1. NOAA Report WGISS – 37 Cocoa Beach, FL. U.S.
Martin Yapur
April 18, 2014

2. Agenda Agency Highlights NOAA Initiatives NOAA’s Value Tree
Data Management Activities
Recent Federal Activities
Other News

3. Agency Highlights Providing On-Orbit Satellite Operations
24/7 Satellite operations and product processing
Geostationary satellites (GOES)
GOOES 12 retired
Polar-orbiting satellites (POES)
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
DMSP is operated by NOAA on cost reimbursable basis for the U.S. Air Force
Jason-2 altimetry satellite with EUMETSAT, NOAA, CNES
Acquiring Next Generation Satellites
GOES–R Satellite Series
Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
DSCOVR (Solar Wind Continuity)
Jason-3 altimetry satellite
Providing Long Term Data Stewardship
Consolidating the National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanographic Data Center and National Geophysical Data Center
GOES
POES
Jason-2
GOES-R
JPSS
JPSS

4. GOES-R Overview 4 out 6 instruments delivered
Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS), and the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS)
Magnetometer and Geostationary Lightning Mapper, are scheduled for delivery later this year
GOES-R Launch Readiness Date*
Early 2016
Program Architecture
4 Satellites (GOES R,S,T&U), 10 year operational design life
Program Operational Life
FY 2017 – FY 2036
Program Life-cycle FY 2013 President’s Budget
$ billion
*Launch Readiness Date based on FY 2014 President’s Budget Request *

5. Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
S-NPP operating well, spacecraft and instruments healthy, cal/val progressing well and on schedule
JPSS-1 instruments are now in the environmental testing phase of development, bringing the satellite closer to its planned launch in early 2017
Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) and Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES)
Launch Readiness Date
FY 2017 (JPSS-1)*; FY 2021 (JPSS-2)
Program Architecture
2 Satellites (JPSS-1 and JPSS-2) & 2 free-flyer satellites
Program Operational Life
FY 2016 – FY 2028
Program Life-cycle FY 2013 President’s Budget
$12.9 billion
*Launch Readiness Date based on FY 2014 President's Budget Request

6. NOAA Initiatives Maximize return on observing system investments
New office to examine requirements across NOAA
Develop strategies to meet multiple requirements with a single investment
Determine the most effective mix of investments in observation and data management systems
Leverage domestic and international partnerships

7. NOAA “Value Tree” Single Period Analysis Chart description:
Top right section list all systems in the study, a checkmark indicates a given system is “turned on”
Top left section lists details about the highlighted node, in this case the GOALS node (node score, roll up rule, node color)
Levels of the value tree
NOAA (at the top of the tree, not included on this chart)
Goals (this top node for this chart, combines the Goals into one score. The other side of the tree which is not shown here contains the site information)
Weather Ready Nation and Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Goals
Goal Objectives (Reduce Loss of Life ……..)
Mission Service Areas
Data Sources and Tools
The black triangles at the bottom of the DS&T boxes indicates the input to those nodes is mapped from the site side of the tree.
NOSIA analysis determined NOAA’s current upper air observing performance is 76 on the scale (more precisely, 76.22).
The PALMA tool allows the user to visually examine the effects on NOAA’s value tree of turning off individual or combinations of observing systems.
Impacts can be explored through all levels of the value tree.

8. EOA Model Complete 13 Societal Benefit Areas, 300 SMEs, 4000+ nodes
OSTP-Earth Observation Assessment
EOA Model Complete 13 Societal Benefit Areas, 300 SMEs, nodes

9. Data Discoverability Activities
Establishment of NOAA Data Catalog
(in beta test)
Provides inventory per US Open Data Policy
Continued maintenance of subsidiary catalogs at each Data Center

10. Data Accessibility Activities
Data Access procedural directive in progress
EDMC work plan item
Started monthly telecons
Outline at
NWS Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP)
Planned Enterprise Geospatial Services
Operational hosting at NCEP for NWS & others
Unified Access Framework (UAF) – improved access to gridded obs & model outputs
Other implementations of standards-based services across NOAA

11. Data Usability Activities
Metadata training webinars
Conversion to ISO metadata standard at NODC
ATRAC metadata editor at NCDC
Metadata metrics & diagnostics at NGDC

12. Data Preservation Activities
Ongoing preservation & stewardship activities at NOAA National Data Centers
CLASS interface improvements (CSI, M2M)
Assignment of permanent dataset IDs
To encourage archiving
To enable citation
Work on Data Citation directive in progress
NOAA dataset IDs assigned to date:

13. Observing System of Record EDM Assessment
NOAA report to DAARWG
Observing System of Record EDM Assessment
Goal: For key NOAA observing systems, determine:
Data Center used for long-term preservation
Data Management plan existence/location
Metadata location & format
Data access services offered

14. NOAA DM Dashboard

15. Recent Federal Initiatives
Open Data Policy
(Exec. Order )
Public Access to
Research Results
(OSTP memo )
Business Data
Metadata
Publications
Research Data
Cataloging
Grantees
Online Services
Data
Citation
Open
Access
Standard
formats

16. Other News OSTP response to NOAA PARR Plan received
Overall agreement with plan
Asks that NOAA identify resources within budget
USGEO Data Management WG established
NOAA, NASA, USGS co-chairs
Discussion & compilation of policy & guidance
Big Data RFI issued by OCIO (due )
Public/private partnership for Cloud hosting & services
Big Earth Data Initiative
Funding for improved data discovery, access & use
$2M request for FY2015 ($9M in FY2014 not funded)

17. Mary Kicza is Retiring…

18. Thank You!