ITSC-19 Program
Wednesday 26 March 2014
| 8.30-9.00 | Welcome | Co-chairs Mitch Goldberg, Niels Bormann |
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| An Overview of KMA | Dr. Jae-Gwang Won (20 minutes) | |
| Local Arrangements | Dohyeong Kim, B.J. Sohn | |
| Review of agenda | Co-chairs |
| 9.00-9.45 Session 1a: New observing systems (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Hank Revercomb and Dieter Klaes | ||
| 1.01 | Yong Han | CrIS SDR Calibration and Cross-sensor Comparisons |
| 1.02 | William L. Smith | The May 2013 SNPP Cal/Val Campaign: Validation of Satellite Soundings (paper) |
| 1.03 | Lihang Zhou | Updates on the Performance of Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Data Products |
| 9.45-10.00 Session 1b: New observations (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Hank Revercomb and Dieter Klaes | ||
| 1p.01 | Xin Jin | Monitoring Suomi-NPP CrIS instrument Status and Data Quality at NOAA |
| 1p.02 | Xingpin Liu | JPSS EDR Product Long-term Monitoring |
| 1p.03 | Allen Larar | The Suomi NPP airborne field campaign and preliminary NAST-I radiance results |
| 1p.04 | Hank Revercomb (for Joe Taylor) | Suomi NPP/JPSS Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS): Calibration Validation With The Aircraft Based Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) |
| 1p.05 | Hank Revercomb (for David Tobin) | CrIS Radiometric Calibration: Uncertainty Estimates and Evaluations |
| 1p.06 | Yong Chen | CrIS Full Resolution Processing and Validation System (CRPVS) for JPSS (paper) |
| 1p.07 | Scott Mindock | CSPP Suomi NPP SDR 1.4 |
10:00-10:30 BREAK (incl. poster-viewing session 1b)
| 10.30-11.45 Session 1c: New observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Nigel Atkinson and Allen Larar | ||
| 1.04 | Fuzhong Weng | Advances in ATMS Sensor Data Record (SDR) Sciences |
| 1.05 | Zhengkun Qin | Analysis of ATMS Striping Noise from its Earth Scene Observations |
| 1.06 | Chris Barnet | Implementation of the NOAA Unique CrIS/ATMS processing System (NUCAPS) within the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) |
| 1.07 | Bomin Sun | Procedures to Validate S-NPP Sounding Products using Conventional and Reference/Dedicated Observations |
| 1.08 | S. Indira Rani | Simulation and Validation of INSAT-3D Imager and Sounder data at NCMRWF (paper) |
| 11.45-12.00 Session 1d: New observations (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs:Nigel Atkinson and Allen Larar | ||
| 1p.08 | Fuzhong Weng (for Lin Lin) | Validation of ATMS Radiance Using GPS RO and Radiosonde Data |
| 1p.09 | Simone Costa | Recent implementation and use current products and processing packages for Suomi/NPP Instruments at CPTEC/INPE |
| 1p.10 | Reima Eresmaa | Assimilation of Cross-track Infrared Sounder radiances at ECMWF (paper) |
| 1p.11 | Ana Fernandez del Rio (for Robin Faulwetter) | Assimilation of ATMS data at DWD |
| 1p.12 | Heather Lawrence | An update on the assimilation of ATMS data at ECMWF (paper) |
| 1p.13 | Fiona Smith (for James Cameron) | Assessment and assimilation of MetOp-B IASI |
| 1p.14 | Dorothée Coppens | Inter-comparison between IASI and other Multi-spectral Instruments: One Year of Dual-METOP Data (paper) |
| 12.00-12.30 | Welcome by KMA | Dr. Yunhwa Ko, Adminstrator of KMA |
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| Welcome by WMO | Dr. David Grimes, President of WMO |
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster-viewing session 1d
| 14.00-15.15 Session 1e: New observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Peng Zhang and Ken Holmlund | ||
| 1.09 | Peng Zhang | The latest progress of FY-3C |
| 1.10 | Qifeng Lu | The data quality and performance of four FY-3 instruments for NWP |
| 1.11 | Wei Han (for Peiming Dong) | Inter-comparison of data characteristics and impact on NWP of FY-3B NPP and NOAA18 Microwave observation (paper) |
| 1.12 | Eric Péquignot (for Elsa Jacquette) | Performance status of IASI on MetOp-A and MetOp-B |
| 1.13 | Dorothée Coppens | Assessment of IASI Radiances during the SALSTICE Campaign (paper) |
| 15.15-15.30 Session 1f: New observations (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Peng Zhang and Ken Holmlund | ||
| 1p.15 | Keyi Chen | Assessment of Chinese Satellite FY3A/B MWHS (paper) |
| 1p.16 | Ling Wang | Retrieval and validation of water vapor from FY3C MERSI near-infrared channels |
| 1p.17 | Pascal Brunel | Mapping CrIS field of view onto VIIRS |
| 1p.18 | Geoff Cureton | VIIRS EDR Products in the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) |
| 1p.19 | Tom Rink | Analyzing VIIRS and CrIS Data with HYDRA2 (paper) |
| 1p.20 | Yi Song | A BUFR and GRIB Tailoring System for NPP/JPSS and GCOM Products |
15:30-16:00 BREAK (incl. poster-viewing session 1f)
| 16.00-16.30 Session 2a: Processing and Dissemination (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Allen Huang, Jerome Lafeuille and Ken Carey | ||
| 2.01 | Liam Gumley | Recent developments with the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) |
| 2.02 | Kathleen Strabala | International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP): Proof of the Utility of Polar Orbiter Data to Environmental Forecasters |
| 16.30-16.45 Session 2b: Processing and Dissemination (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Allen Huang, Jerome Lafeuille and Ken Carey | ||
| 2p.01 | Nigel Atkinson | AAPP status report for ITSC-19 |
| 2p.02 | Nigel Atkinson | Experiences with reception and processing of direct broadcast FY-3A and FY-3B data |
| 2p.03 | Graeme Martin | Introducing CSPP GEO: A Geostationary Satellite Data Processing Package for Direct Broadcast Users |
| 2p.04 | Dieter Klaes (for Thomas Heinemann) | EUMETSAT’s global and regional services for sounder data |
| 2p.05 | Liam Gumley | NOAA Real-Time Network for Receiving and Processing Infrared and Microwave Sounder Data with Low Latency |
| 2p.06 | withdrawn | |
| 2p.07 | Su-Hyun Jung | Operational Processing of Satellite Sounding Data at NMSC |
| 2p.08 | Xiaoxu Tian | Detection of Radio Frequency Interference in Global Microwave Imager Data |
| 16.45-17.25 Session 3a: Future Observing Systems (Agency poster introductions – 5 minutes: 2 slides) Chairs: Allen Huang, Jerome Lafeuille and Ken Carey | ||
| SP.1 | Jerome Lafeuille | WMO perspective (poster) |
| SP.2 | Dieter Klaes | EUMETSAT Plans (poster) |
| SP.3 | Kozo Okamoto | JMA and JAXA Plans (poster) |
| SP.4 | Mitch Goldberg | NOAA |
| SP.5 | Peng Zhang | China |
| SP.6 | Ashim Mitra | India |
| SP.7 | Alexander Polyakov (for Alexander Uspensky) | Russia |
| 17.25-17.40 Session 3b: Future Observing Systems (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Allen Huang, Jerome Lafeuille and Ken Carey | ||
| 3.01 | Francisco Bermudo | IASI-NG program: a New Generation of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| 17.40-17.50 Session 3c: EPS-SG (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Allen Huang, Jerome Lafeuille and Ken Carey | ||
| 3p.01 | Joerg Ackermann | EPS-SG: Overview of Mission and Products |
| 3p.02 & 3p.03 | Stéphane Rousseau | IASI-NG system overview |
| 3p.04 | Stéphane Rousseau (for Frédéric Bernard) | IASI-NG Instrument Presentation |
| 3p.05 | Javier Andrey-Andres | A step towards IASI-NG: Simulation of orbits and first impact assessment compared to IASI (paper) |
19.30 Welcome dinner
Thursday 27 March 2014
| 08.30-9.45 Session 4a: Radiation transfer (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Louis Garand and Pascal Brunel | ||
| 4.01 | Nicole Jacquinet | The GEISA spectroscopic database: a key tool for atmospheric remote sensing applications |
| 4.02 | Quanhua (Mark) Liu | Community Radiative Transfer Model Updates and Applications |
| 4.03 | James Hocking | Update on RTTOV developments |
| 4.04 | Stephan Havemann | The Havemann-Taylor Fast Radiative Transfer Code (HT-FRTC) for hyperspectral, broadband and line-by-line radiance and flux simulations |
| 4.05 | Raymond Armante (for Noelle A. Scott) | Lessons learnt from the validation of level1 and level2 hyperspectral sounders observations |
| 9.45-10.00 Session 4b: Radiative Transfer (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Louis Garand and Pascal Brunel | ||
| 4p.01 | Ju-Hye Kim | Intercomparison of RTTOV and CRTM: Simulated radiances of AMSU-A and microwave scattering solver |
| 4p.02 | Pascale Roquet | A graphical user interface for RTTOV |
| 4p.03 | Cristina Lupu | Evaluation of RTTOV-11 in the IFS |
| 4p.04 | Jeon-Ho Kang | The comparison of vertical interpolation methods for the KIAPS observation processing system |
| 4p.05 | Raymond Armante | 4A/OP : A fast and accurate operational forward radiative transfer model for the TIR and the SWIR |
10:00-10:45 BREAK (incl. poster-viewing sessions 2b, 3c, 4b)
| 10.45-11.45 Session 5a: Surface studies (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Kathleen Strabala and Fuzhong Weng | ||
| 5.01 | Masahiro Kazumori | Use of the Ocean Surface Wind Direction Signal in Microwave Radiance Assimilation (paper) |
| 5.02 | Louis-Francois Meunier | Impact of whitecap coverage derived from a wave model on the assimilation of radiances from microwave imagers (paper) |
| 5.03 | Louis Garand | Assimilation of infrared surface sensitive channels over land and sea ice at Environment Canada |
| 5.04 | Alexander V. Polyakov | Retrieval of atmospheric profiles and surface parameters from METEOR-3M IR- and MW-sounders data |
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster-viewing session 5b
| 14.00-14.45 Session 6: NWP centre reports (poster introductions – 3 minutes: 1 slide) Chairs: Kozo Okamoto and Fiona Smith | ||
| NWP.1 | Sangwon Joo (KMA) | Current status and plan of the satellite data assimilation at Korea Meteorological Administration |
| NWP.2 | Akira Okagaki (JMA) | Recent developments in satellite data assimilation at JMA |
| NWP.3 | Stephen English (ECMWF) | Recent changes in the ECMWF NWP system |
| NWP.4 | Chantal Cote (Environment Canada) | Status of the Operational Global Deterministic Prediction System at Environment Canada |
| NWP.5 | Roger Randriamampianina (MET Norway) | Use of ATOVS and IASI radiances in the HARMONIE data assimilation |
| NWP.6a,NWP.6b | Louis-Francois Meunier | Overview of the infrared radiance assimilation in the Meteo-France models/Ongoing developments on the use of microwave sounders and imagers at Meteo-France (poster a) (poster b) |
| NWP.7 | Andrew Collard (NCEP) | Progress and plans for the use of radiance data in the NCEP global and regional data assimilation systems |
| NWP.8 | Christina Köpken-Watts (DWD) | Developments in satellite data assimilation at DWD |
| NWP.9 | William Bell (Met Office) | Overview of developments in the use of sounder data at the Met Office (paper) |
| NWP.10 | Luis Gustavo de Goncalves (CPTEC) | Evaluation of the new Global 3DVar Operational System at CPTEC/INPE |
| NWP.11 | Indira Rani (NCMWRF) | Real-time use of Atmospheric Sounding data at NCMRWF: Current and Future plans |
Action Items from ITSC-18
Moderators: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
14.45-15.00 CGMS report (Mitch Goldberg)
15.00-15.30 Working group action items from ITSC-18 (15 minutes)
15.30-16.00 BREAK (incl. poster-viewing session 6)
16.00-17.00 Working group action items from ITSC-18 (15 minutes)
- NWP (Andrew Collard and Fiona Smith)
- International and Future Systems (Jerome Lafeuille and Stephen English)
- Advanced Sounders (Dieter Klaes and Bill Smith)
- Products and Software (Nigel Atkinson, Liam Gumley, Nathalie Selbach)
17.00-17.15 Technical sub-group reports and formation (5 minutes each)
- Direct broadcast packages (Liam Gumley)
- RARS (Jerome Lafeuille)
17.15-17.30 Working group formation
17.30-18.30 Technical Sub-Groups
- RTTOV (James Hocking)
- CRTM (Mark Liu)
- RARS and direct broadcast packages (Jerome Lafeuille and Liam Gumley)
Friday 28 March 2014
| 08.30-10.15 Session 7a: Advanced IR: dissemination and assimilation (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Luis Gustavo de Goncalves and Andrew Collard | ||
| 7.01 | Marco Matricardi | Direct assimilation of Principal Component data for operational Numerical Weather Prediction (paper) |
| 7.02 | Fiona Smith | Improved Assimilation of Hyperspectral Sounder Reconstructed Radiances |
| 7.03 | Youngchan No | IASI channel selection for the Unified Model data assimilation system |
| 7.04 | Reima Eresmaa | Implications of observation error correlation on the assimilation of interferometric radiances (paper) |
| 7.05 | Stephanie Guedj | An Observing System Simulation Experiment to evaluate the future benefits of MTG-IRS data in a fine-scale weather forecast model |
| 7.06 | Kenneth Holmlund | Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding Missions – Future perspectives for data dissemination |
| 7.07 | Nigel Atkinson | Challenges in data compression for current and future imagers and hyperspectral sounders (paper) |
| 10.15-10:30Session 7b: Advanced IR: assimilation (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Luis Gustavo de Goncalves and Andrew Collard | ||
| 7p.01 | Louis Garand (for Sylvain Heilliette) | Assimilation experiments using non-diagonal observation error covariances at Environment-Canada |
| 7p.02 | William Bell (for Peter Weston) | Accounting for Correlated Observation Errors in the Assimilation of High Resolution Sounder Data |
| 7p.03 | William Bell (for Peter Weston) | Assimilating IASI data into the Met Office UKV convective scale model |
| 7p.04 | Su Jin Ha | IASI quality control at KIAPS and preliminary results |
| 7p.05 | Ji-Sun Kang, Byoung-Joo Jung | IASI radiance data assimilation within KIAPS-LETKF system |
| 7p.06 | Akira Okagaki | Assimilation of AIRS and IASI radiances at JMA global NWP system |
| 7p.07 | Jun Li (for Jing Zheng) | Assimilation of Atmospheric Temperature and Moisture Soundings from AIRS for Hurricane Forecasts in regional NWP |
10:30-11:00 BREAK (incl. poster-viewing session 7b)
| 11.00-12.00 Session 8a: Retrieval studies (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Bill Smith and Xu Liu | ||
| 8.01 | Thomas August | The operational IASI L2 at EUMETSAT |
| 8.02 | Antonia Gambacorta | The NOAA Operational Hyper Spectral Retrieval Algorithm: a cross-comparison among the CrIS, IASI and AIRS processing systems (paper) |
| 8.03 | Nadia Smith | An Overview of the UW Hyperspectral Retrieval System for AIRS, IASI and CrIS (paper) |
| 8.04 | Xu Liu | Explicit Retrieval of Cloud and Atmospheric Properties From CrIS, IASI and AIRS Hyperspectral Data |
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-14.00 Poster-viewing session 8b
| 14.00-15.15 Session 9a: Assimilation studies: clouds (Oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Stephen English and Sangwon Joo | ||
| 9.01 | Stephen English (for Alan Geer and Fabrizio Baordo) | All-sky assimilation of MHS and HIRS sounder radiances |
| 9.02 | Tom Auligne | Improved Initialization and Prediction of Clouds with All-Sky Satellite Radiances |
| 9.03 | Nadia Fourrie | New developments for the use of microphysical variables for the assimilation of IASI radiances in convective scale models (paper) |
| 9.04 | Will McCarty | Characterizing the Impact of Hyperspectral Infrared Radiances near Clouds on a Global Atmospheric Analysis |
| 9.05 | Jun Li | Handling clouds for hyperspectral infrared radiance assimilation |
15.45-16.15 BREAK (incl. poster-viewing session 9b)
| 16.15-17.00 Session 10a: Assimilation studies (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Christina Köpken-Watts and Quanhua (Mark) Liu | ||
| 10.01 | Wei Han | Constrained variational bias correction for satellite radiance assimilation |
| 10.02 | Yanqui Zhu | Variational Bias Correction in the NCEP Data Assimilation System (paper) |
| 10.03 | Anna Booton | An improved bias correction for SSMIS (paper) |
17.30 Icebreak with poster-viewing of session 10b and all other poster-sessions so far
Saturday 29 March 2014
| 9.00-12.30 | Working Groups (with break 10:15-10:45) |
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| 12.30-13.30 | LUNCH |
| 13.30-18.00 | Working groups |
Sunday 30 March 2014
| 9.00-16.00 | Working groups |
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| Evening | Working groups finalise reports |
Monday 31 March 2014
| 08.30-9.30 Session 11a: Assimilation studies (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: William Bell and Nadia Fourrie | ||
| 11.01 | Cristina Lupu | The impact of satellite data within the ECMWF system |
| 11.02 | Nadia Fourrie (for Vincent Guidard) | Using Forecast Senstivity to Observations to adapt IASI channel selection |
| 11.03 | Hyun Mee Kim | Estimation of satellite observation impact to numerical weather forecast using adjoint-based method |
| 11.04 | Xiaolei Zou | Satellite Radiance Assimilation in HWRF |
10.00-10.45 BREAK (incl. poster-viewing session 11b)
| 10:45-11:45 Session 12a: Climate (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Thomas August and Thierry Phulpin | ||
| 12.01 | B.J. Sohn | Use of long-term MSU/AMSU data to examine the weakening of Walker Circulation in CMIP5 climate simulations |
| 12.02 | Fuzhong Weng (for Cheng-Zhi Zou) | Recalibration of Stratospheric Sounding Unit for Climate Reanalysis Applications |
| 12.03 | Gerrit Holl | SPARE-ICE: synergistic IWP from passive operational sensors |
| 12.04 | Nathalie Selbach | The CM SAF ATOVS tropospheric water vapour and temperature data record |
| 11.45-11.55 Session 12b: Climate (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Thomas August and Thierry Phulpin | ||
| 12p.01 | Nathalie Selbach | CHARMe: Characterization of Metadata to enable high-quality climate applications and services |
| 12p.02 | Nathalie Selbach | Climate Data Records of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring |
| 12p.03 | Nathalie Selbach | The GEWEX water vapour assessment (G-VAP) – first results from inter-comparisons and stability analysis |
| 12p.04 | Viju John | Error characterisation of SSM/T2 radiances |
| 12p.05 | Viju John | Inter-calibration of METEOSAT IR and WV channels |
| 12p.06 | Pascal Brunel (for Paul Poli) | Assessment of the Nimbus-4 IRIS dataset (1970-1971) for use in reanalysis |
| 11:55-12:10 Session 13a: Composition (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Thomas August and Thierry Phulpin | ||
| 13.01 | Eric Pequignot | Retrieval of atmospheric temperature, water vapour and trace gases at a vertical and horizontal kilometric resolution using an infrared tomographic imager combining nadir and limb views |
| 12.10-12.25 Session 13b: Composition (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Thomas August and Thierry Phulpin | ||
| 13p.01 | Raymond Armante (for Cyril Crevoisier) | Several decades of observation of mid-tropospheric CO2 from ATOVS, AIRS and IASI |
| 13p.02 | Raymond Armante (for Cyril Crevoisier) | A view on mid-tropospheric CH4 in the tropics: 6 years from MetOp-A/IASI |
| 13p.03 | Rebecca Cintineo | IDEA-I Air Quality Forecast Software Package: Aerosol, Ozone, and Carbon Monoxide Detection and Trajectories (paper) |
| 13p.04 | Raymond Armante (for Virginie Capelle) | Evaluation of IASI derived dust aerosols characteristics over the topical belt |
| 13p.05 | Sang-Moo Lee | Asian-dust detection over ocean from IR 11-um channel measurement |
| 13p.06 | Zhiquan Liu | A Case Study on Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis and Saharan Air Layer Simulated Using WRF/Chem Coupled with an AOD Data Assimilation System (paper) |
| 13p.07 | Hal Bloom (for Mark Schoeberl) | The Geostationary Remote Infrared Pollution Sounder: Measurement of the Carbon Gases from Space |
12.25-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-14.00 Poster-viewing session 12b and 13b
| 14.00-15.15 Session 14a: Climate studies with advanced IR sounders (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Nathalie Selbach and B.J. Sohn | ||
| 14.01 | Thierry Phulpin | A climatology of IASI radiance spectra to monitor global climate change (paper) |
| 14.02 | Raymond Armante (for Cyril Crevoisier) | Processing of Aqua/AIRS and Metop-A/IASI to study essential climate variables |
| 14.03 | Eric J. Fetzer | Variability in Eleven Years of AIRS Version 6 Observations |
| 14.04 | Robert Knuteson | Stratospheric Temperature Monitoring Using a Collocated IR/GPSRO Dataset |
| 14.05 | Hank Revercomb | Absolute Radiance Interferometer (ARI): A prototype spaceflight instrument for achieving GSICS and CLARREO goals |
| 15.15-15.20 Session 14b: Climate studies with advanced IR sounders (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Nathalie Selbach and B.J. Sohn | ||
| 14p.01 | Joe K. Taylor | The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center Absolute Radiance Interferometer (ARI): Predicted and Demonstrated Radiometric Performance |
| 14p.02 | Jonathan Gero | On-Orbit Absolute Radiance Standard for the Next Generation of IR Remote Sensing Instruments |
15.20-17.00 BREAK and poster-viewing session 11b, 12b, 13b, 14b
Tuesday 1 April 2014
09.00-10.15 Session 15: Working Group Reports (15 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- RT (Marco Matricardi, Yong Han)
- Climate (Viju John, Thierry Phulpin)
- NWP (Fiona Smith, Andrew Collard)
10.15-10.45 BREAK
10.45-12.00 Session 15: Working Group Reports (15 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- Advanced Sounders (Dieter Klaes, Bill Smith)
- International and Future Systems (Stephen English, Jerome Lafeuille)
- Products and Software (Liam Gumley, Nigel Atkinson, Nathalie Selbach)
12.00-12.30 Session 16: Technical Sub-Group Reports (5 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- Direct broadcast packages (Liam Gumley)
- RTTOV (James Hocking)
- CRTM (Mark Liu)
- RARS (Jerome Lafeuille)