1. ESA Agency Report GSICS 2019 Annual Meeting 04 March 2019 ESA/ESRIN
Philippe Goryl

2. ESA full Member of GSICS
The GSICS POC for ESA will be:
- Philippe Goryl
- Mark Drinkwater

3. ESA activities presented in the Mini-Conference
ESA EO programme presented by Henri Laur
CCI – Climate Change Initiative – presented by Jerome Benveniste
FRM activities presented by Philippe Goryl
F(C)DR for altimetry presented by Jerome Bouffard
Aeolus Mission status and Cal/Val presented by Jonas Von Bismark
Lunar Calibration Update presented by Stefan Adriaensen (VITO)

4. ESA activities will be presented in the sub-group session
SMOS Cal/Val and geophysical products in the MWR session – presented by Raffaele Crapolicchio and Roberto Sabia
OLCI-A/B intercalibration in tandem phase presented in the VIS/VNIR sub-group by Nicolas Lamquin (ACRI)
SLSTR VIS/SWIR channel calibration (including Deserts and Sun-Glint methods) presented in the VIS/VNIR sub-group by Dave Smith (RAL)
Eradiate: Review atmospheric radiative transfer models suitable for vicarious calibration presented in the VIS/VNIR sub-group by Yves Govaert (Rayference) (Copernicus funded project)
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS) presented in the GDWG session by Mirko Albani
ESA collaborative Environment for Cal/Val presented in the GDWG session by Andrea Della Vecchia/Damiano Guerrucci

5. 5 Posters in the James Cook Room
Proba-V Top of Canopy (TOC) Reflectance Validation over Aeronet sites using the Mission Exploitation Platform, Erminia De Grandis et al.
F(C)DR for Atmosphere: FDR4ATMOS, Fundamental Data Records for ATMOSpheric composition, Gabriele Brizzi et al.
Evolution of the ESA atmospheric Validation Center: EVDC, Paolo Castracane et al.
BAQUNIN Boundary Layer Air Quality using Network of Instrumentations (BAQUNIN) supersite for satellite Cal/Val and Urban Environment studies, Stefano Casadio et al.
Scatterometer, Sabrina Pinori et al.

6. VH-RODA: Very High-resolution Radar & Optical Data Assessment workshop
Announcement!
VH-RODA: Very High-resolution Radar & Optical Data Assessment workshop
18-22 November 2019
ESA/ESRIN Frascati (Italy)

7. Thank you for your attention!