# Presentation: 060038

## NOAA’s

- NPOESS Data Exploitation (NDE) Project
- October 19, 2004
- Jim Silva,
- NOAA NPOESS Implementation Manager

## NDE Mission & Tasks

- NDE Tasks:
- Disseminate NPOESS Data Records (xDRs)
- Provide NPOESS xDR format conversion software
- Generate and disseminate repackaged xDRs (versions of the xDRs in alternative formats and views)
- Generate and disseminate NOAA-unique products (augmented environmental products constructed from NPOESS xDRs)
- Deliver NOAA-unique products to NOAA Long Term Archive (CLASS)
- Provide services to customers, including a Help Desk, NDE product training, support for product enhancement requests
- Coordinate NPOESS data utilization activities across NOAA

- NDE’S Mission** - **To provide products derived from NPOESS observations to NOAA’s operational and research communities in near-real time.

## Transition of NOAA’s Polar Satellite Mission

-  Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite
-  Forty year successful mission history
-  End of POES mission in 2012
-  NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) risk reduction
-  NPOESS continues polar mission

**Notes:**
Main Point – NDE IS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN CONTINUE CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS DURING THE NPOESS ERA.

The Timeline.  Significant dates are:
POES retirement -2012
NPOESS commissioning – late 2009
Explain NPP
Risk reduction – needed because of all the new technology (telecomm, instrumentation)
How the nation intends to prepare for the NPOESS era
Secondary Points - If we don’t take advantage of NPP, the earliest the civilian weather community will get benefit from NPOESS will be 2011.  NDE will:
Start to Provide benefits in 2007
Direct resources toward quality design, controlled development and smooth user transition.  (Past experience with transition programs has been poor. Scarce resources were taken from support of  current system to work on new system development in hurry-up mode.  Consequence was destabilization of current system and  ad-hoc [not designed] development.)

## NDE Project Provides The Connection to Customers

_**NDE Goals:**_** **
**Connect civilian customers to NPOESS**
**Near-real time product dissemination**
**Near-real time product processing**
**Provide new products and services**
**Products related to new instruments**
**New customer services**

- Service response

- Service request

- Environmental Product

-  Data Record
-     (generic)

**NPOESS**
**Ground**
**Systems**
- .

**NPOESS**
**Data**
**Exploitation**
**(NDE)**
* *
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- NDE Project Provides The Connection to Customers

**CIVILIAN CUSTOMERS**

## NDE System Overview

**NESDIS Central**

**NPOESS Data Exploitation (NDE)**

**Ingest**

**Product**
**Processing**

**Data & Product**
**Distribution**

**Data**
**Buffer**

**Customer **
**Services**

- NPOESS Ground System
- (IDPS)

- Customers

- CLASS

- NASA
- SDS

-   Meeting with other Centrals to explore potential for common NDE development strategies

## NDE Ensures Timely Delivery of NPOESS Products 

**New Products    **
**Higher Quality    **
**Improved Communications**
**NOAA Line Offices will rely on NDE to provide the NPOESS observations in near-real time**

- POES
- Satellite
- Observation

**Notes:**
Main Point: A capability of most interest to:
 the weather service, 
 the hazards community

##  Examples of Customer Benefits

-  Examples of Customer Benefits

## NPOESS Product Matrix

**Sample -- as of 13 Sep 04**

**Notes:**
Jim Silva asked whether the matrix had been distributed within NESDIS, whether we were capturing NESDIS’ requirements as well as those of the Line Offices.  Tom said yes.  John Paquette said that he had entered his hazard product requirements via the matrix. 
There was a question about whether ATMS TDRs and SDRs would both be available or whether one would supersede the other.

## NDE Baseline Product Development Strategy

| 

POES Continuity |  | FY07 | FY08 | FY09 | FY10 | Total | NPP Products In Development |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 

Tailored xDRs | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 2 |
|  |  | 1. ATMS Radiances
2. VIIRS Radiances (SST) | 1. Ozone Profile
2. Cloud Mask
3. SST
4. Active Fires
5. Veg Index | 1. Imagery
2. Snow Cover/Depth
3. Atmos Mositure Profile
4. Atmos Temp Profile
5. Surf type & veg cover
 | 1. Aerosol Opt Thickness
2. Aeorsol Particle Size
3. Surf Albedo
4. Total Column Ozone
5. OMPS Total Column
6. Cloud Cover/layers
7. Cloud top temp
8. Cloud top pressure |  | 1. Land Sur Temp
2. OMPS radiances
  |
|  | 

NOAA-Unique | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 14 |
|  |  | 1. CrIS Radiances | 1. Harmful Algal Blooms
2. Total Precip Water
 | 1. Snow Cover (ATMS)
2. Veg Health
3. Veg Moisture | 1. Blended Snow Cover
2. Veg Fraction
3. Rainfall (ATMS)
4. SST Anomalies
5. Coral Reef Deg Heat
6. Coral Reef Bleaching 
7. Cld Liq Water
8. Rainrate
9. Layered Precip Water |  | 1. Haz Support (Tropical)
2. Haz Support (Volcano)
3. Tropical Rainfall Potential
4. Drought indices
5. Fire Potential
6. Sur Emissivity
7. Sea Ice Concen
8. Ice Water Path
9. Skin Temp
10. Out Long Wave Rad (CrIS)
11 Out Long Rad (VIIRS)
12. Blended Total Ozone
13. Absorbed Radiation
14. Veg Thermal Conditions |

- NDE Baseline Product Development Strategy

## Opportunities for CooperationBetween Centrals

- Extend Shared Processing Agreement
- Reduce Operational Overhead
- Product Sharing
- Share Science Code:
- Product Validation
- Reduce Cost
- Backup and Recovery Support
- for example, a mission critical product approach

- Site B

- Site A

- 

- 

**Site A**
**Processing**
**Site B**
**Backup**

- Site A  Customer

**Site B**
**Processing**
**Site A**
**Backup**

**Site A**
**IDPS**

**Site B**
**IDPS**

**Site B Primary  Customer**

**Site B  Customer**

- Site A Primary  Customer

-  Shared processing Network , ancillary data link 

## Next Steps

- Meet with Centrals to discuss backup/recovery support, algorithm development, product exchange (Dec ’04)
- NDE Conceptual Design Review (May ’05)
- NOAA:NPOESS Interoperability Testing (Dec ’05)
- NDE Development Environment (Sept ’06)
- Begin assimilating/distributing NPP data (June ’07)
- Release quasi-operational products from VIIRS and ATMS (Sept ’07)

## Summary

- NDE is the vital link between NPOESS and civilian users
- NDE provides continuity of current polar satellite data applications
- NDE adds value to NPOESS products