1. Real-Time GOES/POES Data Access
Donna McNamara, Distribution and Scheduling Lead
Bonnie Morgan, McIDAS Lead
NOAA / NESDIS / OSPO / Mission Operations Division (MOD)
Matt Seybold, User Service Team
NOAA / NESDIS / OSPO / Satellite Product and Services Division (SPSD)
NOAA Satellite Conference – April 10, 2013
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2. NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) Key Roles
Ground System Command & Control, Ingest, Product Generation and Distribution for the nation’s 17 environmental satellites
4 Geostationary (GOES) by NOAA
5 Polar-Orbiting (POES) by NOAA
6 Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) operated by NOAA
1 OSTM Jason-2 (Ocean Surface Topography Mission) Joint NOAA, NASA, CNES, EUMETSAT effort
1 Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) by NOAA & NASA
NSOF
Pre-Launch and Post-Launch Testing
Operational Testing, Validation, and Verification
User Readiness
Long-Term Continuity of Products and Services

3. NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO)
Locations at four facilities housing 700 OSPO staff
NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland, MD
Mission Operations Division
NOAA Center for Weather & Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, MD
Satellite Product and Services Division
Command and Data Acquisition in AK and VA
NSOF
Fairbanks CDA
NCWCP
Wallops CDA

4. Satellite Information Flow
POES NOAA-19 (PM)
Center for Satellite Applications
and Research (STAR)
GOES-15 (West)
GOES-13 (East)
Non-NOAA
(Jason, DMSP, Meteosat, MTSAT,
EOS, COSMIC, others)
Product Development
Algorithm Development
Science Maintenance
METOP-A (AM)
Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO)
Also:
GOES-14 (Standby)
GOES-12 (S.A.)
POES-18/17/16/15
Satellite Operations Control Center
Environmental Satellite Processing Center
Fairbanks Ground
Station - POES
Wallops Ground
Station - GOES
Process and Distribute
Command and Control
Data
Products
Office of Systems Development (OSD)
Customers
Ground Systems
IT Enterprise Architecture
Archive and Access
(CLASS)
NESDIS Data Centers

5. Products (Derived & Interpretive)
Atmospheric Chemistry
Atmospheric Temperature
Fire and Smoke
Hurricane Intensity and Position
Imagery (e.g. Visible, IR, WV)
Land Cover – Ice, Snow, Vegetation
Ocean Color
Satellite Derived Winds (WS,WD,H)
Sea Surface Height & Temperature
Sounder Profiles and Imagery
Space Weather
Volcanic Ash and many more…
More on products later in the week

6. Data Access Services
Current Access Services (in addition to Direct Broadcast)
Data Distribution Service (DDS) – (s)FTP push/pull from secure accounts *
NWS Telecommunications Gateway
GINI (GOES Ingest and NOAAPORT Interface) / NOAAPORT for Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
SATEPSDIST – GOES, POES, and Derived Products; McIDAS *
Shared Processing DAPE Gateway – for military partners *
MODIS server – subset of products made by NASA *
Websites -
* Require Data Access Request
Archival
NODC, NGDC, and NCDC archive data products using CLASS
Note photo of customer antennas from one of the local companies – SSEC at U. of Wisconson-Madison.
The NOAAPORT broadcast system provides a one-way broadcast communication of NOAA environmental data and information in near-real time to NOAA and external users. This broadcast service is implemented by a commercial provider of satellite communications utilizing C-band.
Customer Use of Servers…
GINI: NOAAPort/AWIPS, NWS, Unidata
Satepsdist: NWS/NCEP, DOD, STAR, SAB, Universities, Private Industry
DDS: NWS/NCEP/EMC, ECMWF, UKMET, STAR, DOD

7. McIDAS Data Delivery Summary
SATEPSDIST –
Geostationary satellite data is ingested on a Satellite Data Ingestor (SDI), converted to McIDAS format and placed on a server.
In addition, some foreign geostationary data, polar data, model data and derived products are converted into McIDAS.
This data is served via McIDAS ADDE software:
Data NSOF Server ADDE Name
Derived Products SATEPSDIST1e DPD
GOES-E SATEPSDIST2e GER
GOES-W SATEPSDIST3e GWR
Polar SATEPSDIST4e PLR
Model data SATEPSDIST5 MOD
Global Mosaic 5 Sat. Comp. SATEPSDIST6 MOS
MSG/MET SATEPSDIST6e MSG / MET
MTSAT SATEPSDIST7e MTS
Select requested data SATEPSANONE PUB (not operational)
Surface/Ship Buoy/RAOBs FOS2 FOS (Family of Services)

8. Sample of GINI and AWIPS Products
Created and distributed through GINI
Imagery
Sounder “images”
Created outside of GINI, but distributed through GINI
Five satellite composite files (VIS, IR, WV)
Sounder Derived Products (TPW, LI, CTP, ECA, Skin-T)
Imager Derived Products (LCB)
Polar (POES and DMSP) microwave derived products (TPW, Rain Rate, blended TPW)
SSM/I AMSU Blended RR products
Created outside of GINI, distributed outside of GINI, but appearing within AWIPS
Precipitation Autoestimator (PG on satepsdist1, PD from DDS to AWIPS)
GOES BUFR and POES BUFR Soundings
High Density Winds
ASCAT
Text Messages: SPENES, VAA, Tropical Bulletins, Help Desk messages
ASOS Satellite Cloud Products

9. Total Precipitable Water SuperN.PW.1A Lifted Index SuperN.LI.1A
Surface Skin Temperature SuperN.SKT.1A
Cloud-Top Height SuperN.CTP.1A
Not shown…
Effective Cloud Amount SuperN.ECA.1A

10. Plus Many Direct Readout Users!
End Product Metrics
35 satellites carrying 182 instruments are used in
183 applications to produce 1,065 end products1
170 Servers conduct ingest, generation, distribution2
568 User organizations access the end products
568 Users A B C D E
1,065 End Products
30,500+
Subscriptions
An Application is the image or science software running in ESPC that ingests satellite data & generates End Products.
An End Product is generated by an Application and may vary by satellite, instrument, region, format, resolution, etc.
Frequency of data delivery varies by product (e.g. event-driven, 1/day, 6/day, 300/day).
Plus Many Direct Readout Users!
1 End products vary by satellite, instrument, region, format, resolution
2 Frequency of data delivery varies by product (e.g. event-driven, 1/day, 6/day, 300/day).

11. Data Access & Distribution Policy Contact: NESDIS.data.access@noaa.gov
Full policy and forms at
Security requirement to know and document all users accessing operational data servers and what products they are receiving
Users request data using a Data Access Request (DAR) form.
Ever increasing data volumes require 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 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.
If available, users will be directed to sources of data that are external to NESDIS but still fulfill data requirement.
We will make best efforts to recommend alternative distribution sources for users that are denied access to operational servers.

12. Data Access & Distribution
DDS Re-Validation was accomplished in 2012
Migration to new DDS was completed
There was a 17% reduction in the number of approved accounts
SATEPSDIST Re-Validation starting around May 1
Part of migration to new GEODIST servers
GEODIST will likely host ONLY McIDAS ADDE access
McIDAS GROUP/DESCRIPTOR access restrictions will be enacted for external users
It very important users identify all datasets they need
All non-McIDAS files will be served via DDS
Contact information for SATEPSDIST users were not well maintained, so if you are a current user who has not been contacted, let us know ASAP to get a DAR form.
GEODIST scheduled to be operational in Aug (may be delayed)
-- Planning for 30 days parallel test period prior to becoming operational
-- Planning to have SATEPSDIST run with 8x5 support for 2 weeks after cut-over date.

13. Future Data Access & Distribution
New enterprise system Product Distribution and Access (PDA) is coming
Will be used for legacy GOES/POES, NPP, IJPS and GOES-R data access
Operational for legacy and NPP planned for Oct 2014 – talk to follow
McIDAS ADDE access will remain on GEODIST

14. Notifications & Status
and ask to be added to ESPC Notification list.
General Satellite Messages from ESPC:
WMO Bulletins on the GTS (Global Telecommunications System):
WMO header NOUS71 KNES (AWIPS ID ADANES) for urgent notices (e.g., outages or anomalies)
WMO header NOUS72 KNES (AWIPS ID ADMNES) for routine notices (e.g., eclipse schedule, RSO, etc.)
Non-Operational Sources:
Sat Ops Status:
Twitter:
Facebook:
Press Release:

15. Contact Information
24/7 Help Desk
User Services
Data Access
Webmaster
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