Workshop on Pre-flight Calibration and Characterisation of Optical Satellite Instruments for Earth Observation
Start Date:
Nov. 19, 2024
End Date:
Nov. 22, 2024
City:
Noordwijk
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Description:
The workshop seeks to bring together, experts from industrial and academic developers of instruments, those specifying, designing and performing calibration and characterisation as well as scientists, engineers, New Space actors, agencies and funding organisations interested in: what is and/or might be possible for a next generation instrument or future application. The workshop will be organised to encourage discussion and debate on what is ‘fit for purpose’ for particular types of application.
Topics include UV-SWIR and TIR
- Future Calibration / Characterisation Requirements
- Principles of Calibration / Characterisation / Traceability / Uncertainty and its Documentation / Reporting
- Spectral Response Function / Bandwidth / Wavelength / Smile (Discrete bands & Spectrometers)
- Stray Light (Out-of-Field, Out-of-Band), Point Spread Function, Ghosts, Scattered
- Radiometric Gain / Non-Linearity / Polarisation Sensitivity
Targeted Audience:
The workshop seeks to bring together, experts from industrial and academic developers of instruments, those specifying, designing and performing calibration and characterisation as well as scientists, engineers, agencies and funding organisations interested in: what is and/or might be possible for a next generation instrument or future application.
Expected Outcomes:
The conclusions of the workshop will result in the publication of a CEOS WGCV and CGMS-GSICS ‘guidance document’ proposing minimal/desirable characterisation requirements and the means (methods/facilities) to achieve them for various application and instrument types. The guidance will extend to consider optimum ways to document and report calibration and characterisation information, including the associated uncertainties and traceability to SI, in a manner that facilitates transparency to all stakeholders in a standardised manner. The guidance document, to be published within a year of the workshop, will focus on the solar reflective domain but may add an appendix on the TIR.
