1. Session 2: Improved Situational Awareness Sixth Meeting of the Science Advisory Committee 28 February – 1 March 2012 Future Activities National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, AL transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to operations

2. Summary and Conclusions Very high priority to further enhancing AWIPS II capabilities – Moving beyond simply visualizing data in AWIPS II – Developing advanced visualization and interrogation capabilities E.g.: Lightning tracker, which also can be used on other data sets Increasing role in supporting NOAA activities – Primarily for GOES-R, but includes VIIRS SPoRT remains committed to our WFO partners – Continue visits to partner offices and potential collaborators – Coordination calls, training, and assessments – Establish the virtual workshop as an annual collaboration – Push for increased blog posts and input transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to operations

3. Looking Forward: Current Projects Expanding use of total lightning data – Closer ties with DCLMA and other networks – Prepare for role in GLM era Incorporating VIIRS into SPoRT product suite – Include with hybrids and RGBs Expanded role of SPoRT Hybrid and RGB products – Upcoming training modules – Preparing for additional evaluations Greater collaborations with training organizations – Preparations for the Operations Proving Ground transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to operations Suomi NPP

4. Looking Forward: New Projects Continuing to expand passive microwave activities – AMSR-2 – Existing instruments – TRMM TMI – SSMI, SSMI/S Multiple activities – Improved data access with NRL – Developing training – Begin transitions for assessment AMSR-2 transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to operations

5. Looking Forward: New Projects NASA’s suit of decadal survey and continuity missions These are active collaborations with NESDIS and others – SMAP Improved soil moisture fields Observations and modeling – GPM Some features like AMSR-E Rain rate and snow estimates QPE – LANDSAT Data Continuity Mission Support tornado track products Support other land use products LANDSAT Data Continuity Global Precipitation transitioning unique NASA data and research technologies to operations