NESDIS COPC Update Spring 2008

1. NESDIS COPC Update Spring 2008 Kathy Kelly Acting Director, OSDPD

2. Overview NESDIS Reorganization Satellite Status Critical Infrastructure Protection Status GOES/POES Consolidation New Products

3. NESDIS Re-Organization Background • NESDIS is undergoing a reorganization to better align competencies and functions (e.g., acquisition, operations, archive, research) • Part of NESDIS’s reorganization is to examine the Satellite Services Program* comprised of OSDPD, OSO and STAR Guiding Principles • Assume the overall NESDIS mission remains unchanged • Take a customer-centric approach to the reorganization • Clearly align responsibility/accountability with organizational functions • Reorganize along Operations and Research functions • Improve accountability • Single chain for delivering operational products and services * While the Satellite Services Program captures the majority of the functions of OSDPD, OSO and STAR there are some activities in other NOAA programs (e.g., Marine Transportation Systems and Emergency Response Program)

4. NESDIS Re-Organization (cont 2) • Maximize integration and efficiency • Structure organization to increase efficiency to meet new requirements and improve management structure • Be organizationally prepared for new satellite systems Benefits of New Organization • One Director held accountable for end-to-end data acquisition and delivery of products • Streamlines Satellite Services Program • Allows for flexibility in resource allocation • Allows NESDIS to better plan for, and meet future requirements for new space and ground segments • Consolidated administrative services

5. NEISDIS Re-Organization (cont 3) • Consolidated 24x7 operations and support to the operation • More efficient management structure • Preserves and strengthens total operations team • Provides environment to enhance end to end system knowledge Goal: To create a comprehensive operations and research organization

6. Special Projects Manager Administrative Officer(s) Assistant Director (NOAA Corps) Director Corporate Services Manager Deputy Director National Ice Center (Navy, NOAA, USCG) Satellite Products and Services Division* Satellite and Products Operations Division* Wallops Island CDA Fairbanks CDA Operations Systems Support Satellite Products Engineering Engineering Real time ops Support Direct Services Satellite Analysis NESDIS Re-Organization (cont 4) Software Systems * Would be supported by a Deputy Division Chief

7. NESIDIS Re-Organization (cont 5) Operations Functional Overview • Includes support for STAR component of Satellite Services Program • Function performed by STAR on behalf of NESDIS • Some User Services functions will be co-located with Research organization and with customers to improve research to operations transition and delivery of services

8. Key Operational Spacecraft issues but no user impacts Operational with limitations Non-operational Not Applicable G S/C Y R N/A Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Operations Status May 5, 2008 8

9. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Operations StatusMay 5, 2008 9

10. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Operations StatusMay 5, 2008 Operational with limitations Non-operational Operational Spacecraft issues but no user impacts 10

11. POES Constellation Operations Status5 May 2008 11

12. Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) Operations Status05 May 2008 12

13. Overview Provide backup capability at Wallops for all Priority 1 & 2 “critical products” in the event ESPC at NSOF becomes non-operational Priority 1 Products within 24 hours Priority 2 Products within 48 Hours ESPC/CIP is a phased implementation Phase 1 – CEMSCS Phase 1.5 Includes Metop, BGAC (N-18), MODIS (lite), QuickSCAT and more… Phase 2 – SATEPS Critical Infrastructure Protection

14. Status Phase 1 Acceptance Testing Complete Products Generated and Validated POES Products - Level 1B & 131 priority 1 & 2 products Subset of GOES Products Validated Some products suboptimal because of missing Metop data Infrastructure Testing (Network, Systems, AFEPS etc.) Phase 1 Operational Exercises Ongoing Personnel Mobilized Operations, Systems Admin Systems Activated (step by step procedure) Produced and Validated Products Operational Procedures Exercised Did not test External Users such as NCEP Operational Failover from NSOF to OBF Critical Infrastructure Protection (cont 2)

15. Milestones Operational Readiness Review May 28, 2008 EPSC Phase 1 (Polar processing) Operational June 1, 2008 Commissioning Review June 18, 2008 Phase 1.5 (Metop) Operational Aug 2008 Commissioning review Sept 2008 ESPC Phase II (GOES processing) Operational Dec 2008 Commissioning review Jan 2009 Critical Infrastructure Protection (cont 3)

16. Current Capabilities POES Partial Products Level 1B processing GOES East and West processing (subset) LRIT Remote Monitoring Remote Administration through phone line to restore network connectivity Remote Activation Ability to synchronize individual files or groups of files btwn NSOF and OBF at any time, orbit by orbit, day by day, or whenever Operations Procedures In Place GOES Products- GINI (Produces imagery for AWIPS) in place and ready Critical Infrastructure Protection (cont 4)

17. All operational processing from the Satellite Environmental Processing System (SATEPS) computers located in the World Weather Building (WWB), in Camp Springs, MD has been transferred to the Environmental Satellite Processing Center (ESPC) located in the new NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) building in Suitland, Md. This is the final phase in the consolidation of the GOES and Polar processing into one computer processing center (ESPC) providing a truly integrated processing environment which will ultimately result in cost savings. The new systems in NSOF are now operational and user access has been switched to the new machines. Any remaining hardware at the WWB will be decommissioned and surplused. GOES/POES Consolidation

18. Products • Total Ozone Analysis from SBUV and TOVS (TOAST) • Global Coverage • Combines both: • ATOVS upper tropospheric/lower stratospheric ozone • SBUV mid-to-upper stratospheric ozone to make a daily total ozone map with full global coverage. Full Global daily total ozone map

19. Products (cont 2) • Advanced Dvorak Technique Tool • An automated tropical storm classification tool • Provides real-time information on storm intensity and center location to augment the classifications currently performed Real-timeinformation on storm intensity and center

20. Products (cont 3) • Fire Identification, Mapping and Monitoring Algorithm (FIMMA) • Created from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) data • Input into the Hazard Mapping System fire product • Available whenever the 3.7 micron channel is turned on (channel 3B) over North America Automated fire detections from 1 km. resolution AVHRR data

21. Products (cont 4) • MIRS Phase-II (MIRS v2.0) products • Both the temperature and moisture profiles and total precipitable water (TPW) are extended over non-coastal land • The TPW is made available in McIDAS format for satellite analysts and NWS forecasters

22. Products (cont 5) • Tropical Cyclone Formation • Parameters - Central Pacific and Western Pacific Sector • GOES-East, GOES-West, MTSAT Probability of Storm Genesis

23. Products (cont 6) • POES/GOES Blended SST • NOAA-18 • MetOp-A • GOES-E and W

24. Products (cont 7) • GOES–W Aerosol and Smoke Product “GASP” Input for NWS smoke forecasts

25. Products (cont 8) GDS Pipeline Processing OPERATIONAL, January 29, 2008

26. Heritage NESDIS SST product ACSPO SST product • Native pixel resolution 8 km • 6.6×104 SST pixels • 8.3% ocean covered at 1day×0.3o resolution • Native pixel resolution 4 km • 2.1×106 SST pixels • 32.7% ocean covered at 1day×0.3o resolution Full integration of global clear sky radiances over oceans with NCEP Global Forecast System fields Products (cont 9) AVHRR Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans “ACSPO”