NESDIS COPC UpdateSpring 2009

May 13, 2009

Kathleen A KellyActing Director, OSDPD

NOAA/NESDIS

Overview

GOES/POES Satellite Status

New Products Transitioned to Operations

Transferred to COPC partners

Critical Infrastructure Protection Status

NDE Status

Backup Slides

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GOES Operations StatusApril 2009

NESDIS Reorganization

Satellite Status

Critical Infrastructure Protection Status

GOES/POES Consolidation

New Products

GOES Operations StatusApril 2009

• GOES-12 Operational East– Occasional thruster anomalies, minimal impact to operations.– Imager decontamination performed during Dec/Jan thruster

anomaly.– On-board fuel remaining to support operations until Summer

2010.

GOES-11 Operational West– Battery performance improved following change in charge

management process.– Engineers report better than expected battery recovery, no

services shed from GOES-11 during Spring 09 eclipse.

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GOES Operations StatusApril 2009

• GOES-10 Provides South America Imaging Support– Sounder filter wheel stalled on 2/8/09. Sounder no

longer operating.– GOES-10 will be decommissioned November 2009.

• End of fuel life.

• GOES-13 in Storage Mode as operational spare.• GOES-O launch

– No earlier than late June 09.– Operational XRS data will be provided by GOES-O

following the decommissioning of GOES-10.

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POES Operations StatusApril 2009

• Operational Constellation Updates – GOES and POES

• Additional satellite activities

• New Products Transitioned

• Satellite Products in AWIPS Update

• ESPC Updates

• CIP Update

• User Services – Help Desk Update

Sun

Current POES Constellation Orbital Configuration

NOAA-15

NOAA-16

NOAA-18

METOP-A

NOAA-17

Constellation as of 02 April 2009

16:50 (drift -1.0 min/month)

Mean Local Times at the Ascending Node (hh:mm)

17:33 (drift +4.8 min/month)

21:33 (drift -2.4 min/month)

13:42 (drift 0.7 min/month)

21:31 (drift -0.1 min/month)

12:00Noon

00:00

18:0006:00

NOAA-19

13:57 (drift -1.6 min/month)

POES Constellation Operations Status

• NOAA-18 Operational PM– High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) noise continues,

Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (ATOVS) operating in a “No-HIRS” mode.

• Meteorological Operational Satellite(MetOp)-2 Operational AM– Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) channel 7 noise

continues to exceed specs.• Operational ATOVS adjusted to use other channels(1/28/09).

– European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) extending High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) coverage to Eastern US for Hurricane season (May 9 th)

– Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) vector files produced operationally and sent to Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) (10/22/08).

• NOAA-17 AM Backup– AMSU-A1

• Power off. Only heater remain powered on.

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POES Constellation Operations Status

• NOAA-16 PM Secondary– AMSU A1 Channel 4 unusable

• out of spec performance (confirmed on 4 March 2008).

– HIRS downgraded to YELLOW status because of long wave channel degradation.

• Longwave channels are currently out of noise-equivalent change in radiance (NEDN) noise specification by a large amount.

• NOAA-15 AM Secondary– AMSU-A

• Total failure of channel 11• Stopped sending data for channel 14

– HIRS• Channels 14, 16 and 17 out if spec• Filter wheel issues

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POES Constellation Operations Status

• Jason-2 – ESPC routinely produces Jason-2 Operational Geophysical Data

Records (OGDRs) and the OGDR’s available publicly through Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) as of Jan 15, 2009.

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NOAA-19 Status

– NOAA-19 Satellite launched February 6, 2009– Launched into afternoon orbit– No major problems– NOAA-19 Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES)

Constellation meeting held on April 16– NOAA will declare NOAA-19 operational on June 2, 2009

– Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) entered “Spin state” followed by “Fault Mode” on 24 April• Recovered the same day

– AMSU-A Sudden Jump correction implemented May 5, 2009 – Attitude error observed in Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

(AVHRR) and source is being investigated• Correction developed and under test

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NOAA-19 Status

Ascending image with no correction

Ascending image with correction applied

West side of track East side of track

•Observed attitude error under investigation by the On-Orbit Verification (OV) team •Geolocation offsets significantly reduced using correction scheme

Phase

Transition (Currently) Interim Operational

Period L+45 to April (L+~90) May – Nov 2009  Dec 2009 and beyond

S/C

NOAA-18 ≥ METOP-A

NOAA-19 ≥ METOP-A

NOAA-19 ≥ METOP-A

JASON-2 JASON-2 JASON-2

NOAA-19 NOAA-18 NOAA-15

NOAA-15 NOAA-17* NOAA-17

NOAA-17 NOAA-15* NOAA-18

NOAA-16 NOAA-16 NOAA-16

Spacecraft Priorities

*Once NWS NCEP EMC begins processing ozone data operationally from N18 the priorities for N17 and N15 will be switched.  This is scheduled to happen in Sep 2009.

Product Processing Backup System (CIP) Milestones

Application testing at NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) 1/12/09 - 2/6/09 – Complete

Ship equipment to Offsite Backup Facility (OBF)2/9/09 -- Complete

Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Phase 1 and 1.5 activation3/23/09 -- Complete

CIP Phase 2 system infrastructure testing at OBF 3/30/09- 4/2/09 -- Complete Test readiness review 4/3/09 -- Complete– Application testing at OBF 4/6/09 – 5/26/09 – In Progress– User testing 6/3/09 – 6/16/09– Operational readiness review 7/8/09– Commissioning review 8/6/09

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CIP Capabilities

– POES • NOAA satellite data processing and products.• MetOp data processing and products.• Level 1b processing.

– GOES East and West Advance Front End Processor (AFEP) processing (subset).– Data Acquisition Processing and Exchange (DAPE) (Shared Processing Program)

Gateway capabilities.– LOW-RATE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION (LRIT) (without Emergency Managers

Weather Information Network and Data Collection System).– Remote monitoring.– Remote administration

• Through phone line to restore network connectivity.• Via virtual private network (VPN) for system connectivity.

– Remote and local activation/deactivation.– Local monitoring moved to the “Quiet Room” in the Wallops Facility.– Ability to synchronize individual files or groups of files between NSOF and OBF at

any time, in any capacity.– Operations procedures in place.– GOES products- GOES Ingest and NOAAPORT Interface (GINI) (produces imagery

for AWIPS) is in place and ready.

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New Products Transitioned To Operations

Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) v4.0 products :

– The new products from NOAA-18 and MetOp include: Rain Rate (RR).

– The new products from Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) include: Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), Sea Ice Concentration (SIC), Snow Cover Extent (SCE), vertically-integrated non-precipitating Cloud Liquid Water (CLW) over open ocean.

– With the MIRS v4.0 implementation, the gridded MIRS surface and precipitation products are also available to users in HDF-EOS format.

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New Products Transitioned To Operations

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Blended Total Precipitable Water (TPW) Products•The blended TPW products system merges the operational available TPW products from multi-sensors, including Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP) F-13 SSM/I , NOAA-15, 16, 17,18 and MetOp-A AMSU-A over ocean, and Global Positioning System (GPS) and GOES Sounder over land areas in the Western Hemisphere, to provide a unified TPW and TPW anomaly product every hour - http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW/•Provided in HDF-EOS, Man computer Interactive Data Access System and

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS).

New Products Transitioned to Operations

MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) chlorophyll products

Chlorophyll concentration Chlorophyll anomaly (new algal growth)

Chesapeake Bay regional chlorophyll products

Daily Chlorophyll Calendar monthly Chlorophyll

New Products Transitioned To Operations

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GOES Surface and Insolation Product full disk (GSIP-fd) Product:

• High spatial resolution solar radiation product.• Used in models for coral bleaching and the hydrological cycle predictions.•Improvements:

• Increases spatial resolution to 1/8 x 1/8 degrees. • Expands spatial coverage of oceanic regions. • Evaluates insolation over both ocean and land.• Implements semi-automatic quality control of inputs, periodic calibration updates and quality-check of insolation output. • Provide data needed for validation and forcing of NWP surface physics.

New Products Transition To Operations

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Multifunctional Transport Satellites(MTSAT)-1R Winds:- MTSAT-1R Winds product covers the Western Pacific and extends beyond coverage offered by operational GOES-W Winds product. - Provided in BUFR, McIDAS MD and TEXT format.

Near real-time MODIS Processing System

• The porting of the near real-time Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) science algorithms from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to the NSOF Linux cluster was completed per the March 31, 2009 milestone.

• MODIS is now being processed completely out of ESPC at NSOF.

• Improved reliability of MODIS data processing system.

• Distribution server at GSFC has been upgraded for delivery of products from NSOF for GSFC and DoD customers.

• The distribution testing of MODIS products from ESPC via the DAPE Gateway (formerly Shared Processing Gateway) completed.

• All AQUA and TERRA MODIS data are now being delivered to AFWA via the DAPE Gateway.

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New Product Delivered Via DAPE Gateway

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New Products AFWA FNMOC NAVOCEANO

Pre-Operational NOAA-19 AMSU-A

X

Pre-Operational NOAA-19 HIRS Level 1B

X

Pre-Operational NOAA-19 MSPPS Level-2

X

Pre-Operational NOAA-19 ATOVS Level 2

SBUV Ozone Profiles X

Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) Aura Profiles X

ASCAT X X

COSMIC X

Jason-2 OGDR, IGDR X

MODIS AQUA and TERRA Data X

Note: Delivery of NOAA-19 AMSU-A 1Bs to AFWA will start soon.

NPOESS Data Exploitation (NDE) Status and Accomplishments

• Product Development– On schedule.– Development of legacy replacement products supporting mission

continuity.– Successful Preliminary Design Review for Binary Universal Form

for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) Toolkit • Re-format priority data for Numerical Weather Prediction

(NWP) community.• Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA),

Integrated Program Office (IPO) participation.• Critical Design Review (CDR) in September, 2009.

• System Development– On schedule.– Completed Data Ingest Subsystem Build.– Initiated Product Generation Subsystem Build.

• Delivered prototype Hierarchical Data Format(HDF)-5 to network Common Data Form(netCDF)-4 translator.

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NDE Status and Accomplishments

• System Development– Successful test flow of 2 orbit proxy data from Svalbard to

Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS) to NPOESS Data Exploitation (NDE) Storage Area Network.

– Tested command, control, & communications segment (C3S) to NESDIS central interface.

• Systems Integration– Participated in JAG/ODAA effort to develop end-to-end NPP data

assimilation test plan and standard NPP proxy data sets (Refer to ODAA update for details).

– Verified NPP data flow requirements to primary users. – Hosted Telecon with AFWA to convey lessons learned to

accelerate AFWA’s NPP data exploitation effort.– Completed key Interface Control Documents.

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NDE Concerns

• No Offsite backup for National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) era– Will coordinate w/ NESDIS OSDPD, OSD, and OCIO on CIP

plan.– Requesting funds to implement NDE CIP starting in FY12. – Resume discussion with DoD Centrals.

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Back Up Slides

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Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)

Performance Status May 4, 2009

KeyOperational

Operational with limitations

Non-operational

Not Applicable

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Y

N/A

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)

Performance StatusMay 4, 2009

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Performance Status

May 4, 2009

Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) Performance Status

05 May 2009

OperationalSpacecraft Issue but no user impacts S/C

Operational with limitations YNon-Operational R

Not Applicable N/A

Spacecraft Subsystems METOP-A NOAA 19 NOAA 18 NOAA 17 NOAA 16 NOAA 15Launch Date Oct 2006 Feb 2009 May 2005 Jun 2002 Sep 2000 May 1998Operational Date May 2007 pending Aug 2005 Oct 2002 Mar 2001 Dec 1998Mission Data Category Primary (AM) Secondary (PM) Primary (PM) Secondary (AM) Secondary (PM) Secondary (AM)

Adv. Hi Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Y YHigh Resolution Infrared Sounder (HIRS) R (3) Y YAdv Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A1) R (4) Y YAdv Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A2)Adv Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-B) N/A N/A N/A YMicrowave Humidity Sounder (MHS) N/A N/A N/ASpace Environment Monitor (SEM)Solar Backscatter UV Radiometer (SBUV) N/A Y N/A

Telemetry, Command and ControlAttitude Determination and Control YElectrical PowerThermal Control YCommunications Y - HRPT (Full Resolution Direct Readout) Y (1) - APT/LRPT (Low Resolution Direct Readout) R (2) R - Data Collection Subsytem (DCS) /Advanced-DCS - Search and Rescue Repeater (SARR) Y Y - Search and Rescue Processor (SARP) - Data Handling (Recorders) Y

Payload Instruments

Spacecraft Subsystems

POES Constellation Performance Status Details05 May 2009

FAILURE WITHIN

LIFETIME

FAILURE BEYOND

LIFETIMEACTION TAKEN IMPACTS

1High Resolution Picture Transmitter (HRPT) - transmitter failed

As of Sep08 Regional service over Europe& N. Atlantic

Very limited coverage of CONUSNo user impact meeting direct readout requirements via NOAA-17

2 Low Resolution Picture Transmission (LRPT). Switched off due to interference with HIRS

Switched to NOAA-17 HRPT similar orbits

No user impact meeting direct readout requirements via NOAA-17

FAILURE WITHIN

LIFETIME

FAILURE BEYOND

LIFETIMEACTION TAKEN IMPACTS

3High Resolution Infrared Sounder (HIRS) long wave channel noise

science data unusable. Greater reliance on morning orbit HIRS

Worsening quality of IR channels as seen shortly after launch. Some users discontinued usage.

FAILURE WITHIN

LIFETIME

FAILURE BEYOND

LIFETIMEACTION TAKEN IMPACTS

4 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A1 scan motor failed

No User impacts, NOAA-15 used to mitigate

NOAA-17

NOAA-18

METOP-A

Polar Satellite Products and Services Status

G Y R- Operational - Scheduling, performance or capabilities limitation

- Not operational Or unable to process

Product Areas Key Products N-15 N-16 N-17 N-18 M2/A N-19AVHRR 1B/Radiances G G G G G GAMSU-A 1B/Radiances Y Y R G G GAMSU-B 1B//Radiances Y G GHIRS 1B/Radiances Y Y G Y G GMHS 1B/Radiances G G GSBUV 1B G G Y GSAR Telemetry G G G G G GDCS G G G G G GSEM G G G G G GASCAT GGOME GGRAS (NRT & Level 0) GIASI 1C GIASI L2 G

F-13 F-14 F-15 F-16 F-17SSM/I G R GSSMIS Y G

Pre-Products

NOAA Pre Products

EUMETSAT Unique Products (NRT & AFEP)

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GOES/POES Consolidation

Decommissioning of World Weather Building Servers- ESPC staff initiated the decommissioning of more than 120

legacy servers residing in WWB - Due to delay in move to College Park, space and power are

needed by NWS to install and test new equipment destined for new building

- Decommissioning of servers due to be completed in June 2009- GOES-E, GOES-W, MSG, MTSAT distribution servers will

remain in WWB (and later built out at new facility in College Park) to service NWS and NESDIS users

DAPE Gateway Update

– The DAPE Gateway upgrade is schedule to be completed early June.

– New Gateway will provide more horsepower for transfers.

– Current Gateway has 4 GB of memory & 270 GB of disk storage.

– New Gateway has 8 GB of memory & 700 GB of disk storage.

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