IOCS 2023 Presentations

Training Sessions

• Training Session 1: SeaDAS Training
• Training Session 2: NOAA CoastWatch Tutorial On Ocean Satellite Data Products and Tools
• Training Session 3: Ocean colour match-up analyses with OLCI: ThoMaS toolkit
• Training Session 4: SeaHawk-HawkEye Ocean Color CubeSat mission
• Training Session 5: MAPEO-water: in the cloud processing for drone water applications
• Training Session 6: HyperCP: a best practice community processor for above-water radiometry

Opening Session

• 9:00 – 9:30 IOCCG Overview – Shubha Sathyendranath

Oral Session 1

• 9:30 – 10:15 Keynote 1: Ocean Color Remote Sensing – the Beginnings: CZCS. Howard Gordon
• 10:30 – 11:00 Recap of previous recommendations. Cara Wilson

Agency Presentations

• 11:00 – 11:15 Emerging applications & science from NASA. Laura Lorenzoni (NASA, USA)
• 11:15 – 11:30 NOAA ocean color science & applications. Menghua Wang (NOAA, USA)
• 11:30 – 11:45 Canadian ocean colour activities. Geneviève Gariépy (CSA, Canada)
• 11:45 – 12:00 Status of SABIA-Mar mission and ocean applications of CONAE. Carolina Tauro (CONAE, Argentina)

Poster Session 1

• 1:00 – 2:30 Lightning presentations for Poster Session 1

Breakout Workshop 1

Beyond Chlorophyll-a: New trophic state indicators for optically complex waters

Daniel Odermatt, Michael Sayers, Astrid Bracher

Breakout Workshop 2

Remote sensing of aquatic litter and debris

Madeline Cowell, Shungu Garaba

Breakout Workshop 3

Inventory of current ocean colour mission validation activities

Lachlan McKinna, Jeremy Werdell

Oral Session 2

• 8:30 – 9:15 Keynote 2: Hijacking other thematic satellite sensors for ocean colour application. Astrid Bracher
• 9:15 – 9:30 Reports from Breakout workshops 1, 2, 3
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop # 1 – Beyond Chla
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop # 2 – Remote sensing of aquatic debris
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop # 3 – Inventory of current OC missions

Poster Session 2

• 9:30 – 10:45 Lightning presentations for Poster Session 2

Agency Presentations

• 10:45 – 11:00 Progress in China’s OC satellite missions & remote sensing application technologies. Xianqiang He (SIO, China, pre-recorded)
• 11:00 – 11:15 Ocean Colour science and applications at ISRO. PV Nagamani (ISRO, India)
• 11:15 – 11:30 Australian Ocean Colour activities. Mark Baird (CSIRO, Australia)
• 11:30 – 11:45 JAXA GCOM-C research and applications. Hiroshi Murakami (JAXA, Japan)
• 11:45 – 12:00 GOCI-II, current status, validation and applications. Jongkuk Choi (KIOST, Republic of Korea)

Oral Session 3

• 1:00 – 1:45 Keynote 3: A Glow from Below: Bioluminescent Milky Seas and their Role in the Earth System. Steven D Miller

Poster Session 3

• 1:45 – 2:30 Lightning presentations for Poster Session 3

Breakout Workshop 4

Global carbon budget for the land to ocean aquatic continuum (LOAC) from remote sensing

Hubert Loisel, Claudia Giardino

Breakout Workshop 5

The Value of Ocean Color for the Benefit of Society: status and change in water quality and ecosystems

Veronica Lance, Merrie Neely

Breakout Workshop 6

Ocean Colour Satellite Sensor Calibration

Chair: Gerhard Meister

• 2:30 Gerhard Meister: Introduction
• 2:40 Gerhard Meister: OCI on the PACE mission: prelaunch calibration overview
• 2:55 Jeff Mcintire: Pre-launch Measurements of PACE OCI Response Versus Scan Angle
• 3:10 Shihyan Lee: PACE OCI pre-launch crosstalk characterization
• 3:25 Ludovic Bourg: OLCI Level 1 Processor & Products Recent and Coming Evolutions
• 3:45 Break
• 4:00 Jack Xiong: NOAA-21 Reflective Solar Bands Calibration and Performance
• 4:15 Myung-Sook Park: GOCI-II calibration for long term data stability
• 4:30 Hiroshi Murakami: SGLI Offset correction
• 4:40 Robert Frouin: Cross-calibration of ocean color sensors using TOA radiances from geostationary sensors
• 4:55 Gerhard Meister: Outlook
• 5:00 Adjourn

Oral Session 4

• 8:30 – 9:15 Keynote 4: Societal application of ocean colour to fisheries information service. Srinivasa Kumar Tummala
• 9:15 – 9:30 Reports from Breakout workshops 4, 5, 6
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop # 4 – Land to Ocean Carbon Continuum
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop # 5 – Value of Ocean Colour
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop # 6 – OC Satellite Sensor Calibration

Poster Session 4

• 9:30 – 11:00 Lightning presentations for Poster Session 4

Agency Presentations

• 11:00 – 11:15 Ocean Colour application & research at ESA. Marie-Hélène Rio (ESA) 
• 11:15 – 11:30 Ocean Colour activities in NCEO. Steve Groom (NCEO, UK)
• 11:30 – 11:45 Ocean Colour application & research at CNES. Hubert Loisel (CNES, France)
• 11:45 – 12:00 EUMETSAT’s Ocean Colour application and research activities. Juan Ignacio Gossn (EUMETSAT)

Oral Session 5

• 1:00 – 1:45 Keynote 5: Ocean Color In Latin America, Ecosystem Function, Citizen Science, and Community Development. Marina Marrari

Poster Session 5

• 1:45 – 2:30 Lightning presentations for Poster Session 5

Breakout Workshop 7

Priority list of marine biodiversity metrics to observe from space

Victor Martinez Vicente, Frank Muller-Karger, Alice Soccodato

Breakout Workshop 8

Achieving long-term consistency in cross-sensor ocean color data products

Brian Barnes, Frédéric Mélin, Kelsey Bisson

Breakout Workshop 9

Lidar applications for ocean color

Cédric Jamet, Davide Dionisi, Peng Chen

Oral Session 6

• 8:30 – 9:15 Keynote 6: Monetizing Ocean Color? Ajit Subramaniam
• 9:15 – 10:15 Panel Discussion: Economics of the Ocean.
  Chair: Paula Bontempi. Panelists: Ajit Subramaniam, Jim Sullivan, Žarko Kovač

Poster Session 6

10:15 – 11:15 Lightning presentations for Poster Session 6

Closing Session

• 11:15 – 11:30 Reports from breakout workshops 7, 8 and 9
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop #7 – Biodiversity metrics
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop #8 – Longterm consistency in cross-sensor pr0ducts
  Summary presentation from Breakout workshop #9 – Lidar

• 11:30 – 12:30 Community Town Hall (all Agency Representatives)
• 12:20 – 12:30 Closing Remarks (Shubha Sathyendranath)