1. Manik Bali, Aleksandar Jelenak
TAXONOMY
Manik Bali, Aleksandar Jelenak

2. 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany
Taxonomy of GSICS products is very important for establishing future data management policies.
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3. Products to be classified as
Instrument Class
Algorithm type
Product type.
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4. 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany
Review of activities since the last meetings
TAXONOMY
Instrument class
Represents the types of monitored and reference instruments, and the electromagnetic spectrum range of their observational capabilities.
GEO-LEO-VIS
GEO-LEO-NIR
GEO-LEO-VISNIR
LEO-LEO-IR
LEO-LEO-VIS
LEO-LEO-UVVIS
LEO-LEO-MW (LEO-LEO Microwave)
GEO-GEO-IR
GEO-GEO-VIS
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Algorithm Type
NWP-DD
(Numerical Weather Prediction Double Differencing)
Hyperspectral
Broadband
DCC (Deep Convective Clouds)
Moon
Stars
Rayleigh Scattering
PICS (Pseudo Invariant Calibration Sites)
SNO (Simultaneous Nadir Overpass)
Ray Matching
LWC (Liquid Water Cloud)
Sun Glint
Amazon
Dome C
Combined Method 
(this is not a method on its own but a
combination of two or more other
principle methods)
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Product Type
RAC (Re-analysis Correction)
NRTC (Near Real-Time Correction)
Daily
ARC (Archive Re-Calibration)
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7. GSICS Product Properties
List of all the properties associated with one product : Name
Data producer
Data publisher
Instrument class
Principal methodology
Product type
Monitored instrument
Reference instrument (one or more)
Version number
Data URL
Documentation URL
Metadata URL (optional; one or more)
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Example
Name: GEOLEOIR
Data producer: NESDIS
Data publisher: NESDIS
Instrument class: GEO-LEO-IR
Principal methodology: Hyper-spectral SNO
Product type: RAC
Monitored instrument: GOES-13 Imager
Reference instrument: Metop-A IASI
Version number: 1.0.1
Data URL: (See the product catalog)
Documentation URL: (See the product catalog)
Metadata URL: (Not available)
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9. 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany
Organization of the products on the THREDDS catalog based on the proposed product taxonomy
Top Level
GEO-LEO
LEO-LEO
FCDR
GEO-GEO
II Level
CD to GOES-IASI
MSG-IASI
CD to AIRS-IASI
HIRS-AIRS
CD to MSU-AMSU
CD to …….
III Level
CD to IR
VIS
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