph Ferrero UV Rose Munro PM Plenary: Agency Reports Scott Hu Plenary: Cross-cutting Topics Dave Doelling IR? Likun Wang / Tim Hewison Reporting Outcomes & Planning Future Meetings UV? ETC Ice Breaker Working Groups’ Dinner Lunch time (30 min): Visit to the PHI-Experience (EO promotion/images tour) Start time 08:30 End time 14:00

Mini-Conference MON (day-1) AM – Chair: Philippe Goryl Meeting participants/observers present their recent calibration activities Which may not be covered in the agenda of the main meeting But are nevertheless of interest to development of future inter-calibration products Good opportunity for local host to invite cal/val specialists who are not GSICS members E.g., ESA's project on building a lunar irradiance model using aerosol photometer data (Marc Bouvet, Stefan Adriaensen, ...)

Mini Conference Agenda proposed by ESA – starting point for discussion! Volunteers and/or invitations inside/outside ESA? Need full day? => The groups agreed half-day Mini Conference 4 March 2019 Presenter 08:30 – 08:35 Welcome ESA ESA 08:35 – 08:45 Welcome and Introduction GRWG Chair 08:45 – 09:00 Logistics 09:00 – 10:00 ESA EO Programme 10:00 – 11:00 ESA Mission status (e.g. Sentinel-3A/-B) ESA, EUM, … 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 – 12:30 ESA Activities Linked to GSICS – FCDR/Fiducial Reference Measurement (e.g. Lunar Calibration) ESA, … 12:30 – 13:00 Quality Assurance for EO (linked to CEOS/WGCV-IVOS) Nigel Fox

Plenary Session (Agency/Chair Report) MON (day-1) PM ~ TUE (day-2) AM – Scott Hu / Fangfang Yu Agency Reports (20 min each agency) 10 to 15 Agencies (12 in 2018 meeting) Focusing on action status/progress Highlights on satellite/instruments updates and reports on calibration activities are also included. Proposal for 2019 Meeting: preparing Annual GSICS report on radiometric calibration performance for GEO imagers validated by GSICS inter-calibration approach (to be discussed via gsics-dev) GCC, GDWG, GRWG reports (60 min) GRWG Subgroup Reports UV, VIS/NIR, IR, MW (20 min each)

Plenary Session (GRWG+GDWG) TUE (day-2) PM – GCC (Larry Flynn/Manik Bali)? WG Cross-cutting topics to be discussed E.g., Defining GSICS Deliverables/Maturity, GSICS Procedure for Product Acceptance, Requirements for GSICS Websites, GEO-Ring, SBAF Tool, Selecting GISCS References. There is also a room for the same discussion on Day-5 AM Topics for Day-2: issues to be discussed before WGs breakout sessions Results are back to Plenary on Day-5 Inputs from EUMETSAT (Tim Hewison) Special session of UV/VIS Sub-Groups to outline the issue of hyperspectral SWIR inter-calibration Inter-calibration for polarimeters in preparation to support operational missions such as EPS-SG/3MI

Proposed Topics - Inputs from CMA Plenary CMA GPRC 2019 report (Xiuqing Hu/Na Xu) FY-3D/HIRAS commissioning test (Chengli Qi): IR session? FY-3D/MERSI-II Evaluation using CMA GSICS platform (Na Xu) Mutual Evaluation between the imager and hyperspectral sounder at the same platform FY-3D AND FY-4 (Hanlie Xu): IR session? Instrument degradation monitoring based on AI method (Xiuqing Hu) Recalibration initiation for historical FY instrument data (Xiuqing Hu/Ling Sun) VIS/NIR DCC target characterization using MODIS,VIIRS and MERSI (Lin Chen) Data quality analysis of FY-3/MERSI RSBs based on simulation over ocean (Ling Sun) Lunar calibration for FY-3D/MERSI-II (Ronghua Wu) IR IR inter-calibration overview in CMA including GEO-LEO and LEO-LEO (Na Xu) GDWG CMA GPRC data group report (Zhe Xu) PICS and SNO subsets extraction protocol for GSICS usage (Lin Chen) => could be discussed in Plenary FY historical Big Data Reprocessing system establishment and sharing (Di Xian)

Potential Topics for 2019 Plenary Session WG cross-cutting topics Cal/Val status/results on the latest instruments Instrument performance monitoring: requirements from GSICS GSICS Plotting Tool: updates at EUMETSAT Action Tracking Tool: updates Interaction with Space Weather community: GDWG Chair to discuss with Co-chair of CGMS Coordination Group for Space Weather New GSICS Products/Deliverables: Product outreach/promotion (GCC) GSICS Product Catalog: updates – dissemination/visualization (GCC) Special session on re-calibration/re-processing incl. data dissemination on Tue PM. Chair: Tim Hewison GEO-Ring: SCOPE-CM/IOGEO FIDUCEO: updates CLARREO Pathfinder Inter-calibration for climate monitoring system (collaboration w/ ISCCP (, CGMS ISWGs, CM-SAF) ) New WMO GSICS Portal website WMO CIMO Guide Updating; PART III: Space-based observation Preparation for forthcoming meetings: could also fit on Day-5 or GRWG sessions 2019-06 (?) Pre-launch Characterization (GSICS-WGCV) 2019 Q4 SI-traceable Reference Instrument (GSICS-WGCV) 2020? Lunar Calibration (GSICS-WGCV) …

GRWG (VIS/NIR) WED (day-3) – Dave Doelling / Tom Stone Proposed topics at 2019 Annual Meeting Lunar Calibration (AM or PM) Update on GIRO validation against ROLO (Tom) Calibration against lunar radiance (NOAA) Lunar MTF (Fangfang, others?) Lunar irradiance model using aerosol photometer data (ESA) => Mini Conference Inter-band calibration? Straylight characterization? Other VIS/NIR Calibration (AM or PM) NPP VIIRS as the VIS/NIR reference instrument: NOAA v2 processing (invite Changyong Cao from NOAA?) => could be discussed in Plenary Calibration against Rayleigh scattering (Bertrand) Calibration against DCC, incl. paper submission (Dave)

GRWG (MW) WED (day-3) – Ralph Ferraro / Qifeng Lu (1/2) Topics at 2019 Annual Meeting – Tentative thoughts We could potentially go ALL DAY We have the action from CGMS and we propose a special session…. “GSICS is requested to organise an expert meeting on the intercalibration of operational PMW sensors to meet the WIGOS 2040 targets for a coordinated effort to share information on current and future PMW instruments and report to CGMS-47.” Depending on virtual attendance (can ESA support this?), we may have to span the session across morning and afternoon Invite list would include anyone who attends the meeting, who our group proposes. A tentative additional list includes: Qifeng Lu (CMA) – leads this activity Rachael Kroodsma (NASA) – XCAL contact + GMI experience Misako Kachi (JAXA) – AMSR experience Jun Park (KMA) – AMSR inter-calibration experience Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) – Experience with NRT GSICS products Others?? – Ralph, Cheng-Zhi, Wes Berg, Viju? ESA person? Paul Chang (WindSat, AMSR), ??

GRWG (MW) WED (day-3) – Ralph Ferraro / Qifeng Lu (2/2) Introduction and Action Item/Discussion, to include: CEOS WGCV progress SNO best practice as a GSICS deliverable Science/topical updates Host agency could have 2-3 topics => ESA to check potential topics N20 ATMS update Metop-C AMSU/MHS status and early results Others

GRWG (IR) THU (day-4) – Likun Wang / Tim Hewison Proposed Topics at 2019 Annual Meeting Cal/Val status/results on the latest or future instruments: Hyperspectral instruments FY-4A/GIIRS and FY-3D/HIRAS (CMA) MetOp-C/IASI (CNES and EUMETSAT) IASI/NG (CNES) or MTG-S (ESA) Narrow- or broad band instrument Sentinel-3 (EUMETSAT), GOES-17/ABI (NOAA), … Inter-calibration for hyperspectral IR instruments Inter-calibration difference (web meeting planned) IASI (3), CrIS (2), AIRS(1), GIIRS(GEO), HIRAS(1) IRRefUTable Report (web meeting) The way forward (reprocessing, FCDR ideas) Inter-calibration for LEO and GEO broad- and narrow-band IR bands Issues, products, new findings, and the way forward of LEO-GEO and GEO-GEO comparison Updates on research topics Collocation, Gap filling, SRF retrievals, and Budget and uncertainty analysis Action review from last year’s meeting New ideas and topics

GRWG (UV) THU (day-4) – Rosemary Munro / Larry Flynn NOAA’s Suggestion for 2019 Annual Meeting UV Project Reports Solar / Reflectivity / Initial Residuals / Calibration Best Practices Sentinel 5P TropOMI, NOAA-20 OMPS, Metop-C GOME-2, GF-5 EMI, FY-3F OMS-N & OMS-L UV in GEO/L1 Orbits Reference Solar Spectra

GDWG WED (day-3) ~ THU (day-4) – Masaya Takahashi GDWG Baseline Reviews – actions, website, products metadata/structures GSICS Collaboration Servers Configuration, data access services, and mirroring (CMA, EUMETSAT, ISRO, NOAA) PICS/SNO data extraction function Data Dissemination How EUMETSAT’s pathfinder activities would benefit GSICS (EUMETSAT) Visualization of GSICS Products Updating progress of GSICS Plotting Tool (EUMETSAT) Implementation on GSICS Product Catalog (NOAA) ESA’s activities relevant to GDWG activities => ESA to check E.g., data center, websites, metadata conventions for ESA’s products Use of GitHub for GSICS developments Event logging Action tracking (NOAA) Access for GSICS on Clouds (NOAA) GSICS websites (Wiki, WMO GSICS Portal) Instrument Performance Monitoring system

Plenary Session FRI (day-5) – AM: GCC, PM: GRWG Chair/Vice-Chair Cross-cutting issues Reporting Outcomes & Planning Future Meetings GRWG/GDWG/GCC GSICS Quarterly – towards collaboration with contemporary journals Membership Upcoming Special Issues Planning Web Meetings and Face-to-Face Meetings Annual Meeting Joint Meeting with observer/associate member (e.g. CEOS/WGCV) Users Workshop Joint EUMETSAT/AMS/NOAA Conference 2019 2017 Report on Vladivostok, Instrument and Level 1 Monitoring, OSCAR, Landing Pages, GPRCs, and ICVS

Online Meeting Agenda / Minutes 19/04/2019 Online Meeting Agenda / Minutes Detailed agenda and meeting minutes will be prepared on ZoHo Sheet (similar to Google spreadsheet) Exported as HTML and embedded into GSICS Wiki (with hyperlinks to presentations) http://gsics.atmos.umd.edu/bin/view/Development/AnnualMeeting2019 Anyone can access, but need invitations to edit – GDWG Chair to do this Example for 2018 Meeting: Agenda / Minutes Minutes will be updated during the meeting period of time By volunteer minutes takers and all presenters New actions will be reviewed on Day-5 morning, and uploaded on GCC Action Tracking Page

Any Other Business? 2nd preparatory meeting needed? 19/04/2019 Any Other Business? 2nd preparatory meeting needed? The group agreed there is no special need for the 2nd meeting at present. Session Chairs will coordinate the details of each session.