News
[2024-Jul-12] Announcement of Opportunity for Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 Cal/Val: With a joint Announcement of Opportunity (AO) Call, ESA and EUMETSAT invite the science and user community to propose (e.g. nationally) funded activities that support the validation of the operational products of the Copernicus missions Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5. The objective is to trigger and coordinate activities aiming at establishing the initial post-launch quality of the products, supporting the consolidation of the processors, and verifying that the applicable quality requirements are met. The AO Call focuses on the early post-launch mission phase until the public release of the products. The AO Call was released on July 12, 2024, expecting the first launch of either MTG-S1 with an S4/UVN or MetOp-SG A1 with an S5/UVNS instrument on board, in the 2025 timeframe. Proposals can be submitted on-line to https://www.eumetsat.int/announcement-opportunity-call-calval-activities-sentinel-4-and-5 by the end of September 2024.
[2024-Jul-10] In response to growing requests for data management practices associated within atmospheric satellite Cal/Val activities, especially to support data formatting, data upload and data download from EVDC, NILU will host in Kjeller, Norway, the Atmosphere and Climate Data Management Workshop for Next Generation Earth Observation and Satellite Calibration and Validation Scientists (ATMONEXT). The workshop is necessary to tackle evolving challenges in managing atmospheric data generated/planned to be generated by scientists, as part of (1) research infrastructure projects, (2) field-, ship-, drone- and aircraft campaigns, and (3) observing networks in support of Cal/Val activities. This workshop is expected to promote communication and share experiences of scientists in formatting data and following data standards to make their data useful for Cal/Val activities for current and future satellite missions such as e.g. EarthCARE, Sentinel-5P, ALTIUS and CO2M. The workshop goes beyond routine discussions and aims to explore practical solutions to data management using the implementation of the Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard (GEOMS) (https://evdc.esa.int/documentation/geoms/). Dates of the 23-25 October 2024. If interested please apply on https://forms.office.com/e/A305CLWU3G by the 15th of August 2024.
[2024-Feb-15] The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) is establishing CEOS-FRM Maturity Assessment framework to assess the maturity and compliance of a Fiducial Reference Measurement (FRM) in terms of a set of community-agreed criteria. The assessment process is based on a maturity matrix that provides a visual assessment of the state of any FRM against each of a set of given criteria, making visible where it is mature and where evolution and effort are still needed. The Roadmap towards an Assessment Framework for CEOS-Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRMs), available on the FRMs Assessment Framework page of the CEOS Cal/Val Portal, provides the overarching definition of what constitutes an FRM and introduces the new CEOS-FRM assessment framework.
Upcoming Events
| DATE | EVENT | VENUE | WEBSITE |
| August 26-30, 2024 | TEMPO/GEMS Joint Science Team Meeting | Hawaii, USA | |
| Sept. 30 - Oct. 4, 2024 | EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference (MSC) 2024 | Würzburg, Germany | EUM24 |
| October 15-18, 2024 | CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation 54th Meeting | Sioux Falls, SD, USA | |
| November 11-14, 2024 | NDACC Steering Committee 2024 | Santiago, Chile | |
| December 9-13, 2024 | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024 | Washington, D.C., USA | AGU24 |
Past News
[2024-Jan-30] Upcoming Announcement of Opportunity for Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 Cal/Val: In spring 2024 ESA and EUMETSAT will release jointly an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) Call inviting the science and user community of the Copernicus satellite missions Sentinel-4 (S4) and Sentinel-5 (S5) to propose Cal/Val activities for the operational mission products. The primary objectives of the activities triggered by the AO Call are to assess and establish the initial post-launch data quality of the mission products, support the consolidation of the processors, and verify that the mission products meet the applicable data quality requirements. The AO covers the early post-launch mission phase until the public release of the products. The AO Call will be released about one year before the expected launch date of the first satellites (anticipated in 2025): either MTG-S1 with the S4/UVN PFM on board, or MetOp-SG A1 with the S5/UVNS PFM on board. A proposal period of 2 months (starting from the date of the AO Call release) is foreseen.
[2024-Jan-17] Save the date: In the week of 3 - 6 June 2024 a hybrid OMI-TROPOMI Workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado at the NCAR Foothills Laboratory and online. Contributions will be welcome for the following possible themes:
- Long-term Records
- AQ and Emissions
- Applications and Societal impacts
- GEO and Polar Orbit AQ constellations (including OMI, TROPOMI, GOME-2, OMPS, GEMS, TEMPO, etc.)
- Algorithm Improvements
- New Mission Ideas
After three years of virtual events, the CEOS Atmospheric Composition Virtual Constellation (AC-VC) and the Atmospheric Composition Sub Group of the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV ACSG) organize the CEOS AC-VC/ACSG Atmospheric Composition Joint Meeting 2023 in Brussels on October 24-27, 2023. This event will be the opportunity to exchange latest updates on atmospheric composition missions and coordinate international activities pertaining to satellite measurements of Air Quality & Aerosols, Greenhouse Gases and Ozone, and topics like Cal/Val requirements for the CEOS constellations and Science serving society.
ESA organizes on October 10-11, 2023, the Earth Explorer 11 User Consultation Meeting in Bucharest, Romania. This user consultation is planned to support the selection of up to two missions for the ESA Earth Explorer 11 satellite. Three of the four candidate missions having passed the first selections address atmospheric composition and parameters: CAIRT, a tomographic imaging IR limb sounder targeting global profiling of ozone, temperature, water vapour, and key halogen and nitrogen compounds in the 5 to 115 km altitude range; NITROSAT, combining TIR and VIS spectrometers to monitor tropospheric ammonia (NH3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) at 1-km on-ground resolution; and WIVERN, the WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope for observing global winds, clouds and precipitation.
NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument lifted off on its way to geostationary orbit at 12:30 a.m. (EDT) on Friday, April 7, 2023. TEMPO will be the first space-based instrument to measure air quality over North America hourly during the daytime and at spatial resolution of several square kilometers. TEMPO commissioning activities started in late May.
Request for Information for NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Aura Data Continuity Workshop - NASA announces the release of a Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Request for Information (RFI) via NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) that seeks input from the science community that will be considered in the development and implementation of a Terra, Aqua, and Aura (T/A/A) data continuity workshop planned for Spring 2023. NASA requests input from the science community (comprising research, applied research, and applications) addressing data product continuity issues resulting from the eventual loss of the Terra, Aqua, and Aura satellites (more). Release Date: March 1, 2023. Response Date: April 4, 2023.
Past Events
| DATE | EVENT | VENUE | WEBSITE |
| July 15-19, 2024 | Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 2024 | Boulder, CO, USA | QO3S |
| July 13-21, 2024 | 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly | Busan, Korea | COSPAR 2024 |
| July 7-12, 2024 | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2024 | Athens, Greece | IGARSS24 |
| July 1-5, 2024 | ESA ATMOS Conference 2024 | Bologna, Italy | ATMOS24 |
| June 17-21, 2024 | International Radiation Symposium 2024 | Hangzhou, China | IRS2024 |
| June 3-6, 2024 | OMI-TROPOMI Workshop |
Boulder, CO, USA | |
| May 29-31, 2024 | 20th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space (IWGGMS-20) | Boulder, CO, USA | IWGGMS-20 |
| May 13-16, 2024 | ACTRIS Science Conference 2024 | Rennes, France | ACTRIS24 |
| April 14-19, 2024 | European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2024 | Vienna, Austria | EGU24 |
| March 11-14, 2024 | TP Challenges International Conference | Mainz, Germany | TP Challenges24 |
| December 11-15, 2023 | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023 | San Francisco, CA, USA | AGU 2023 |
| November 13-17, 2023 | ESA-JAXA EarthCARE Pre-Launch Science and Validation Workshop | Frascati, Italy | EarthCARE-23 |
| October 24-27, 2023 | CEOS Atmospheric Composition Joint Meeting 2023 (AC-VC / WGCV ACSG) | Brussels, Belgium | ACVC-ACSG-2023 |
| October 10-11, 2023 | ESA Earth Explorer 11 User Consultation Meeting | Bucharest, Romania | E11 UCM |
| September 25-29, 2023 | Metrology for Meteorology and Climate 4th International Conference | Torino, Italy | MMC 2023 |
| September 11-15, 2023 | 2023 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference | Malmö, Sweden | MSC 2023 |
| September 11-15, 2023 | NDACC Steering Committee Meeting 2023 | Murnau, Germany | |
| July 16-21, 2023 | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2023 | Pasadena, CA, USA | IGARSS 2023 |
| July 4-6, 2023 | 19th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space (IWGGMS-19) | Paris, France | IWGGMS-19 |
| June 21-23, 2023 | Global Emissions InitiAtive (GEIA) 20th Conference | Brussels, Belgium | GEIA 2023 |
| June 5-9, 2023 | CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation 52nd Meeting | Frascati, Italy | WGCV-52 |
| May 22-26, 2023 | 12th Atmospheric Limb Workshop & SPARC LOTUS side meeting | Brussels, Belgium | LIMB 2023 |
| April 24-28, 2023 | European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2023 | Vienna, Austria | EGU 2023 |
| April 18-20, 2023 | Fifth SPARC TUNER (Towards Unified Error Reporting) Meeting | Karlsruhe, Germany | TUNER-05 |
| March 8-10, 2023 | TOAR-II Workshop 2023 | Cologne, Germany | TOAR-II 2023 |
| January 12-23, 2023 | 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting | Denver, CO, USA | AMS 2023 |
| December 12-16, 2022 | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022 | Chicago, IL, USA | AGU 2022 |
| October 24-28, 2022 | 7th SPARC General Assembly | Multi-hub event | SPARC GA 2022 |
| October 10-13, 2022 | Sentinel-5P Mission 5 Years Anniversary | Taormina, Italy | S5P-5YEAR |
| October 3-6, 2022 | CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation 51st Meeting | Tokyo, Japan | WGCV-51 |
| September 26-30, 2022 | BIPM / WMO Metrology for Climate Action Workshop | Online event | BIPMWMO22 |
| September 19-23, 2022 | 2022 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference | Brussels, Belgium | MSC 2022 |
| September 10-15, 2022 | iCACGP/IGAC joint International Atmospheric Chemistry Conference | Manchester, UK | IGAC 2022IGAC 2022 |
| July 16-24, 2022 | 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly | Athens, Greece | COSPAR 2022 |
| July 12-14, 2022 | 18th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space | Takamatsu, Japan | IWGGMS-18 |
| May 30 - June 3, 2022 | 11th International Workshop on Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere | Helsinki, Finland | TRENDS-11 |
| May 23-27, 2022 | European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2022 | Vienna, Austria | EGU 2022 |
| May 23-27, 2022 | ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022 | Bonn, Germany | LPS22 |
| May 9-11, 2022 | Copernicus Cal/Val Solution Workshop - Linking satellite and ground-based measurements for Cal/Val | Online event | CCVS In-situ |
| March 29-30, 2022 | ERADIATE workshop - Flexible open-source 3D EO radiative transfer model based on the Monte Carlo ray tracing technique | Online event | Workshop announcement |
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March 14-18, 2022 |
18th plenary meeting of the CEOS Atmospheric Composition Virtual Constellation (AC-VC-18) |
Online event |