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MTSAT Calibration Monitoring
Global Space-based Inter-calibration System (GSICS)
GSICS is one of the space components of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Its mission is to provide users with high-quality and inter-calibrated measurements from operational satellites.
Please see the GSICS portal operated by WMO for more details.
The MSC contributes to GSICS in its role as a GSICS Processing and Research Center (GPRC) for the MTSAT/GMS series.
Links to Other GSICS Processing and Research Centers (GPRCs)
GSICS for MTSAT
MTSAT Infrared Inter-calibration with High-spectral-resolution Sounders
Within the GSICS framework, MTSAT infrared data are operationally compared with those from high-spectral-resolution sounders, such as the AIRS equipment on the AQUA satellite and the IASI instrumentation on the Metop satellite.
For details of inter-calibration methods and results, please see the GSICS MTSAT infrared inter-calibration guide web page.
MTSAT-2 infrared inter-calibration was started on 11 May, 2010. Its inter-calibration system was constructed based on the MTSAT-1R system, but was updated to follow the latest GSICS conventions.