1. PDA Product Distribution & Acquisition by NOAA Presented to CGMS-44 WGIV, agenda item 4

2. Satellite Information Flow
SNPP/JPSS-1 (PM)
POES NOAA-19
Center for Satellite Applications
and Research (STAR)
GOES-West
GOES-East
Non-NOAA
(Jason2, DMSP, Meteosat, MTSAT,
Metop, EOS, COSMIC, others)
Product Development
Algorithm Development
Science Maintenance
Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO)
METOP-B/C (AM)
TDRSS
Fairbanks
Wallops
Svalbard
McMurdo / Troll
Command and Control
Processing and Distribution
Satellite Operations Control Center
Environmental Satellite Processing Center
Suitland
Data and
Products
Customers
Office of Satellite Ground Systems (OSGS)
Ground Systems Development and Sustainment,
IT Enterprise Architecture
Archive and Access
NESDIS Data Centers

3. Current Processing & Distribution
Polar products – DDS & NDE 1.0
GOES products – GEODIST
McIDAS formatted products
Highly manual data access process
Paper data access requests
Subscriptions all manually managed by OSPO

4. New Processing & Distribution 1/2
All near real time distribution except McIDAS will be done from PDA
McIDAS will remain on GEODIST
GOES-R products (AWIPS2/SBN, GRB and PDA)
JPSS products
Other products from currently supported missions
Highly automated, user driven process
User managed search and tailoring
OSPO to manage and update international user subscriptions, same as current DDS

5. New Processing & Distribution 2/2
Significant changes to contingency operations
There is no GOES-R distribution from the backup PDA (only AWIPS2 and GRB services (KPPs) provided in the event of a backup scenario)
The JPSS contingency operations will be limited to a single set of primary sensors
Legacy systems will continue to COOP from CIP
Data volumes will be much higher
Operation Readiness Review scheduled for 25 July 2016
PDA will be operationally ready to accept data from GOES-R ground system
System Acceptance Review scheduled for late 2016 / early 2017
PDA will be operationally ready to perform all functions and OSPO will be programmatically ready to take ownership of the system
Transition period coupled to support for GOES-R ops
Currently, GOES-R data is expected to be the first products available on PDA

6. PDA Product Delivery Schedule
GOES-R – L+6 months for all instruments
JPSS-1 – L+90 days for KPPs
VIIRS over Alaska, ATMS, CrIS
Other sensor products later
GOES-NOP/POES/Other Legacy Products
Planning to start transition early CY2017
Transition could run 6 months

7. Big Data Network Communication Challenges
Bandwidth vs. time to transfer
Example: If you want to receive 20 GB of data in less than 5 minutes, a bandwidth speed of at least 500 Mbps of end to end network capacity is needed
NOTE: The slowest speed in the network path determines the overall data transfer speed.
GB - Gigabyte
Gbps – Gigabit per second (1 Gigabit = 109 bits)

8. Data Access & Distribution Policy Contact: NESDIS.data.access@noaa.gov
Full policy and data access forms at
Security requirement to document and control all users accessing operational data servers
Significant increases in data volumes necessitate prioritization of users to effectively manage data distribution resources to ensure effective system performance
Higher priority access will be given to organizations with:
Mission and statutory authority that supports the requirement for real-time data access
Signed NESDIS cooperative agreements or other legislative authorities
A demonstrated timeliness requirement for near-real time satellite data and products to support operational user applications.
For non real-time data users, NOAA/NESDIS will offer alternate sources of data access that are internal and external to NESDIS

9. Contact Information & Social Media
Contact Info
Donna McNamara,
Chris Sisko,
Don Slater,
24/7 Help Desk
User Services
Data Access
Webmaster
Web