ITSC-20 Program
Wednesday 28 October 2015
8:30-9:00 | Welcome | Mitch Goldberg, Niels Bormann (ITWG Co-chairs) |
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Welcome by SSEC An Overview of SSEC | Hank Revercomb | |
Local Arrangements | Jonathan Gero | |
Review of agenda | Mitch Goldberg, Niels Bormann (ITWG Co-chairs) |
9:00-10:00 Session 1a: Cal/val of new and current observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Paul Menzel and Peng Zhang | ||
1.01 | Qifeng Lu | FY-3C evaluation overview: CMA, ECMWF and UKMO |
1.02 | Nigel Atkinson | The FY-3C evaluation project: microwave sounder calibration and direct broadcast experiences (paper) |
1.03 | Heather Lawrence | Evaluating and assimilating microwave humidity sounding data from China’s FY-3C MWHS-2 instrument in all-sky conditions at ECMWF |
1.04 | Fabien Carminati | Assimilation of observations from the Microwave Humidity Sounders on board China’s FY-3B and FY-3C Meteorological Satellites (paper) |
10:00-10.15 Session 1b: Cal/val of new and current observations (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Paul Menzel and Peng Zhang | ||
1p.01 | Qifeng Lu | Characterizing FY-3C Microwave Temperature Sounder MWTS2 |
1p.02 | Keyi Chen | Assessment of FY-3A and FY-3B/MWHS observations |
1p.03 | Erin Jones | Assimilating Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR Data in the NOAA GDAS |
1p.04 | Masahiro Kazumori | Recent activities on microwave radiance data assimilation at JMA |
1p.05 | Stu Newman | Assimilation of AMSR2 radiances at the Met Office |
1p.06 | Kevin Garrett (for Zaizhong Ma) | HIMAWARI-8 AHI radiance assimilation with GSI at JCSDA |
1p.07 | Dorothee Coppens (for Bertrand Theodore) | Characterisation of AHI IR channels with IASI measurements |
1p.08 | Sanjeev Kumar Singh | The Impact of INSAT-3D Sounder Radiance Assimilation in the NCMRWF Global Forecast System (T574L64) |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 1b
10:45-12:15Session 1c: Cal/val of new and current observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Dieter Klaes and William Bell | ||
1.05 | Sergey Uspensky | An initial assessment of microwave imager/sounder MTVZA-GY data from Meteor-M N2 satellite (paper) |
1.06 | Alexander Polyakov | IRFS-2 instrument onboard Meteor-M N2 satellite: measurements analysis (paper) |
1.07 | Yong Han | CrIS Full Spectral Resolution SDR and S-NPP/JPSS-1 CrIS Performance Status |
1.08 | Fuzhong Weng | Updates on Operational Processing of ATMS TDR and SDR Products |
1.09 | Erin Jones | Assimilating New Passive Microwave Data in the NOAA GDAS |
1.10 | Indira Rani | Impact of Megha-Tropique’s SAPHIR humidity profiles in the Unified Model Analysis and Forecast System (paper) |
12:15-12:30 Session 1d: Cal/val of S-NPP observations(poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs:Dieter Klaes and William Bell | ||
1p.09 | Hu Yang | Antenna Emissivity Correction for ATMS Calibration Bias Characterization (paper) |
1p.10 | Xiaolei Zou | Striping Noise Analysis and Mitigation for ATMS, GMI and MWTS Data |
1p.11 | Yong Chen | Evaluation of Different Calibration Approaches for JPSS CrIS |
1p.12 | Yong Chen | SI Traceable Algorithm for Characterizing Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder CrIS Noise |
1p.13 | Aronne Merrelli | True Ringing Artifacts in Unapodized FTS Measurements |
1p.14 | Xiaozhen (Shawn) Xiong | Update on S-NPP CrIS Full Spectral Resolution SDR Processing at NOAA/STAR (paper) |
1p.15 | Yi Song (for Walter Wolf) | Preparation for the Full Resolution CrIS Hyperspectral Radiance Data in BUFR Format |
1p.16 | Likun Wang | Accurate Collocation of VIIRS measurements with CrIS |
1p.17 | withdrawn |
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 1d
14:00-14:15 Session 1e: Cal/val of new and current observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Eva Borbas and Louis Garand | ||
1.11 | Stephen English | A report on the outcomes of a workshop aimed at improved understanding of biases observed in analysis of 183 GHz observations |
14:15-15:00Session 2a: Radiative transfer (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Eva Borbas and Louis Garand | ||
2.01 | Jerome Vidot | High resolution IR cloudy radiances simulations : comparison between RTTOV and VLIDORT |
2.02 | Virginie Capelle (for Raymond Armante) | Interactive use of the new generation of TIR and SWIR space-borne instruments to increase the performance of radiative transfer models, spectroscopic and atmospheric databases (4A, GEISA, TIGR, ARSA) |
2.03 | Cristina Lupu | An evaluation of radiative transfer modelling errors in AMSU-A data |
15:00-15:15 Session 2b: Radiative transfer (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Eva Borbas and Louis Garand | ||
2p.01 | James Hocking | Update on RTTOV developments |
2p.02 | Pascale Roquet | Addition of 1D-VAR retrieval to RTTOV-GUI (paper) |
2p.03 | Paul van Delst | An update on CRTM developments |
2p.04 | Yingtao Ma | Development of the Community Line-By-Line radiative transfer Model (CLBLM) |
2p.05 | Nicole Jacquinet | The GEISA spectroscopic database in 2014: context and contents |
2p.06 | withdrawn | |
2p.07 | Qiguang Yang | Ultrafast High Accuracy PCRTM_SOLAR Model for Cloudy Atmosphere |
2p.08 | Olaf Stiller (for Leonhard Scheck) | A fast forward operator for the assimilation of visible SEVIRI observations in KENDA-COSMO |
2p.09 | Cristina Lupu | Monitoring infrared satellite radiance biases using the ECMWF model |
15:15-15:45 BREAK and poster viewing 2b
15:45-16:30 Session 3a: Processing packages and direct broadcast applications (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Nigel Atkinson and Sergey Uspensky | ||
3.01 | Kathleen Strabala | NASA International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP): Supporting the Aqua and Terra Direct Broadcast Community for 15+ Years |
3.02 | Liam Gumley | Support for NOAA, NASA, EUMETSAT, and CMA satellites and sensors in CSPP |
3.03 | Elisabeth Weisz | Assessing Hyperspectral Retrieval Algorithms and their Products for Use in Direct Broadcast Applications (paper) |
17:00 Icebreaker
Thursday 29 October 2015
08:30-9:45 Session 4a: Retrievals (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Elisabeth Weisz and Nicholas Nalli | ||
4.01 | Antonia Gambacorta | Status of the NOAA hyper spectral retrieval system: algorithm development and lessons learned from recent field campaigns (paper) |
4.02 | Nicholas Nalli (for Quanhua (Mark) Liu) | NUCAPS products validations |
4.03 | Thomas August | The operational IASI L2 products version 6: status, applications and developments |
4.04 | William Smith | The Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles from Satellite Radiances for NWP Data Assimilation (paper) |
4.05 | Virginie Capelle | Dust infrared aerosol properties observed from infrared hyperspectral sounders: Analysis of the diurnal variation |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 3b, 4b
10:45-12:00 Session 5a: Assimilation of hyperspectral IR (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Fiona Smith and Luis Gustavo de Goncalves | ||
5.01 | Andrew Collard | Improved use of CrIS Radiances at NCEP |
5.02 | William F Campbell | Accounting for Correlated Satellite Observation Error in NAVGEM |
5.03 | Niels Bormann | Enhancing the impact of IASI observations through an updated observation error covariance matrix |
5.04 | Hyoung-Wook Chun | A physically based observation error covariance matrix for IASI |
5.05 | Benjamin Ruston | Improvements in the Use of Humidity from Hyperspectral IR |
12:00-12:15 Session 5b: Assimilation studies (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Fiona Smith and Luis Gustavo de Goncalves | ||
5p.01 | Fiona Smith | Met Office use of CrIS, IASI and AIRS |
5p.02 | Reima Eresmaa | Assimilation of spectrally-adjacent pairs of IASI channels |
5p.03 | Vincent Guidard | Using realistic ozone fields for the assimilation of IASI data |
5p.04 | Agnes Lim (for Yan’an Liu) | Assimilation of AIRS radiances in regional model and its impact of typhoon forecast |
5p.05 | Louis Garand | Impact of inter-channel radiance observation error correlations in Environment Canada’s EnVar data assimilation system |
5p.06 | Heather Lawrence | Scene-Dependent Observation Errors for AMSU-A in the ECMWF system |
12:15-12:30 Group photo
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 5b
Action Items from ITSC-19
Moderators: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
14:45-14:55 CGMS report (Mitch Goldberg) PPT PDF
14:55-15.40 Working group action items from ITSC-19 (10 minutes)
- NWP (Fiona Smith and Andrew Collard)
- Radiative transfer and surface properties (Marco Matricardi and Paul van Delst)
- Climate (Nathalie Selbach and Cheng-Zhi Zou)
15:40-16.00 BREAK
16:00-16:40 Working group action items from ITSC-19 (10 minutes)
- Advanced Sounders (Dieter Klaes and Bill Smith)
- Products and Software (Nigel Atkinson and Liam Gumley)
- International and Future Systems (Jerome Lafeuille and Stephen English)
16:40-17:05 Special topics (10 minutes each)
- Guide to the Direct Broadcast Network for Near Real-Time Relay of LEO Satellite Data (DBNet) (Jerome Lafeuille)
- Spectrum over the next four years (Richard Kelley)
17:05-17:25 Technical sub-group reports (5 minutes each)
- Direct broadcast packages (Liam Gumley)
- RTTOV (James Hocking)
- CRTM (Paul van Delst)
- Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties (Ben Ruston)
17:25-18.30 Technical Sub-Group Meetings
- RTTOV (James Hocking)
- CRTM (Paul van Delst)
- RARS/DBNet and direct broadcast packages (Jerome Lafeuille and Liam Gumley)
Friday 30 October 2015
8:30-10:00 Session 7a: Climate (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Antonia Gambacorta and Hank Revercomb | ||
7.01 | Cheng-Zhi Zou | SSU Climate Data Record Verifying Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory |
7.02 | Martin Burgdorf | Reprocessing of Fundamental Climate Data Records From Microwave Sounders |
7.03 | Paul Menzel | The UW SSEC/CIMSS Global Clear Sky Infrared Moisture Products derived from HIRS data |
7.04 | Nadia Smith | The consistency between measured radiance and retrieved profiles at climate scales – a study in uncertainty propagation |
7.05 | Jacola Roman | Measurement Requirements and Current Capabilities for Satellite Remote Sensing of Precipitable Water Vapor |
7.06 | Timo Hanschmann | Three decades of cloud properties from HIRS: a new climate dataset by CMSAF |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 6 and 7b
10:45-12:00 Session 8a: Clouds (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Stephen English and Ben Ruston | ||
8.01 | Yanqiu Zhu | Configuration of All-sky Microwave Radiance Assimilation in the NCEP’s GFS Data Assimilation System (paper) |
8.02 | Haixia Liu | Variational cloud-clearing with CrIS data at NCEP |
8.03 | Jun Li | Progress on the assimilation of advanced infrared sounder radiances in cloudy skies |
8.04 | Reima Eresmaa | Developments in clouds and aerosols detection for infrared radiance data |
8.05 | Kevin Garrett | 1DVAR Preprocessor Applications for Satellite Data Assimilation: Quality Control, Background Adjustment, and Cloud Radiance Assimilation |
12:00-12:30Session 8b: Clouds (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Stephen English and Ben Ruston | ||
8p.01 | Emily Huichun Liu | The Validation of Observation Operator and Single Observation Experiments for Microwave Radiances under All-sky Condition in NCEP Assimilation System (paper) |
8p.02 | Jason Otkin (for Sharon Nebuda) | Assessing the Accuracy of Cloudy Sky Infrared and Microwave Brightness Temperatures in the GFS |
8p.03 | Xiaoyan Zhang | Assimilation of All-sky SEVIRI Radiance Data in NCEP Hourly-update NAM System |
8p.04 | Reima Eresmaa (for Julie Letertre-Danczak) | The detection of dust in infrared radiance spectra |
8p.05 | Olaf Stiller | Application of observation cross-validation method to IASI cloud screening |
8p.06 | Thomas S. Pagano | Assessing and improving IR sounder radiances in cloudy scenes using imager radiances |
8p.07 | Andrew Heidinger | Merger of Imager and Sounder Data for Improved Cloud Height Estimation |
8p.08 | Andi Walther | Consistency of reflected moonlight based nighttime precipitation product with its daytime equivalent |
8p.09 | Bozena Lapeta | The quality of H-SAF ATOVS based precipitation products over Poland |
8p.10 | Dirceu L. Herdies | Combination of Satellite Precipitation Estimates and Rain Gauge for high Spatial and Temporal Resolutions (paper) |
8p.11 | withdrawn |
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 8b
14:00-15:15 Session 9a: Assimilation of hyperspectral IR and impact studies (Oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Vincent Guidard and Andrew Collard | ||
9.01 | Fiona Smith | Observing System Experiments with IASI Reconstructed Radiances |
9.02 | Marco Matricardi | Toward the NWP assimilation of the full IASI spectrum: recent experience using principal component data |
9.03 | Javier Andrey-Andrés | Assimilation of IASI radiances as from Principal Components IASI product in AROME |
9.04 | Mohamed Dahoui (for Tony McNally) | Observation impact studies |
9.05 | Sid Boukabara | Impact Assessment of Potential Gaps in the Satellite Constellation on NOAA’s Global NWP |
15:15-15:25 Session 9b: Assimilation of hyperspectral IR and impact studies (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids)Chairs:Vincent Guidard and Andrew Collard | ||
9p.01 | James Jung | Infrared and Microwave Data Addition Observing System Experiment Impacts using the NCEP Global Forecast System |
9p.02 | Helena Barbieri de Azevedo | Data impact assessment using G3DVAR |
9p.03 | Camila Cossetin Ferreira | Assessing the AMSUA impacts in the CPTEC/INPE regional ensemble prediction system |
9p.04 | Luis Gustavo Goncalves De Goncalves | A rapid update data assimilation cycle over South America using 3DVar and EnKF |
15:25-16:15 BREAK and poster viewing for 1b, 1d, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6, 7b, 8b, 9b, 10b
16:15-17:00 Session 10a: Surface studies (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Fuzhong Weng and Marco Matricardi | ||
10.01 | Glynn Hulley | MEaSUREs High Spectral Resolution MODIS/ASTER Emissivity Database |
10.02 | Louis Garand | Assimilation of surface sensitive infrared channels over land at Environment Canada |
10.03 | Niama Boukachaba | Improved assimilation of IASI data over continent in the convective scale AROME model (paper) |
17:00-17:30 Session 10b: Surface studies (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Fuzhong Weng and Marco Matricardi | ||
10p.01 | Eva Borbas | A Unified and Coherent Land Surface Emissivity Earth System Data Record |
10p.02 | Rory Gray | Development of a Dynamic Infrared Land Surface Emissivity Atlas based on IASI Retrievals |
10p.03 | Bruna Barbosa Silveira | Assessment of the land surface microwave emissivity in the CPTEC/INPE GSI Global 3DVar Data Assimilation System |
10p.04 | Stu Newman | Enhanced use of AMSU-A radiances over land |
10p.05 | Fabrizio Baordo | Assimilation of microwave humidity sounding channels over sea-ice at ECMWF (paper) |
10p.06 | Brunna Romero Penna | The role of skin temperature in the three-dimensional variational assimilation global system of CPTEC/INPE |
10p.07 | Suping Nie | An assimilation study based on FY-3B MWRI soil moisture data using the EnKF |
10p.08 | Byung-il Lee | Improvements to Accuracy for COMS SST and SSI products, and their Impact in KMA’s NWP system |
10p.09 | Robert Knuteson | Combined Imager and IR Sounder Observations of LST over the Greenland Ice Sheet |
Saturday 31 October 2015
9.00-12.30 | Working Groups (Break at 10:30-11:00) Advanced Sounders (Dieter Klaes and Bill Smith) Climate (Nathalie Selbach and Cheng-Zhi Zou) Radiative transfer and surface properties (Marco Matricardi and Paul van Delst) |
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Sunday 1 November 2015
9.00-12.30 | Working Groups (Break at 10:30-11:00) NWP (Fiona Smith and Andrew Collard) Products and software (Nigel Atkinson and Liam Gumley) International (Jerome Lafeuille and Stephen English) |
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Evening | Working Groups finalise reports |
Monday 2 November 2015
08:30-10:00 Session 11a: Assimilation studies (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Indira Rani and Steve Swadley | ||
11.01 | James Cameron | The testing and planned implementation of VarBC at the Met Office (paper) |
11.02 | Anna Booton | An improved bias correction for SSMIS: Assimilation Assessment (paper) |
11.03 | Tanya Maurer | Assimilation Impacts of SSMIS Upper Atmosphere Soundings with Improved Orbital Bias Predictors in NAVGEM |
11.04 | Takumu Egawa | Assimilation of ATMS radiances into the JMA’s global NWP system |
11.05 | Hyojin Han | Improving tropical cyclone forecasts by assimilating microwave sounder cloud-screened radiances and the GPM precipitation measurements |
11.06 | Olaf Stiller | Cross-validation methods for quality control, cloud screening, etc. |
10:00-10:15 Session 11b: Assimilation studies (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Indira Rani and Steve Swadley | ||
11p.01 | Nancy Baker | An Assessment of the Impact of DMSP SSMIS Microwave Sounder and Imager Assimilation for Global Numerical Weather and Wave Forecasting |
11p.02 | Stephen Macpherson | Assimilation of ATMS data at Environment Canada |
11p.03 | Jinlong Li | A near real time regional satellite data assimilation system for high impact weather studies |
11p.04 | Pei Wang | The impact of the high temporal resolution GOES/GOES-R moisture information on severe weather systems in a regional NWP model |
11p.05 | Wei Han | Constrained bias correction for satellite radiance assimilation in limited area model considering model diurnal bias |
11p.06 | Roger Randriamampianina | Towards operational use of satellite radiances in an Arctic mesoscale model |
11p.07 | Patrik Benacek | Radiance bias correction in LAM |
11p.08 | Robin Faulwetter | Feedback processes between radiances and the ICON model |
11p.09 | Mohamed Dahoui | Automatic data checking system at ECMWF |
10:15-10:45 BREAK and poster viewing 11b
10:45-12:15 Session 12a: Validation and applications of sounding data (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Sid Boukabara and Thomas August | ||
12.01 | Xavier Calbet | Consistency for water vapour between GRUAN RS92 Sondes, LBLRTM and IASI |
12.02 | Bomin Sun | Characteristics of radiosonde observations and their impact in satellite sounding product validation |
12.03 | Xavier Calbet (for Tony Reale) | Integrating Uncertainty in Atmospheric Profile Validation |
12.04 | Michelle Feltz | Comparisons of IR Sounder and COSMIC RO Temperatures: Guidance for CrIS NUCAPS Validation |
12.05 | Chris Barnet | The use of temperature and water vapor profiles for weather applications: recent activities in the NOAA/JPSS Proving Ground |
12.06 | Joe K. Taylor | Calibration Validation Of The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) With The Aircraft Based Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) |
12:15-12:25 Session 12b: Validation and applications of sounding data (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Sid Boukabara and Thomas August | ||
12p.01 | Bomin Sun (for Tony Reale) | GCOS Reference Upper Air Network |
12p.02 | Bill Bell | The EU’s GAIA-CLIM project |
12p.03 | Jonathan Gero | Sea-based Infrared Radiance Measurements of Ocean and Atmosphere from the ACAPEX/CalWater2 Campaign |
12p.04 | Vincent Guidard | Atmospheric profile retrievals from IASI in the framework of the Concordiasi campaign |
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Poster viewing 12b
14:00-14:30 Session 13: Space agency reports (Space agency poster introductions – 5 minutes: 2 slides) Chairs: Allen Huang and Jerome Lafeuille | ||
13p.01 | Peng Zhang | Fengyun meteorological satellites and their contribution to NWP |
13p.02 | Dieter Klaes | EUMETSAT Systems and Plans (poster) |
13p.03 | Alexander Uspenskiy | Russian meteorological polar satellite Meteor-M N2: instrument performance assessment and data applications |
13p.04 | Mitch Goldberg | NOAA Report on Current and Planned Activities |
13p.05 | Kozo Okamoto | Status report of space agency: JMA and JAXA (poster) |
14:30-15:30 Session 14a: Future observations (oral presentations – 12 minutes) Chairs: Allen Huang and Jerome Lafeuille | ||
14.01 | Hank Revercomb | The Absolute Radiance Interferometer (ARI): Capable of climate Benchmark quality IR measurements from a CLARREO Pathfinder on ISS |
14.02 | Eric Pequignot | IASI-NG processing overview |
14.03 | Agnes Lim | Impact Analysis of LEO Hyperspectral Sensor IFOV size on the next generation high-resolution NWP model forecast performance |
14.04 | Brian H. Kahn | Why observe temperature, water vapor, and cloud structures with high-spectral-resolution infrared observations at 1-km horizontal scales? |
15:30-15:45 Session 14b: Future observations (poster introductions – 1 minute: no visual aids) Chairs: Allen Huang and Jerome Lafeuille | ||
14p.01 | Bjorn Lambrigtsen | The development of a U.S. geostationary microwave sounder |
14p.02 | Francisco Bermudo | IASI-NG Program: General Status Overview |
14p.03 | Adrien Deschamps | Strategy for the validation of IASI-NG Level 1 processing |
14p.04 | Myriam Peyre (for Javier Andrey-Andrés) | Evaluation of IASI-NG impact on NWP and atmospheric chemistry compared to IASI |
14p.05 | Denis Tremblay | Correlated and Uncorrelated noise of the JPSS-1 Crosstrack Infrared Sensor (CrIS) |
14p.06 | Byung-il Lee (for Su Jeong Lee) | Evaluation of sounding capability of the next generation Imager of Korea using the Advanced Himawari Imager data |
14p.07 | Zhenglong Li | Exploring Value-added Impact from Geostationary Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder on Hurricane Forecasts |
15:45-16:45 BREAK and poster viewing 10b, 11b, 12b, 13, 14b
17:00-17:30 Working groups finalise reports
Tuesday 3 November 2015
9:00-10:15 Session 15: Working Group Reports (15 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- RT (Marco Matricardi and Paul van Delst)
- Climate (Nathalie Selbach and Cheng-Zhi Zou)
- NWP (Andrew Collard and Fiona Smith)
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 and Bill Smith)
- International and Future Systems (Stephen English and Jerome Lafeuille)
- Products and Software (Liam Gumley and Nigel Atkinson)
12:00-12:30 Session 16: Technical Sub-Group Reports (5 minutes)
Co-chairs: Mitch Goldberg and Niels Bormann
- RARS/DBNet and Direct broadcast packages (Jerome Lafeuille and Liam Gumley)
- RTTOV (James Hocking)
- CRTM (Paul van Delst)