William C Straka III, CIMSS/SSEC, United States; Mitch Goldberg, Sean Helfrich, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; William Sjoberg, GST, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, United States; Jay Hoffman, CIMSS/SSEC, United States; Donglian Sun, Sanmei Li, GMU, United States; Vincent Decker, Canada Centre For Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resource Canada, Canada; Ian Olthof, Environment Canada, Canada; Qingyuan Zhang, UMD, United States; Qing Yang, Xinyi Shen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States