# Presentation: 201584

## Satellite Services Division
NOAA Science Center
Mission Briefing
January 28, 2003

- NOAA Science Center
- Mission Briefing
- January 28, 2003

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- National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

## Satellite Services Division 

- Today’s Agenda – 1.5 hrs
-  Introduction & Overview -- Reggie Lawrence
-  Satellite Analysis Branch -- George  Serafino, Chief
-  Interactive Processing Branch -- Sharolyn Young, Chief
-  Future Directions-- John Paquette, Team Lead, Products & Services
- Q & A
- Tour -- SSD Spaces

- National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

## Satellite Services Division

- Mission Statement
- “The Satellite Services Division supports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services mission by providing real-time and near real-time environmental data, analyses, and interpretations from polar-orbiting and geostationary operational environmental satellites to a diverse user community for environmental assessment, prediction, and stewardship.”

## Satellite Services Division Tech and Admin Staff

- Reggie Lawrence, Chief

- Alfreda Carter, Div. AA

- Kathy Dinkins, IPD Sec

- Debra Marchant, SAB Sec.

- Phil Neal, Tech Staff

**CATHY PAXTON**

**JOHN PAQUETTE**

**PHILLIP NEAL**

**ELIZABETH EWELL**

**THOMAS RENKEVENS**

**SHAROLN YOUNG**

**REGINALD LAWRENCE**

**GEORGE SERAFINO**

**ZIYADAH JACKSON**

**KATHY DINKINS**

**ALFREDA CARTER**

**DEBRA MARCHANT**

## Slide 6

## Satellite Services Division

- Government Personnel Resources
- 46 FTEs
- Contract Resources
- $25.0M support & services contract awarded to RSIS, Inc in February 2001
- Base contract is now $6M per year with 3 option years remaining
- Cost plus performance award fee
- 60 contract employees staffed in systems engineering, software engineering, communications, system maintenance, and 24/7 help desk areas.

## Satellite Services Division

## Satellite Services Division

- IT ARCHITECTURE

- STRATEGIC PLANNING
- PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

- CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS
- PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

**SSD Themes**

## Satellite Services Division

## Satellite Services Division

## Satellite Services Division

## Satellite Services Division

## Satellite Services Division

- Key Mission Areas:
- Hazards Support

- Numerical Weather Prediction Support
- NWS Field Offices & National Centers
- NOAA Coast Watch
- NOAA Web Services
- Central Satellite Data Distribution

- Special Events/Operational Significant Events Imagery

## SSD Products and Services

**Product Applications and Services **** **
**  ****Volcanic Ash Advisories**
**  ****Tropical Cyclone Monitoring**
**  ****Experimental Smoke and Fire Analysis**
** ****Heavy precipitation Estimates**

**Mission Area:   Natural Hazards Support**
**Function:  To provide interpretative analysis support in monitoring global natural hazards**

## SSD Products and Services

**Product Applications and Services :**** **
**   ****Events include, but not limited to**
**Dust storms**
**Wildfires**
**Sea ice events**
**Severe storms**
**Other hazards including volcanic ash and tropical cyclones**

**Mission Area:  Special Events/Operational Significant Events**
**                             ****Monitor**
** ****Function:  To provide specialized, high resolution imagery for significant natural and anthropogenic events on a world-wide basis**

## SSD Products and Services

**Product Applications  and Services **** **
**Daily snow cover**
**GOES Soundings**
**•****High density winds**
**•****Precipitation Estimates**

**Mission Area:  Numerical Weather Prediction Support**
** ****Function:   To provide global operational interpretive analysis support to NCEP**

## SSD Products and Services

**Product Applications and Services **** **
**  ****AWIPS satellite imagery**
** ****ASOS satellite cloud product**
** ****Heavy precipitation estimates (flash floods)**
** ****Remapped GOES, POES IR, VIS, & water vapor**

**Mission Area:   NWS and National Center Support**
** ****Function:  To provide NWS forecast and field offices, and national centers with operational satellite-derived products and services**

## SSD Products and Services

**Product Applications and Services **** **
**  ****Operational sea surface temperatures**
**  ****High resolution IR, VIS and water vapor image sectors**
** ****Ocean Color**

**Mission Area:     NOAA Coast Watch**
** ****Function:   To provide operational satellite-derived products and in-situ data to Federal , state, and local marine scientists and coastal resource agencies and managers**

## SSD Products and Services

**SSD Web Sites and Services **** **
**  ****Volcanic Ash Advisories**
** ****International GOES imagery browser**
** ****Operational significant imagery browser**
** ****Coast Watch**
** ****Hazard Analyses**
** ****GOES special bulletins, eclipse & dissemination schedules**

**Mission Area:       NOAA Web Services**
** ****Function:  To provide public and private access to satellite-derived products and services produced by Satellite Services Division**

## Some of SSD’s Customers

**  ****NWS Forecast Offices, National Centers, and Riverforecast Centers**
**  ****National Marine Fisheries Service**
**  ****World Meteorological Organization (WMO)**
**  ****European Weather Center**
**  ****Bureau of Reclamation**
**  ****NASA**
**  ****Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center**
**  ****The Weather Channel**
**  ****National Snow and Ice Data Center**
**  ****Various Worldwide Universities**
**  ****Department of Defense (Air Force Weather Agency )**
**  ****National Weather Service (NWS)**
**  ****Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)**
**  ****Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)**
**  ****US Airlines (United, Continental, American, Atlas)**
**  ****Federal Express**
**  ****20 Meteorological Watch Offices in Mexico, Central America, northern South**
**   ****America, and Caribbean**

## Websites of Interest

**Operational Significant Event Imagery Website (**_[http://www.osei.noaa.gov](http://www.osei.noaa.gov/)_**)**
**Satellite Services Division Website (http://www.ssd.noaa.gov)**
**Joint Typhoon Warning Center Products (http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc.html)**
**National Hurricane Center (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/products.html)**
**Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/)**
**Global Volcanism Program (http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/gvn/notices.htm)**
**National Interagency Fire Center (http://www.nifc.gov)**
**Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) (http://www.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/fireglobe/)**
**NASA Global Fire Monitoring (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GlobalFire/fire_5.html)**
**International Geosynchronous Imagery (http://www.goes.noaa.gov)**