The GHRSST Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Validation (STVAL) Working Group (STVAL WG)
Welcome to the STVAL working group pages. The STVAL working group is responsible for assessing the uncertainty and usuability of the L2P SST products provided by GHRSST.
The objectives of the STVAL group are:
- To establish and promote guidelines for satellite SST validation
- To coordinate discussions on validation techniques
- To draft a set of common guidelines
- To objectively examine GHRSST-PP L2P data and to provide meaningful SSES for users
- To coordinate and homogenize the quality information in L2P between producers
The group's activities involve:
- Validation using in situ thermometry
- QC of in situ data
- Guidelines for producing match-ups (generation of MDB)
- Production of SSES
- Agree common guidelines for SSES
- Validation using in situ radiometry
- Calibration traceability to standards
- Guidelines for producing match-ups
- Inter-comparisons
- Validation using reference satellite sensor
- QC of reference sensor
- Methodologies
Further details on these topics are provided in the accompanying pages.
The STVAL WG is an open informal group to which anyone may provide input.
Please contact the STVAL coordinator Gary Corlett for more information if you would like to contribute to the STVAL WG.
(Last Updated: 28-01-2010)