Metrology for Earth Observation and Climate 2 (MetEOC 2)

Abstract

Although not complete, the EMRP project MetEOC 1 (see other paper for this conference) has made major progress towards improving the traceability of remote sensing instrumentation and the direct physical measurands such as spectral radiance/reflectance. Whilst this is essential it is not enough to address the needs of the climate science community who are looking to monitor Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) which are in general biogeophysical parameters derived from the direct measurand through use of an additional retrieval algorithm. MetEOC 2 extends the scope of the work to address these needs.