FW: Save the Date! Workshop on Optical Space Sensor Pre-flight Calibration and Characterisation (19-21 November 2024)
Tim Hewison
Dear GSICS Developer,
I’m sure many of you will be delighted to hear more details of this much awaited workshop – see below.
Best regards,
Tim Hewison
It’s time to block your calendars and register your interest to make sure you don’t miss out on the CEOS/GSICS Workshop on Optical Space Sensor Pre-flight Calibration and Characterisation, which is set to take place from 19-21 November 2024 at ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk, the Netherlands).
Over the last few years, agencies have expressed a strong desire for a ‘community workshop’ to share best practices, lessons learned, and to explore new calibration and characterisation methods, which can be both fit for purpose, cost effective, and lead to transparent, accessible information on expected sensor performance.
The intent is to hold an open access international workshop, encouraging participation from not only CEOS/GSICS member agencies but also instrument builders, ‘calibrators’, and users from industry and academia. By addressing the whole community, the workshop will seek to provide comprehensive information and strategies to support smooth transitions between on-ground calibration and pre-flight characterisation and the operational phase of missions.
The scope of the workshop will be limited to passive sensors operating in the solar reflective domain. That is, the workshop will cover all ‘optical related’ aspects of the pre-flight calibration/characterisation of the sensor and/or its on-board calibration/monitoring systems, e.g., radiometric gain, stray light, spectral response functions (incl. spectroscopic), linearity, polarisation etc.
More details will follow in the coming months, but in the meantime please mark your calendars for 19-21 November 2024 and bookmark the workshop website here. We have implemented a form so you can register your interest to ensure you remain in the loop.
The website will be updated with more information on the programme in due course. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Matt Steventon
On behalf of Philippe Goryl (CEOS WGCV Chair, ESA)
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