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NOAA NPOESS PREPARATION ACTIVITIES. Gene Legg Office of Satellite Data Processing And Distribution Asia Pacific Satellite Data Exchange and Utilization Meeting Honolulu, HI, September 20-22, 2006. NPOESS Data Exploitation. Tasks: Coordinate NPOESS data utilization activities across NOAA
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NOAA NPOESS PREPARATION ACTIVITIES Gene Legg Office of Satellite Data Processing And Distribution Asia Pacific Satellite Data Exchange and Utilization Meeting Honolulu, HI, September 20-22, 2006
NPOESS Data Exploitation Tasks: • Coordinate NPOESS data utilization activities across NOAA • Disseminate NPOESS Data Records (xDRs) • Provide NPOESS xDR format conversion software • Generate and disseminate repackaged xDRs (versions of the xDRs in alternative formats and views) • Generate and disseminate NOAA-unique products (augmented environmental products constructed from NPOESS xDRs) • Deliver NOAA-unique products to NOAA Long Term Archive (CLASS) • Provide services to customers, including a Help Desk, NDE product training, support for product enhancement requests http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/nde/
Examples ofNPP/NPOESS NOAA Unique Products • Compressed radiance data from CriS/ATMS (Spatial, Spectral and EOF data reductions) • Sounder products for National Weather Service WFOs • Radiation budget parameters (e.g. OLR) from CrIS • Blended Snow Products from VIIRS, ATMS and CMIS and GOES • Blended Ozone products from CrIS and OMPS • Vegetation – deliver 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 of Ocean Color, Coral Bleaching and SST • Blended Ocean Products – Color and Altimeter, and/or Winds • Microwave-only products from ATMS (temperature, moisture, cloud liquid water, precipitation, rainfall rates, surface emissivity, snow/ice) • Daily global, regional maps (gridded data) of all EDRs and SDRs for the science community and for validation
NOAA Satellite Operations Facility(NSOF) • Located at the Suitland Federal Center, Maryland • Houses Mission Management Center, IDPS, Cal/Val Processing System and the Environmental Satellite Processing Center (NOAA Central) • “Substantially Complete” as of February 2006 • Operational Occupancy, late 2006
Nunn-McCurdy Process, Schedule and Status • USAF delivered a 25% Nunn-McCurdy breach notice to Congress on 12 Jan 2006 • Nunn-McCurdy recertification follows a standard process • Modified to accommodate Tri-Agency Involvement • Completed by June 5, 2006 • IPTs provided answers to 4 key questions: • National Security Importance • Alternative Options Viability • Cost Adequacy • Management Structure Adequacy
Nunn-McCurdy Process, Schedule and Status • NPOESS mission scaled back to 2 S/C in orbit. Operational reliance on METOP to fill 3rd orbital slot. • OMPS Limb Sounder may be Ballast-only • CMIS is “de-manifested” • New microwave imager/sounder under development • Will fly on 2nd NPOESS (C2) • NGST/Raytheon Contract restructure underway • IPO reorganized • New Launch Schedule • NPP – Sept 30, 2009 • NPOESS (C1) – Late 2013 • NPOESS (C2) – Late 2015 • C3 and C4 Development and Launch will be evaluated after NPP launch
NPOESS Preparatory Project: 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 and Profile Suite (IPO) • Provides lessons learned and allows time for any required modifications before NPOESS first launch • Ground System Risk Reduction • Early delivery and 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/Aura missions
Payload Update - VIIRS • EDU completed TVAC successfully; August 31, 2006 • I&T Post-TVAC ongoing; Completion Oct 19, 2006 • FU1 Electronics Module successfully completed TVAC in July 2006 • Band-to-Band Registration (BBR) achieves EDR objectives for NPP
Payload Update: CrIS, OMPS, ATMS • CrIS: • Flight Unit in NPP Delivery Acceptance Testing • EMI testing issues in work-off • Integration on NPP (mechanical, electrical) to be completed in early 2007 • OMPS: • OMPS (Nadir) Vibration Testing complete, now in TVAC • Nadir Boresight shift observed during TVAC • ATMS: • Gunn-Diode Replacement task ongoing • IF Amplifier Phase 2 Manufacturing Readiness Review – Jan 31, 2007 • PFM Scheduled to Ship in early October for S/C Integration and Test