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A Tri-agency Effort to Leverage and Combine Environmental Satellite Activities

NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Satellite Direct Readout Conference for the Americas John D. Cunningham System Program Director Integrated Program Office 11 December 2002. METOP. NPOESS. NPOESS. Specialized Satellites. NPOESS.

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A Tri-agency Effort to Leverage and Combine Environmental Satellite Activities

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  1. NPOESSNational Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite SystemSatellite Direct Readout Conference for the AmericasJohn D. CunninghamSystem Program DirectorIntegrated Program Office11 December 2002

  2. METOP NPOESS NPOESS Specialized Satellites NPOESS A Tri-agency Effort to Leverage and Combine Environmental Satellite Activities Mission Provide a national, operational, polar-orbiting remote-sensing capability Achieve National Performance Review (NPR) savings by converging DoD and NOAA satellite programs Incorporate new technologies from NASA Encourage International Cooperation 0530 1330 0930 Local Equatorial Crossing Time Saves $1.6B through System Life Cycle compared to NPR target of $1.3B NPOESS is Good Government!

  3. NPOESS NPOESS is required to provide an OPERATIONAL remote sensing capability to acquire and receive in real-time at field terminals, and to acquire, store and disseminate to processing centers, GLOBAL and regional environmental imagery and specialized METEOROLOGICAL, CLIMATIC, TERRESTRIAL, OCEANOGRAPHIC and SOLAR-GEOPHYSICAL and other data in support of CIVILIAN and NATIONALSECURITY missions

  4. National Importance • Military Community • Shift tactical and strategic focus from “coping with weather” to anticipating and exploiting atmospheric and space environmental conditions • Civilian Community • Timely, accurate, and cost-effective public warnings and forecasts of severe weather events, reduce the potential loss of human life and property and advance the national economy • Support of general aviation, agriculture, and maritime communities aimed at increasing U.S. productivity • Commitment to support long-term data continuity for environmental monitoring and Global Change assessment NPOESS Goal: Improve the Nation’s Space-Based, Remote Sensing Capabilities for Environmental Monitoring

  5. Establishing NPOESS • National Space Council Study - 1992 • National Performance Review (NPR) - September 1993 • Identified Need for Coordinated Effort • OSTP Convergence Implementation Plan submitted to Congress - May 1994 • Presidential Decision Directive/NSTC-2 - May 1994 • Directed Convergence of National Assets • Tri-agency Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) - May 1995 • Established Roles and Responsibilities of Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, and NASA • EUMETSAT/NOAA Initial Joint Polar Agreement - November 1998 • Brought in International Community

  6. Two Polar-orbiting Systems DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) • Currently • F-14 Launched December 1994 • F-15 Launched December 1999 • F-16 Planned for May 2003 POES (Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite) • First Launched April 1, 1960 • Currently • NOAA-15 Launched May 1998 • NOAA-16 Launched Sep 2000 • NOAA-17 Launched Jun 2002

  7. NPOESS DMSP/POES to NPOESS Convergence & Evolution of Mission Areas DoD/AF DoD/AF DMSP Block 6 Military Tri-Agency -Imaging - μwaveSounding -Space Environment -Under DMSP SPO CONVERGENCE DOC/NOAA DOC/NOAA • Imaging • Sounding • Climate • Ozone • Space Environment • Under Integrated • Program Office POES OPQR Civil -Imaging -Sounding -Climate -Ozone -Space Environment -Under POES Prog Office Discontinued

  8. F17 F19 WindSat/Coriolis F15 F16 N 16 C2 N’ Satellite Transition Schedule(DMSP 2yr launch centers, NPOESS GAP 6c NLF input)Slopes indicate 10-90% need CY 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ----------------10 Year Mission Life------------------- 0530 F20 C3 C6 NPOESS DMSP C4 F18 C1 NPOESS DMSP NPOESS 0730 - 1030 17 POES METOP EOS-Terra Local Equatorial Crossing Time NPP C5 NPOESS POES 1330 Earliest Need to back-up launch EOS-Aqua Mission Satisfaction S/C Deliveries Earliest Availability FY 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 S/C delivery interval driven by 15 month IAT schedule As of: 20 Oct 02 Most probable launch date Launch date based on backup need

  9. NPOESS Requirements Convergence of Alternatives • Integrated Operational Requirements Document (IORD-I) • 59 Data Products • 9 Enhancement Products • 1 System Characteristic KPP • Validated by JARC 1996 • IORD-II • 55 Data Products • 21 Enhancement Products • 2 System Characteristic KPPs • Validated by JARC Dec 2001 Convergence of Requirements Converged requirements provide foundation for combined program First success after eight previous attempts

  10. IORD Content Example Sea Surface Temperature (SST) • Sea Surface Temperature is defined as a highly precise measurement of the temperature of the surface layer (upper 1 meter) of ocean water. It has two major applications: 1) sea surface phenomenology, and 2) use in infrared cloud/no cloud decision for processed cloud data. The accompanying requirements apply only under clear conditions (unless specified otherwise).

  11. Atm Vert Moist Profile Precipitable Water Cloud Top Pressure Atm Vert Temp Profile Cloud Top Temperature Precipitation Type/Rate Imagery Down LW Radiance (Sfc) Pressure (Surface/Profile) Sea Surface Temperature Down SW Radiance (Sfc) Sea Ice Characterization Sea Surface Winds Electric Fields Sea SFC Height/TOPO Soil Moisture Electron Density Profile Snow Cover/Depth Energetic Ions Aerosol Optical Thickness Solar Irradiance Aerosol Particle Size Geomagnetic Field Supra-Therm-Aurora Prop Ice Surface Temperature Aerosol Refractive Index Surface Type Albedo (Surface) In-situ Plasma Fluctuation Surface Wind Stress Auroral Boundary In-situ Plasma Temp Suspended Matter Ionospheric Scintillation Auroral Energy Deposition Total Water Content Aeroral Imagery Med Energy Chgd Parts Vegatative Index Land Surface Temp Cloud Base Height Net Heat Flux Cloud Cover/Layers VIIRS GPSOS Net Solar Radiation (TOA) Cloud Effective Part Size CMIS ERBS Neutral Density Profile TSIS Cloud Ice Water Path CrIS/ATMS ALT OMPS Cloud Liquid Water Ocean Color/Chlorophyll SES APS Cloud Optical Thickness Ocean Wave Character LEGEND Cloud Particle Size/Distrib Outgoing LW Rad (TOA) - KPPs Cloud Top Height O3 – Total Column Profile Environmental Data Records By Sensor

  12. - KPPs Environmental Data Records By Discipline LEGEND

  13. NPOESS Program Vision The IPO and TRW/Raytheon team: Working in a spirit of shared ownership to develop and deploy the single, national, polar-orbiting environmental remote-sensing capability to meet next-generation civil and military needs Breaking the Mold! Thinking “Out of the Box” Working Together Creating Success The only thing they pay us for!

  14. NPOESS Instruments METOP NPP 0930 0530 0930 1330 1030 IPO Developed Visible/IR Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)* X X X X (AVHRR) X Cross-track IR Sounder (CrIS)* X X X (IASI/HIRS) X Conical MW Imager/Sounder (CMIS)* X X X Ozone Mapper/Profiler Suite (OMPS) X X (GOME) X GPS Occultation Sensor (GPSOS) X X (GRAS) Space Environmental Sensor Suite (SESS) X X (SEM) Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) X Leveraged Advanced Technology MW Sounder (ATMS)* X X X (AMSU/MHS) X ARGOS-Data Collection System (A-DCS) X X X Search and Rescue (SARSAT) X X X X Earth Radiation Budget Sensor (ERBS) X Total Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS) X Radar altimeter (ALT) X Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) X NPOESS Payloads * Critical instrument - Failure constitutes need to replace satellite

  15. TDRSS GPS Space Segment 1330 NPP Residual Satellites 1730 2130 ADCS Launch Support Segment SARSAT Field Terminal Segment CLASS Supplied by NOAA Supplied by NASA ADS SDS NAVO FNMOC AFWA NESDIS Data Handling Node Front End Processor Interface Data Processing Segment NPOESS Segment Architecture Svalbard Primary T&C NPP SMD WSCLEO&A Backup T&C 15 Globally Distributed Receptor Sites MMC at Schriever Alternate Operations Team MMC at Suitland Flight Operations Team C3 Segment

  16. Policy and Planning • NPOESS will deliver data to users world-wide in accordance with US national data policy • Data will be broadcast openly around the world at no cost to receivers • Capability for data encryption/data denial exists for national defense needs • Denial can be done on a world-wide or geographic basis • NPOESS calls the world-wide users “field terminals” (to differentiate from the Weather Centrals)

  17. Proteus SOLSE DIDM LORE Risk Reduction WindSat • Validate technological approach to remote sensing • Early delivery of NPOESS data to users • Sensor demonstrations on non-operational platforms • Lower risk to operational users • Lower risk of launch delays due to operational schedule • Share cost & risk among agencies NASA ER2 / NAST NPP

  18. NPOESS Airborne Sounder Testbed [NAST] NASA ER-2 OBJECTIVES Simulate Candidate Spaceborne Instruments • (CrIS, ATMS, IASI) • Evaluate Key EDR Algorithms • Preview High Resolution Products (Spectral & Spatial) • Under Flight Calibration/Validation INSTRUMENTS [NAST-I & NAST-M] NAST-I: IR Interferometer [FTS] Sounder • NAST-M: Microwave Sounder* • Co-Boresighted IR and Microwave • IR Interferometer [FTS] Sounder 3.5 – 16 µm • High Spectral Resolution (1000 < du / u < 2000) • High Sensitivity in a cold scene • 0.10 K NEDT @ 14.9 µm (250K) • 0.15 K NEDT @ 8.2 µm (250K) • 0.20 K NEDT @ 4.7 µm (250K) • Microwave Sounder [3 Bands, 16 Channels] 54, 118, 183 GHz 20 km ALTITUDE NADIR 2.6 km IFOV ± 23 km GROUND COVERAGE ± 48 o Scan *Hurricane Bonnie Cross-Section

  19. WindSat/CoriolisJoint NAVY/IPO/DoD Risk Reduction Demo Description:Validates concept of passive measurement of Ocean Surface Wind Speed and Direction, using Polarimetric Radiometer and other environmental parameters derived from microwave observations • Capability: • Planned launch in December 2002 on Titan II • Measure Ocean Surface Wind Direction (Non- Precipitating Conditions) • 25 km spatial resolution • Secondary Measurements • Sea Surface Temperature, Soil Moisture, Rain Rate, Ice, and Snow Characteristics, Water Vapor • Joint Development/Partnership • 1. STP [Space Test Program] Office - DOD/USAF • 2. MELV [Medium Expendable Launch Vehicle] • 3. USN [U.S. Navy] - CNO/N6, ONR, NRL • 4. NPOESS IPO [Integrated Program Office]

  20. NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP)Joint IPO/NASA Risk Reduction Demo • NPP Spacecraft contract awarded to Ball Aerospace – May 2002 • Instrument Risk Reduction • Early delivery / instrument-level test / system-level integration and test • VIIRS - Vis/IR Imager Radiometer Suite (IPO) • CrIS - Cross-track IR Sounder (IPO) • ATMS - Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (NASA) • OMPS – Ozone Mapping/Profiling Suite • Provides lessons learned and allows time for any required modifications before NPOESS first launch • Ground System Risk Reduction • Early delivery/test of a subset of NPOESS-like ground system elements • Early User Evaluation of NPOESS data products • Provides algorithms / instrument verification and opportunities for instrument calibration / validation prior to first NPOESS launch • Allows for algorithm modification prior to first NPOESS launch • Continuity of data for NASA’s EOS Terra/Aqua missions

  21. Real-Time Operational Demonstrations Coriolis (FY03) CMIS NPP (FY06) CrIS/ATMS & VIIRS METOP (FY06) IASI/AMSU/MHS & AVHRR NPOESS (FY09) CrIS/ATMS, VIIRS, CMIS, OMPS Aqua (FY02) AIRS/AMSU/HSB & MODIS Use of Advanced Sounder Data for Improved Weather Forecasting/Numerical Weather Prediction NOAA Real-Time Data Delivery Timeline Ground Station Scenario NWS/NCEP ECMWF UKMO FNMOC NWP Forecasts NOAA Real-time User IDPS C3S Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

  22. Calibration Validation Mission Success • Absolute Accuracy • Polarization Purity • Geolocation Accuracy • Instrument Stability • Doppler Correction • Antenna Pattern Correction • Ocean Wind Speed • Water Vapor • Cloud Water • Rain Rate • Sea Ice • Soil Moisture • Snow water • Land Temp • Lower Air Profiles • Upper Air Profiles Ensures • Meet Specification • Operational production of synoptic maps and profiles of critical atmospheric, oceanographic and land parameters • Quality Control Users • NWP • Real-time tactical • Non-tactical • JTWC • NHC • JIC • Others Calibration/Validation To tie it all together and make it work….

  23. IDPS ProductsEnvironmental Data Records Cloud Top Heights VIIRS – Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite Cloud Layers Total Precipitable Water Surface Temperature Environmental Properties Displayed at VIIRS Pixel Locations

  24. Environmental Observing Natural Hazards Detection and Mapping Ozone Monitoring Multi-spectral Hurricane Mapping and Profiling Sea Surface Temperature Ocean Circulation Snow and Ice Mapping and Monitoring All Weather Imaging Precipitation Measurement

  25. Protect Safety of Life and PropertyImprove Accuracy of Severe Weather Warnings Improved Microwave Imagery/Sounding products will improve prediction of wind speed and direction Increase in hurricane landfall forecast skill will save an estimated $1 million per mile of coastline that does not have to be evacuated Improved early warnings mitigate the devastating effects of floods through disaster planning and response

  26. Other Benefits to the Civilian Community NPOESS will improve ability to predict El Niño. A 60% increase in El Niño forecast skill will save $183 million per year over 12 year period Ice monitoring for shipping Snow cover mapping - spring flood prediction

  27. Weather permeates all aspects of military operations NPOESS data will provide situational awareness Situational Awareness is critical to Combat Planning Air Superiority Winning the War Accurate forecasts are critical to the protection of life, safety, and property NPOESS data will improve forecasts and warnings Improved forecasts will Reduce loss of life and property Benefit industry through increased productivity NPOESS will maintain long-term data continuity for climate monitoring and assessment NPOESS Benefits the Nation & World

  28. Integrated Program OfficePoints of Contact • Executive Staff - (301) 427-2070 • System Program Director: Mr. John Cunningham • Principal Deputy System Program Director: Col Frank Hinnant • Deputy System Program Director: Mr. Carl Hoffman • Executive Director: CAPT Dean Smehil, NOAA • Acquisition - (301) 427-2084 • Associate Director for Acquisition: Lt Col Pete Linnemann • Technology - (301) 427-2121 • Associate Director for Technology Transition: Mr. Stan Schneider • Chief Scientist : Dr. Stephen A. Mango • Operations - (301) 427-2088 Associate Director for Operations: Mr. Bruce Needham • NPOESS Websites • http://www.npoess.noaa.gov • http://npoesslib.ipo.noaa.gov/ (electronic bulletin board)

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