This effort will help in identifying risks and needs for advancement and will promote calibration efforts by CEOS Agencies.
In 2014, IOCCG undertook a relevant "agency mapping" exercise that included consideration of available, and planned, international agency assets and resources for OCR cal/val. ?As a first step towards implementation of the International Network for Sensor Inter-comparison and Uncertainty assessment for Ocean Colour Radiometry (INSITU-OCR) by IOCCG member agencies, the IOCCG asked that each agency indicate on the spreadsheet their potential area of contribution to INSITU-OCR implementation. ?At the 3-5 March 2015 IOCCG meeting, IOCCG asked the member agencies to provide an agency-based list of infrastructure and assets. IOCCG has collated this information. ?Once formatted IOCCG will submit to CEOS. ?Ewa Kwiatkowska (EUMETSAT) attended the WG-Cal/Val Meeting on behalf of the OCR-VC/IOCCG earlier this year, and will continue representing the OCR-VC in these meetings. ?At this meeting it was agreed to strengthen cooperation between OCR-VC/IOCCG and WGCV through IOCCG having a permanent seat on WGCV plenaries and through WGCV?s review and endorsement of relevant IOCCG recommendations expressed in the documents such as INSITU-OCR White Paper and Report #13.