NDE 1 Title Page NDE Jim Silva, NDE Project Manager July 12, 2006 NPOESS Data Exploitation Project Mission Overview 2006 Southern Region SOO Workshop

NDE 2 Hello Jim Silva, Meteo Tech Fairbanks WFO Summer 1981

NDE 3 NESDIS Organization Chart NDE Project Dan Stockton Charles Baker

NDE 4 Key Process Environ- ment External Entity External Entity Data Flow External Data Flow NDE Project Overview NOAA Environmental Satellite Processing Center (ESPC) NOAA OPERATIONAL CUSTOMERS (NWS, NOS, NMFS, NESDIS, OAR & external users) OPERATIONAL CUSTOMERS (NWS, NOS, NMFS, NESDIS, OAR & external users) NOAA-Unique Products Tailored Products Long-Term Archive (CLASS) Long-Term Archive (CLASS) Tailoring Tools Data Records (generic) NPOESS Ground System NPOESS Ground System NOAA-Unique Products NPOESS will deliver more than 100 different data records Data Records (generic) NPOESS Data Exploitation (NDE) Data Records (generic) NDE Project Mission: Assist NOAA and other civilian customers to realize the full potential of NPP & NPOESS observations

NDE 5 NDE Objectives Objectives –Disseminate NPP and NPOESS Data Records –Provide services to customers – NDE product training, and customer-driven product enhancements –Provide format conversion software –Generate and disseminate tailored NPOESS Data Records –Generate and disseminate NOAA-unique products –Deliver NOAA-unique products to the Long Term Archive –Develop a sustainable system that meets it’s customer needs

NDE 6 Examples of NPP NOAA Unique Products Blended Snow Products from VIIRS, ATMS and GOES Vegetation - weekly or biweekly global map of green vegetation fraction and leaf area index, drought index, vegetation health Hazard Geographic Information System (GIS) products - Smoke, Fire, Aerosols, Flash Flood, Precipitation Coastwatch Products - Ocean Color, Coral Bleaching and SST Blended Ocean Products – Color and Altimeter, or Winds Daily global, regional maps (gridded data) of all EDRs and SDRs for the science community and for validation

NDE 7 AWIPS – NWS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System NWP centers –Joint Center (NCEP, DAO, Navy, Air Force) –ECMWF, UK Met Office, Meteo France, Japanese Met. Service NOAA Coast Watch and Ocean Watch Hazard community (US Forest Service) Dept. of Agriculture FAA (Volcanic Ash) EUMETSAT (Metop/IJPS) Major Customers of Near-Real Time NDE Products

NDE 8 Satellite to Sensor Cross-reference SATELLITE LAUNCH NODAL TIME NPP Oct C C *VIIRS (IR/Vis imager) XXX *Conical M/W Imager/Sounder X *CrIS (IR Temp Sounder) XX * ATMS (microw water/temp profiler XX OMPS Nadir (ozone profiler) XX Space Env Sensor X SARSAT X CERES X

NDE 9 FY10FY11FY12 Totals New Products Tailored xDRs ATMS Radiances - VIIRS Radiances - OMPS Radiances - Cloud Mask - SST - Ozone Profile - Ozone Total Column - Snow Cover - Imagery - Ocean Color - Veg Index - Active Fires - Atmos Temp Profile - Atmos Moisture Profile - Aerosol Opt Thickness - Surf Type & Veg Cover - Surface Albedo - Cloud Cover/Layers - Aerosol Particle Size - Cloud Top Temp - Cloud Top Pressure - Land Surface Temp (VIIRS) NOAA- Unique CrIS Radiances - Total Precip Water - Snow Cover (ATMS) - Precip Rate - Surf Emissivity - Cloud Liquid Water - Sea Ice Concentration - Snow Water Equivalent - Ice Water Path -Land Surf Temp - Blended Snow Cover - Regional Ocean Color - Blended SST - SST Anomalies - Coral Reef Deg Heating - Coral Reef Bleaching - Tropical Rainfall Potential - Veg Fraction - Hazard Support (Tropical) - Hazard Support (Volcano) - Out Long Radiation (CrIS) - Blended Ozone - VIIRS Cloud Drift Winds - Out Long Radiation (VIIRS) - Absorbed Radiation - Rainfall - Cloud Cleared Radiances (CrIS) - Clear Sky Radiances (VIIRS) - Veg Health - Veg Moisture - Drought Indices - Veg Thermal Conditions - Leaf Area Index - Fire Potential - SST (AVHRR-like) - Aerosol (AVHRR-like) NOAA’s NPP Product Requirements (NOSA, IORD, & Recent Survey) To back up N-Prime and continue current missions; 43 POES and 2 EOS mission continuity products ought to be available to users by 2013 To Prepare for Transition to NPOESS’ High Resolution Observations; 14 Developmental Products ought to be available as prototypes

NDE Monitoring Tropical Storms Using Imagery

NDE Drought/Vegetation Health Time Series of US and State Drought-afflicted Area Percent of area under stress

NDE Hazard Support Products Volcanic ash graphical analysis Smoke Fire Floods Volcanic Ash Advisory Center

NDE Snow Cover Validation Operational daily product Trend in yearly average N.A. snow extent

NDE CoastWatch/OceanWatch Products: SST

NDE Gulf Stream Prediction at NCEP with Ocean Color

NDE CoastWatch/OceanWatch Products: Chlorophyll MODIS Ocean Color

NDE Harmful Algal Bloom Detection 90 Day Running AverageOcean Color ImageAnomaly Image

NDE 18 NDE Collaborative IT Efforts Newly established NDE Design Team beginning collaboration with –AWIPS Disseminate near-real time products using AWIPS’ next generation Communications/Distribution Architecture –CLASS Extend CLASS (data archive) architecture & user interface to permit online ordering of near-real time products, Help, Service Requests

NDE 19 Helpful Reference Sites NOAA’s NPOESS Home Page The NDE Project Home Page / 2005 Polar Max Conference NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Contact: Jim Silva, ( ) or Geof Goodrum (- 4417), or Stan Cutler (-4658)

NDE 20 BACKGROUND

NDE 21 NPOESS SafetyNet: Near-Continuous Delivery SafetyNet: 15 globally distributed receptors linked via commercial fiber

NDE 22 Timely Delivery of NPOESS Products New Products Higher Quality Improved Communications –NOAA Line Offices will rely on NDE to provide the NPOESS observations in near-real time CIVILIAN CUSTOMERS CIVILIAN CUSTOMERS NDE NPOESS GS Mission data Data records in BUFR Data records in GeoTIFF New NPOESS products NOAA-unique products Generic HDF5 data records 35 Minutes 156 Minutes Current POES Data Processing Mission data POES Satellite Observation NPOESS Satellite Observation

NDE 23 Payloads: VIIRS Imagery of clouds under sunlit conditions in about a dozen visible channels (or frequency bands) Coverage in a number of infrared channels for night and day cloud imaging applications. Multi-channel imaging: - hurricanes - detection of fires, smoke, and atmospheric aerosols Higher resolution and more accurate measurements - sea surface temperature - ocean color observations - derived ocean color products VIIRS - Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite - Collects visible and infrared radiometric data of the Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and land surfaces. Data types include atmospheric, clouds, Earth radiation budget, land/water and sea surface temperature, ocean color, and low light imagery. - Multiple VIS and IR channels between 0.3 and 14 microns - Imagery Spatial Resolution: NADIR / EOS

NDE 24 Payloads: CrIS & ATMS CrIS - Crosstrack Infrared Sounder measures Earth's radiation to determine the vertical distribution of temperature, moisture, and pressure in the atmosphere Temperature profile: 18.5 km at nadir Moisture profile: 15 km at nadir Pressure profile: 55 km at nadir 1 Kelvin / 1 km layers (Current HIRS accuracy of 2 to 3 degrees Kelvin) ATMS - Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (used with CrIS) Baseline 22 microwave sounding channels ATMS (conceptual illustration)

NDE 25 Payloads: OMPS OMPS - Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite collects data to permit the calculation of the vertical and horizontal distribution of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere. total column and vertical profile ozone data two separate spectrometers. Nadir Mapper measures the scene radiance between 300 and 380 nanometers (nm) with a resolution of 1 nm sampled at 0.42 nm and a 24-hour ground revisit time The limb sensor measures the along-track limb scattered solar radiance with 1 km vertical sampling in the spectral range of 290 to 1000 nm.

NDE 26 Payloads: SESS SESS - Space Environment Sensor Suite collects data related to the neutral and charged particles, electron and magnetic fields, and optical signatures of aurora auroral boundary, auroral energy deposition, auroral imagery, electric field, electron density profile, geomagnetic field, in-situ plasma fluctuations, in-situ plasma temperatures, ionospheric scintillation, neutral density profile, medium energy charged particles, energetic ions, supra-thermal to auroral energy particles

NDE SATELLITEPROCESSINGSYSTEMSATELLITEPROCESSINGSYSTEM DATA DISTRIBUTION IMAGE DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATED PROCESSING INTERACTIVE PROCESSING ARCHIVE PROCESSING GOES 35.2GB DMSP 7.6GB OTHER SOURCES 80.57GB POES 5.2GB ARGOS/DCS SEARCH & RESCUE SEM AMSU SSM/I, SSM/T, T-2 Selected data/products USERS USMCC SEL/NGDC U.K. NOAA DOD ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SEARCH & RESCUE SOLAR MONITORING TEMP&MOISTURE SNDGS ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SHARED PROCESSING WEFAXGOES BROADCAST OZONE SST SOUNDING CLOUD WINDS NCEP, NASA NCEP MODEL, GTS REMAPPED IMAGERY NOAAPORT SPECIAL AWIPS, INTERNET INTERNET FORECAST GUIDANCE AREA MONITORING, SPECIAL EVENTS GOES SOUNDINGS MOISTURE ANALYSIS CLOUD TOP TEMPS GLOBAL WINDS RAINFALL EST SNOW WILDFIRES VOLCANO SEA ICE NCEP SAB, NCEP SAB,NIFC, USFS,NWS SAB, FAA, ICO, ICAO, NWS NIC, USCG, NAVY, NWS FORECAST GUIDANCE FORECAST GUIDANCE, FORECAST GUIDANCE, OPERATIONAL PLANNING LEVEL 1B POLAR SYNOPTIC GOES GOES EVENT GOES CONUS PRODUCT FILES SAA, NCDC NCDC SAA, NCDC USER ACCESS FORECAST GUIDANCE RESEARCH FORECAST GUIDANCE NESDIS Product Dissemination

NDE 28 NESDIS’ Near-real Time Operations Manages and directs the operation of the central ground facilities that ingest, process, and distribute environmental satellite data and derived products to domestic and foreign users Serves as the primary operating level interface with civil sector users of data from operational environmental satellites Provides interpretive and consultative services to those users and is responsible for the transmission of data products to remote receiving stations Provides for the collection of environmental data from remote platforms using POES and Metop satellites Manages the Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) System and is responsible for coordinating and implementing the United States activities in the international satellite aided search and rescue program, COSPAS-SARSAT