1. Ninghai Sun1, Lihang Zhou2, Mitch Goldberg3
Introduction to STAR Integrated Calibration/Validation System March 22, 2018
Ninghai Sun1, Lihang Zhou2, Mitch Goldberg3
1. ERT, College Park, Maryland
2. NOAA/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, Maryland
3. NOAA/JPSS, Greenbelt, Maryland
With contribution from STAR ICVS Team and STAR Instrument Calibration/Validation Teams

2. Outline Objective of ICVS System description Primary users
ICVS web site
Data processing diagram
Sample product demonstration
S-NPP reprocessing SDR status and access method
Path forward

3. Objectives
STAR Integrated Calibration/Validation System (ICVS) provides NOAA operational satellite spacecraft and onboard instruments near real time and long term health status/performance monitoring and data product quality trending
NOAA ICVS provides the following services
Monitors over 400 parameters for 31 instruments/spacecraft onboard NOAA/METOP/SNPP satellites
Monitors and trends the NOAA20/SNPP spacecraft parameters , supporting NASA flight team
Monitors the instrument performance through trending the instrument house-keeping and telemetry parameters including ATMS, CrIS, VIIRS, OMPS, AMSU-A, MHS, AVHRR, and HIRS
Detects the anomaly events and automatically sends the warning messages to NOAA satellite operators, NASA instrument scientists, and senior program managers
Characterizes the SDR sounding data quality with respect to the numerical weather prediction model (NWP) simulations
Provides NWP users and remote sensing communities on the instrument noises for their real- time applications (e.g. error covariance in data assimilation)
6160 all instrument status and data quality trending figures generated in near real time

4. ICVS System Structure

5. ICVS Primary Users
NOAA STAR ICVS are now providing more parameters for applications by broader communities including NWP. It is a very powerful tool and should be set up as a gold standard for all the space agencies to follow in satellite instrument monitoring and trending Stephen English (ECMWF DA Head)

6. ICVS Web Site

7. ICVS Web Site

8. ICVS Processing Diagram

9. ICVS System Input Data Spacecraft ATMS CrIS VIIRS OMPS AMSU-A MHS
Spacecraft Telemetry RDR
Spacecraft Diary RDR
ATMS
Science RDR
Telemetry RDR
Dwell RDR
Diagnostic RDR
TDR/SDR/GEO
CrIS
SDR/GEO
SDR (FSR)
VIIRS
OBC IP
AutoCal LUT
IMG EDR
OMPS
Science RDR
Telemetry RDR
SDR/GEO
Dark LUT
NASA PEATE SDR/Rawflux
AMSU-A
Level 1B
MHS
AVHRR
Level 1B GAC
HIRS

10. ICVS System Output Products
Spacecraft and instrument health status
Trending time series figures directly from data
Data output for users’ advanced analysis
Instrument channel/band performance
Trending time series figures from calculation
SDR maps
Global maps from SDR/GEO or EDR products
SDR data quality
Global distribution maps
Time series figures
SDR bias characterization
Global bias maps
Daily global bias time series figures
Warning message
Depends on pre-set criteria
Intermediate data
Match to each original granules in binary format for faster reprocessing
Statistical data
Contains orbital/hourly statistical analysis result for long term trending figures

11. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

12. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

13. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

14. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

15. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

16. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

17. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

18. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

19. ICVS Sample Product Demonstration

20. ICVS System Software Revision Control

21. Suomi NPP Reprocessing SDR Status
Sensor
Data Name
Period
Data Volume
(/year)
SW Version
ATMS
TDR/SDR/GEO
to (completed)
450 GB
ADL 4.2_MX811
CrIS
SDR/GEO
to (completed)
16 TB
ADL 5.3.1
FSR SDR
to (completed)
28.5 TB
VIIRS
I-Band SDR/Terrain Corrected GEO
M-Band SDR/Terrain Corrected GEO
DNB SDR/GEO
to (completed)
to (ongoing)
150 TB
ADL 4.2_MX8.11
OMPS
NP SDR/GEO
to (completed)
to (ongoing)
86 GB
ADL5.3.1
TC SDR/GEO
to (completed)
to (will be processed after CrIS is done)
1 TB

22. Suomi NPP Reprocessing SDR Status

23. Path Forward Improve the inter-sensor comparison products in ICVS
Add SDR level data quality monitoring capability in addition to TDR/L1B data
Develop S-NPP reprocessing SDR data quality demonstration web site
Improve the automatic anomaly warning messaging system to provide more accurate and timely instrument/data quality info
Explore the optimal solution for small-sat constellation instrument status and data quality monitoring