1. Overview of Current and Future NOAA Polar Satellite Systems Gene Legg Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution North America – Europe Data Exchange Meeting Silver Spring, MD, May 3-5, 2006

2. Satellite Services Division Dave Benner - Product Transition and Implementation - Prototype Operations - NCEP/JCSDA/ORA Interface -NIC -SARSAT/DCS Program Management Division Barbara Banks - Office wide Program Management - Strategic Planning - Budget Formulation - Performance Measures - OSD Interface Information Processing Division Reginald Lawrence - OSDPD CIO - GOES/POES Processing - Data Distribution - Network/Communications - IT Support Contract OSDPD Functional Re-alignment OSDPD

3. Upcoming Launches POES SpacecraftLaunch Readiness or Need Date Planned Launch Date METOP-1 (am)December 2005June 2006 NOAA-N’ (pm)June 2007December 2007 METOP-2 (am)March 2010August 2010

4. Constellation Configuration NOAA-18 (5/20/05) –Primary PM satellite –GACs –LACs –HRPT on STX-1 (1698.0 MHz) –APT NOAA-17 (6/24/02) –Primary AM satellite –GACs –LACs –HRPT on STX-3 (1707.0 MHz) –APT NOAA-16 (9/21/00) –Secondary PM satellite –GACs –LACs –HRPT on STX-2 (1702.5 MHz) –No APT NOAA-15 (5/13/98) –Secondary AM satellite –GACs –No LACs (downlink constraint) –HRPT on STX-2 (1702.5 MHz) –No APT NOAA-14 (12/30/94) –Standby satellite –No GACs –No LACs –HRPT on STX-3 (1707.0 MHz) –No APT NOAA-12 (5/14/91) –Standby satellite –No GACs –No LACs –HRPT on STX-1 (1698.0 MHz) –APT

5. NOAA-15 N-14 2118A (drift= +3.2 min/mo) N-12 1702A (drift=-+1.2 min/mo) 1745A (drift = -2.0 min/mo) Sun 1200 Local noon NOAA-16 1511A (drift=+3.2 min/mo) NOAA-17 2222A (drift= -0.6 min/mo) Constellation Configuration NOAA-18 1347A (drift= -1.0 min/month)

6. DATA HANDLING THERMAL CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND CONTROL ELECTRICAL POWER COMMAND AND CONTROL NOAA 12 Standby NOAA 14 Standby NOAA 15 Secondary AM NOAA 16 Secondary PM NOAA 17 Primary AM NOAA 18 Primary PM SUBSYSTEM POES On-Orbit Status Spacecraft Bus (as of 4/28/06) (* indicates situation change from previous report) Y Y G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G Y Y G Y G G G G G Y G Y R Y Y Y G G G Operational – Capable of meeting all requirements Degraded (Limited operational use) – Capable of meeting some, but not all requirements Failed – Unable to meet requirements G

7. MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder AMSU-B Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B AMSU-A2 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A2 Scan Motor AMSU-A1 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A1 HIRS High Resolution Infrared Sounder AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer NOAA 12 Standby NOAA 14 Standby NOAA 15 Secondary AM NOAA 16 Secondary PM NOAA 17 Primary AM NOAA 18 Primary PM SUBSYSTEM POES On-Orbit Status Spacecraft Bus (as of 4/28/06) (* indicates situation change from previous report) G Y G Y Y Y G R G G G G Y G G Y R G G Y R Y G Y G G Operational – Capable of meeting all requirements Degraded (Limited operational use) – Capable of meeting some, but not all requirements Failed – Unable to meet requirements Y YY MSU R

8. SEM Space Environment Monitor SBUV Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer SARP Search and Rescue Processor SARR Search and Rescue Repeater DCS Data Collection Subsystem SSU Stratospheric Sounding Unit NOAA 12NOAA 14NOAA 15NOAA 16NOAA 17NOAA 18 SUBSYSTEM POES On-Orbit Status Instruments (cont) YGGGGGGGYRG Operational – Capable of meeting all requirements Degraded (Limited operational use) – Capable of meeting some, but not all requirements Failed – Unable to meet requirements GGGYYGRGGYYGGGY G G G G G

9. MHS replaced AMSU-B Field of View Size Change for HIRS HIRS specific calibration and format changes AMSU-A specific calibration and format changes AVHRR specific format change Other 1b/1b* format changes New Telemetry data file NOAA-N Changes

10. MHS and AMSU-B Differences – Channels Frequency are Similar  Channels with different frequency »H2 and 17 »H5 and 20 –Number of warm target PRTs  MHS has 5  AMSU-B has 7 –Different Algorithms for Calibration –1b/1b* format similar NOAA-N Changes

11. HIRS Issues –Field of View Size Change for HIRS HIRS/4 10KM FOV compared to HIRS/3 20KM FOV –Patch Temperature changed from 100 to 95K –Added a 5 th Internal Warm Target temperature sensor and third telescope temperature sensor –Added extra bit to the electronic serial number in the Digital A data stream Element 63 Bits 40-44 Software change Bits will be redefined in 1b NOAA-N Changes

12. HIRS Issues (Cont.) –Software Correction for the Operational HIRS Lunar Intrusion detection –HIRS Calibration Algorithm Version 4.0 NOAA-N Changes

13. AMSU-A Issues –Correction of Lunar contamination Minor change to 1b format –Header and Data record –Correction for sudden jumps in the calibration counts (NOAA-17 Channel 3 anomaly) Minor change to 1b format –Header and Data record NOAA-N Changes

14. AVHRR Issues –Change to AVHRR Scaling Factors for some of the AVHRR nonlinear radiance coefficients –IR Operational/Test Cal Channel 4 coefficient 3 –IR Operational/Test Cal channel 5 Coefficient 3 NOAA-N Changes

15. Other 1b/1b* Format changes –Additional Headers added Ancillary Data Set Names added Quality Information added NOAA-N Changes

16. New Telemetry File –File will contain telemetry that is not contained in instrument 1b Will be useful for MIU data when in Non- nominal modes All telemetry data will now be archived NOAA-N Changes

17. IJPS, IPS Overview of Upgrades for Metop New Ingestor and Front End Processor (FEP) –Ingest of common instrument data, from the GDS as CCSDS VCDUs, in pipeline mode –Frame synchronizing and filtering of GDS data at Ingest –Receipt and distribution of ASCAT, GOME and GRAS Level 1b and IASI Level 1c products –Ingest blind orbit GAC, in pipeline mode

18. IJPS, IPS Overview of Upgrades for Metop(Cont.) New Preprocessor –Processing on a distributed (scalable processor) AIX (UNIX) platform for parallel operations –Preprocessing of blind orbit GAC in pipeline mode –Producing common instrument Level 1b’s from Metop in pipeline mode –Producing new Level 1b’s for MHS and Full Resolution GAC (FRAC)