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Special Issue • Tentative Title: – Inter-calibration of Satellite Instruments • Proposed Guest Editors: – Gyanesh Chander (USGS) & Tim Hewison (EUMETSAT) Slide: 2

Choice of Journal 1. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing – – Highly rated journal Focuses on instrument design and calibration Page charges could be problematic (for >6 pages) Ed: Chris Ruf (GSICS Rep in GPM X-Cal) 2. Remote Sensing of the Environment – – Rated 1 st in Remote Sensing Ed: Marvin Bauer (UM), and Assoc Ed: P. J. Minnett (GRRHST) 3. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing – – Slide: 3 Guest Ed: G. Chander (GSICS & IVOS member) Page charges could be problematic

Tentative Timeline Proposed Schedule (Tentative Dates) Slide: 4 # Topic Date 1 Proposal submission to Editor-in-Chief June 1, 2011 3 Deadline for submission of manuscripts December 18, 2011 4 Peer review complete (by GSICS + IVOS + IEEE) March 17, 2012 5 Author revisions complete May 16, 2012 6 More review and revision if necessary June 15, 2012 7 Final manuscript submission to the press June 30, 2012 8 Page proofs to authors September 28, 2012 9 Page proofs returned October 13, 2012 10 Publication November 27, 2012

Partial List of Invited Papers (Provisional Topics) # Working Title Candidate Authors Hewison (EUMETSAT), Chander (SGT/USGS) 1 Overview/Introductory paper 2 Deep Convective Clouds 3 Liquid Water Cloud Method 4 Desert and Bright Land Surfaces Henry (CNES) et al. 5 Rayleigh Scattering Method Henry (CNES) et al. 6 Sun Glint Method 7 Moon Method 8 Star Method 9 Ray-Matching Method 10 Pseudo-Invariant Sites (CNES SADE Database) 11 COVE Tool 12 CEOS Comparison of Land Surface Reflectance (Tuz Golu Campaign Aug 18 -24, 2009) 13 CEOS Land Surface Imaging (LSI) Dome C Campaign (Dec 08 – Feb 09) 14 Aqua MODIS sensor as a reference for inter-calibration 15 Landsat Inter-calibration Lessons Learned 16 Landsat 7 ETM+ & Terra MODIS CEOS Reference Sites Spectral Band Adjustment Factor (SBAF) Corrections using EO-1 Hyperion and ENVISAT SCIAMACHY 17 GOES and AVHRR Inter-calibration Lessons Learned Wu (NOAA) et al. 18 ATSR & AATSR Inter-calibration Smith (RAL) et al. 19 MERIS Inter-calibration Slide: 5 Doelling (LRC) et al. Sohn (SNU) et al. Heidinger (NOAA) et al. Stone (USGS) et al. Wu (NOAA) et al. Doelling (NASA) et al. Henry (CNES) et al. Killough (NASA) et al. (Tubitak/NPL) + Participants Cao (NOAA/NESDIS) + Participants Xiong (NASA/GSFC) et al. Helder (SDSU) et al. Chander (SGT/USGS) et al. Bouvet (ESA/ESTEC) et al.