Mathew Gunshor
Mat Gunshor began working at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 1997. He started as a Research Intern after completing his M.S. in Physical Oceanography from the Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, LA (1997) and B.S. In Ocean Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN (1993). His current title with the university is Researcher III.
He has over 25 years of experience working on various GOES projects as a project lead, project manager, and Principal Investigator (PI). He has worked on projects that include post-launch checkouts of the GOES-I through -M and GOES-NOP series, intercalibration of GEO-LEO, GOES-R Series ABI band selection studies, and GeoXO Imager formulation studies. He has been the CIMSS Project Team Lead on the GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG) ABI Imagery Team since 2008, leading the CIMSS team through the processes of product conceptualization, ATBD writing, pre-launch testing, post-launch testing and first light imagery generation, peer-stakeholder product validation reviews (PS-PVRs), and ongoing imagery product monitoring. Imagery is the Key Product Parameter (KPP) for the GOES-R Program, considered the most necessary program product for the National Weather Service (NWS) and other users.
He has over 25 years of experience in the design, development, and execution of GOES calibration and validation studies. He was the Principal Investigator of GEO-LEO intercalibration studies using NOAA Low Earth Orbiting AVHRR and HIRS to intercalibrate the international suite of geostationary imagers in the late 1990s through early 2000s. This work led to the establishment of the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS), an international collaborative effort initiated in 2005 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) to “monitor, improve and harmonize the quality of observations from operational weather and environmental satellites of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS).” He has been a member of the GOES-R Calibration Working Group (CWG) since 2012.
His other experiences include being either the PI or project lead on training, outreach, GOES weighting function web page development, ABI instrument waiver analysis, ABI proxy data generation, and more. He was the PI on the development and execution of GOES-R pre- and post-launch trainings, such as AMS short courses, including for broadcast meteorologists, and the development of training materials for use in COMET and NWS training resources.