# Presentation: 203075

## NOAA Observing Systems Architecture (NOSA)Investment Analysis Update 

**Eric Miller**
**Acting NOAA Observing Systems Architect**
**July 28, 2004**

## NOSA Investment Analysis

**Value of Observing Systems***

**Cost of Observing Systems**

**Gap**
** ****Analysis**

**Cost Determination**

**Observing System Investment Analysis**

***Value is considered to be the contribution an observing system makes toward satisfying a requirement**

## Assessing Value of Observing Systems

**Surveyed NOAA programs’ Priority-1 (Mission Critical) observing requirements**
**Flexibility to add/subtract/modify requirements**
**Ecosystem Goal:  "important" requirements**
**Identified current/planned/proposed observing systems that could contribute value toward satisfying each Priority-1 requirement**
**Programs assessed value of all relevant investment options in terms of satisfying its Priority-1 requirements**
**Flexibility to add/subtract/modify investment options**

## Assumptions

**Each Priority-1 (Mission Critical) Observing Requirement equally valuable to NOAA**
**Each Program within each Goal equally valuable to that Goal**
**Each Goal equally valuable to NOAA**

## Limitations

**Focused only on Priority-1 (Mission Critical) Observing Requirements**
**External solutions not studied in detail**
**Equal weighting of all Requirements, Programs, and Goals**
**Subjective but quantitative evaluations by Goal- designated representatives (internal to NOAA only)**

## NOAA-Wide Gap Analysis

**Updated Results**

## Survey Status

## Updated Survey Results

**Over 60 Participants representing every Goal and the 26 programs/areas with observing requirements**
**Over 400 different investment options (current and future) were proposed and evaluated against over 400 specific Priority-1 observing requirements**
**Over 400 survey forms were administered encompassing about 5000 individual value assessments**

## Outline of Goal-specific Analyses1 of 2

**Number of Requirements by Goal**
**Number of Observing System Options by Goal**
**Top Current Observing Options by Goal**
**Gap Analysis by Goal**
**Expansion options**
**Upgrade options**
**Combined Upgrade and Expand Options**

## Outline of Goal-specific Analyses2 of 2

**Value distribution of selected systems across Goals**
**Bubble Charts **_**by Goal**_** (TBD)**
**Current**
**Future**
**Combined**

## Number of Goal Requirements and Systems Evaluated by Goal

| Goal | Requirements | Total Options | Current Options | Future Options |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ecosystems | 189 | 208 | 106 | 102 |
| Climate | 61 | 108 | 47 | 61 |
| Weather and Water | 150 | 122 | 53 | 69 |
| Commerce & Transportation | 46 | 87 | 45 | 42 |
| Total | 446 | N/A | N/A | N/A |

## Preliminary Top 20 Most “Valued” Current Observing Systems

- * **Below-average score for depth**

**NESDIS-POES/DMSP**
**NESDIS-GOES***

**NWS-BUOY**
**NWS-C-MAN**
**NWS-ASOS***
**NOS-NWLON**
**NWS-VOS**
**NOS-SWMP***
**COTS***
**NMFS-Protected Resource Surveys**
**NWS-COOP***
**OAR-TAO/PIRATA**
**NWS-RAWINSONDE***

**OAR-ETL-RAWINSONDE**
**NWS-MDCRS**
**P3 Aircraft Surveys**
**NMSS- Living Marine Resources & Ecosystems Surveys***
**ROV***
**NEXRAD**

**Non-Satellite Systems**

**Satellite Systems**

## Top Current Observing Options by Goal

| Ecosystems | Climate | Weather and Water | Commerce and Transportation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NMFS-CREWS | NESDIS-Satellites (GOES, POES) | NESDIS-Satellites (GOES, POES)
 | NWS-BUOY |
| NOS-SWMP | OAR-TAO/PIRATA | NWS-RAWINSONDE | NESDIS-Satellites (GOES, POES)
 |
| NMFS-Protected Resource Surveys | Ocean reference stations (3) | OAR-ETL-Rawinsonde-MW11 | NWS-C-MAN |
| ROV | NOAA/CMDL Baseline Atmospheric Observatories | NWS-MDCARS | NWS-VOS |
| COTS (Coastal Observation Technology System) | NWS-ASOS | NWS-ASOS | NWS-RAWINSONDE |
| NWS-BUOY | NWS-VOS | NWS-BUOY | NWS-ASOS |
| NMFS-Living Marine Resource and Ecosystem Surveys | SOOP (33) |  | P3 |
| SeaKeys Network | NWS-COOP |  | NOS-NWLON |
|  |  |  | NWS-DART Buoys |
|  |  |  |  |

## Value Distribution by Goal

**Value Distribution by Goal**

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- 100

- 200

- 300

- 400

- 500

- 600

- 700

- 800

- NESDIS-NPOESS

- NWS-BUOY

- NESDIS-GOES

- NWS-C-MAN

- NMFS-CREWS

- NWS-VOS

- NWS-ASOS

- NWS-RAWINSONDE

- NOS-SWMP

- NOS-NWLON

- OAR-TAO/PIRATA

- OAR-ETL-Rawinsonde-MW11

- NMFS-Protected Resource Surveys

- ROV

- NWS-COOP

- COTS

- NMFS-Resource and Ecosystem Surveys

- SeaKeys Network

- NOS-PORTS

- NWS-MDCARS

- Weather&Water

- Ecosystems

- Commerce&Trans

- Climate

## Cross-cutting Systems:  Example

- NWS-Buoy Valuable to Multiple Goals

## Preliminary Top New/Novel Systems*

**NWS-UAV 10,000 flights/year**
**NESDIS-Active Radar Satellite**
**OAR-FSL GPS water vapor sensor**
**Altair UAV**

- *Systems w/ new capabilities—not upgrades of current capabilities

## Gap Analysis by Goal—Top Expansion Options

| Ecosystems | Climate | Weather and Water | Commerce and Transportation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OAR-TAO/PIRATA | OAR-TAO/PIRATA | OAR-TAO/PIRATA | NOS-PORTS |
| NMFS-CREWS | Ocean reference stations (3) | NWS-ASOS | NWS-BUOY |
| ROV | Aerosol Monitoring Network (CMDL Baseline Observatories) | NWS-C-MAN | NWS-RAWINSONDE |
| NMFS-National Observer Program | CMDL Column Spectral Aerosol Optical Depth  | P3 | NOS-NWLON |
| ORA-Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY)* | NOAA/CMDL Baseline Observatories | NOS-NWLON | NOS-HYDRO |
| AUV | NOAA/CMDL Ozone Profile Network | NWS-BUOY | AUV |
| NMFS-Protected Resource Surveys | NOAA/CMDL Water Vapor Soundings | NOS-PORTS | NOAA ocean mapping |
| NOS-NS&T Mussel Watch |  | OAR-ETL-LIDAR-MOPA | NOS-NCOP |
| Multibeam/backscatter sonar - shipboard |  | NWS-MDCARS | NWS-ASOS |

## Gap Analysis by Goal—Top Upgrade Options

| Ecosystems | Climate | Weather and Water | Commerce and Transportation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NESDIS-NPOESS | NESDIS-Satellites (GOES-R, NPOESS) | NESDIS-Satellites (GOES-R, NPOESS) | NESDIS-Satellites (GOES-R, NPOESS) |
| NOS-HYDRO | Volunteer Observing Ships | NWS-COOP | NWS-BUOY |
| NWS-ASOS | NWS-MDCARS | Ron Brown | NOS-PORTS |
| NESDIS-GOES |  | Twin Otter | NWS-C-MAN |
|  |  | AIRMon |  |
|  |  | NWS-ASOS |  |
|  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |

## Gap Analysis—Top Combined Expansion and Upgrade Options

| Ecosystems | Climate | Weather and Water | Commerce and Transportation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NOS-Sanctuary Monitoring | Tall Towers Carbon Cycle Atmospheric Observing System (North America) (3 towers)  | NWS-COOP | NOS-PORTS |
| NWS-BUOY | Light Aircraft Rental-Climate Air Chem | NWS-BUOY | NWS-BUOY |
| NOS-PORTS | CMDL Carbon Cycle Global Cooperative Air Sampling Network | NWS-ASOS | NWS-C-MAN |
| Acoustic Doppler profiler - fixed installation | NOAA/CMDL Surface Ozone Monitoring Network | NWS-C-MAN | NWS-ASOS |
| NOS-Sanctuary Surveys |  | NOS-PORTS | NWS-COOP |
| Water column sampling stations |  |  |  |
| NWS-C-MAN |  |  |  |

## Preliminary Ranking of All Current and Future Satellite Options

**Current**
**External data (from non-NOAA satellites)**
**NESDIS-POES, GOES**

**Future**
**NESDIS-GOES-R, NPOESS**
**NESDIS-Active Satellite Radar**
**L4 or similar orbit**
**L1 or similar orbit**
**Space-based wind LIDAR (polar)**
**GPS occultation**
**Pole-sitter platform**
**Satellite altimetry derived geo vectors (current speed & direction)**

## Preliminary Ranking of All Current Non-Satellite Observing System Options (1 of 3)

**Acquire Data Externally**
**NWS-BUOY**
**NWS-C-MAN**
**NMFS-CREWS**
**NWS-VOS**
**NWS-ASOS**
**NWS-RAWINSONDE**
**NOS-SWMP**
**NOS-NWLON**
**OAR-TAO/PIRATA**
**OAR-ETL-Rawinsonde-MW11**
**NMFS-Protected Resource Surveys**
**ROV**
**NWS-COOP**
**COTS**
**NMFS-Living Marine Resource and Ecosystem Surveys**
**SeaKeys Network**
**NOS-PORTS**
**NWS-MDCARS**
**P3**
**NWS-DART Buoys**
**Multibeam and backscatter sonar - shipboard**
**Diver surveys**
**NMFS-National Observer Program**
**Water column sampling stations**
**Video - in-water**
**Camera sled**
**NOS-NS&T Mussel Watch**
**NESDIS-USCRN**
**NWS-NEXRAD**
**OAR-ETL Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Obs System**
**Global drifting buoys**
**Aerial color photography - film**

**Aerial color photography - digital**
**Ron Brown**
**Fixed-station survey**
**Multibeam and backscatter sonar - launch mounted**
**Ocean reference stations (3)**
**Aerial hyperspectral imagery, digital - CASI**
**Profiler**
**Still photography - in-water**
**Transect survey**
**Aircraft w/LIDAR**
**Divers, towed**
**OAR-ARL-SURFRAD**
**ORA-Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY)**
**Twin Otter**
**NMFS-Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey**
**NOAA/CMDL Baseline Atmospheric Observatories**
**AUV**
**Aerial multispectral imagery**
**Wave/tide recorders - fixed installation**
**Acoustic Doppler profiler - fixed installation**
**OAR-ETL-LIDAR-MOPA-ost**
**Conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) casts**
**AIRMon**
**SOOP (33)**
**NOS-Sanctuary Monitoring**
**OAR-CREWS**
**NOS-HYDRO**
**Current meters - in-water**
**OAR-Periodic Visual Sruveys**
**OAR-STRATUS**
**OAR-AOML-Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)**
**OAR-FSL GPS water vapor sensor**

## Preliminary Ranking of All Current Non-Satellite Observing System Options (2 of  3)

**Airborne Ozone UV-Differential absorption lidar (DIAL) Leased Aircraft**
**RSOIS**
**OAR-ARL-ISIS**
**Acoustic Doppler profiler - shipboard**
**Other Living Marine Resource Surveys**
**Towed side scan sonar**
**NOAA/CMDL Stratospheric Aerosol Lidar Network**
**NOS Visual Reef Census Work**
**Side-scan sonar**
**Station surveys - in-water**
**NOS-Sanctuary Surveys**
**NOS-Hydrographic surveys**
**OAR-ETL-449 Radar**
**OAR-ETL-Fish LIDAR**
**Ozone Profiling Atmospheric Lidar (OPAL)**
**Aerosol Monitoring Network (at 5 CMDL Baseline Observatories + 4 additional sites)**
**CODAR ocean sensors - SeaSonde radar**
**Field biological surveys**
**Manned submersible**
**OAR-Profiler Demonstration Network**
**Camera bait stations - in-waterDrop camera**
**OAR-Profiling Radar-Tethered Aerostat Radar System**
**Deployed temperature recorders**
**NWS-NOHRSC Airborne Snow Survey**
**NMFS-Commercial Statistics**
**NWS-LTG**
**OAR-Precipitation Profiling Radar**
**PACRAIN**
**Passive acoustic monitors - in-water**
**Reef development history**
**OAR-GSLN-UHSLC (170 gauges)**

**OAR-Profiling Radar (ETL)**
**Radiometer casts from ships**
**CMDL Column Spectral Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) (sub-set of CMDL Aerosol Pgm)**
**Nephelometry/beam attenuation**
**OAR-AL-Tropical Pacific Wind Profilers**
**Recon Flights w/ Dropsondes**
**Shipboard PAR sensors**
**Shipboard spectroradiometer**
**NOAA/CMDL Column Ozone (Dobson) Monitoring Network**
**Forward and downward pointing video cameras - shipboard**
**OAR-PMEL-FOCI**
**OAR-ETL 5mm Scanning Radiometer**
**Hydrophone data loggers - in-water**
**NMFS - Protected Resource Surveys**
**OAR CREWS**
**Secchi disk**
**Transect surveys - in-water**
**ABAEL (355 nm aerosol lidar) 1 Instrument**
**Halocarbon and other Atmospheric Trace Species Network (5 components) **
**OAR-CMDL-STAR**
**SEAS/XBTs**
**OAR-Profiling Radar-Cooperative Agency Profilers**
**OAR-Profiling Radar-NOAA Profiler Network (NPN)**
**Photography from towed divers**
**Trawls**
**NOAA/CMDL Surface Ozone Monitoring Network**
**Surface-tracked drifiting buoys**
**OAR-Wind Profiling Radar VHF (AL)**
**Fixed-station surveys - in-water**
**HF radar national network**
**NOAA research vessels**

## Preliminary Ranking of All Current Non-Satellite Observing System Options (3 of 3)

**NWS-FNP**
**NWS-Profiling Radar-Alaska Network**
**OAR-Periodic Fixed Sation Samples**
**Port sampling**
**Tall Towers Carbon Cycle Atmospheric Observing System (North America) (3 towers) **
**NOAA/CMDL Ozone Profile (Ozonesonde) Monitoring Network**
**Tows-nets**
**Traps**
**NOS Estuarine Living Marine Resources (ELMR) Program**
**NOS Biogeography Program Survey**
**NOS-National Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Program **
**OAR-ETL-LIDAR-HRDL-ost**
**AWPA**
**DCP**
**NOS-NCOP**
**OAR-ETL ground-based atmospheric IR emission interferometer**
**OAR-Surface Recorder**
**DCPS**
**Radar Wind Profilers During Intensives**
**Light Aircraft Rental-Climate Air Chem**
**CMDL Carbon Cycle Global Cooperative Air Sampling Network**
**Aerial hyperspectral imagery-digital**
**Forward and downward pointing video cameras - camera sled**
**OAR-ETL ground-based dual-channel microwave (22 & 31 GHz)**
**Aircraft tracking**
**NADP National Atmospheric Deposition Program**
**National Coastal Assessment Partnership Program**
**OAR-Bottom sediment traps**
**OAR-water column sample stations**
**Photography - digital**
**RASS**
**Repeat WOCE carbon inventory**

**Sampling Stations**
**Surface LIDAR**
**OAR-ETL-Windprofiler-RB**
**Acoustic tagging**
**CMDL**
**Contaminant monitoring surveys**
**NOS-Land-based surveys**
**NWS ARC and LARC**
**NWS Stream Gauges**
**OAR-Wind Profiling Radar UHF (AL)**
**Photography - film**
**Sonic Anemometers**
**NOAA/CMDL Balloon-borne Water Vapor Soundings**
**National Profiler Network**
**NOS-CORS**
**OAR-Fish net pen visual surveys**
**Volunteer Observing Ships**
**Electronic tags**
**NOS-Shipboard Surveys**
**NWS-ETL-SODAR**
**OAR-ETL-SODAR**
**Aircraft Observations**
**NOS-Aerial surveysNWS-LARC**
**Ship Reports**
**Tagging studies**
**Acoustical surveys**
**Diver transects**
**NOAA ocean mapping**
**Trap surveys**
**HF radar R&D**
**Volunteer fish counts**
**OAR-ETL-LIDAR (Ground-based)**

## Preliminary Ranking of All Future Non-Satellite Observing System Options (1 of 3)

**NWS-BUOY**
**NWS-C-MAN**
**NMFS-CREWS**
**OAR-TAO/PIRATA**
**NWS-COOP**
**NWS-VOS**
**NWS-ASOS**
**NWS-RAWINSONDE**
**NOS-SWMP**
**NOS-NWLON**
**NOS-PORTS**
**ROV**
**NMFS-Protected Resource Surveys**
**NWS-MDCARS**
**NMFS-Living Marine Resource and Ecosystem Surveys**
**SeaKeys Network**
**P3**
**NMFS-National Observer Program**
**NWS-UAV **
**NWS-DART Buoys**
**Multibeam and backscatter sonar - shipboard**
**Water column sampling stations**
**NOS-NS&T Mussel Watch**
**Ron Brown**
**Diver surveys**
**Camera sled**
**Video - in-water**
**NESDIS-USCRN**
**NWS-NEXRAD**
**Global drifting buoys**
**AUV**

**ORA-Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY)**
**Twin Otter**
**Multibeam and backscatter sonar - launch mounted**
**Aerial color photography - film**
**Ocean reference stations (3)**
**NOS-Sanctuary Monitoring**
**Aerial color photography - digital**
**OAR-Argo (3000)**
**Fixed-station survey**
**Still photography - in-water**
**NOAA/CMDL Baseline Atmospheric Observatories**
**Divers, towed**
**Aircraft w/LIDAR**
**OAR-ARL-SURFRAD**
**Acoustic Doppler profiler - fixed installation**
**AIRMon**
**NMFS-Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey**
**Transect survey**
**Wave/tide recorders - fixed installation**
**OAR-ETL-LIDAR-MOPA-ost**
**Conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) casts**
**NOS-HYDRO**
**OAR-STRATUS**
**SOOP (33)**
**NOS-Sanctuary Surveys**
**Current meters - in-water**
**OAR-ARL-ISIS**
**Other Living Marine Resource Surveys**
**Aerosol Monitoring Network (at 5 CMDL Baseline Observatories + 4 additional sites)**
**Airborne Ozone UV-Differential absorption lidar (DIAL) Leased Aircraft**

## Preliminary Ranking of All Future Non-Satellite Observing System Options (2 of 3)

**CODAR ocean sensors - SeaSonde radar**
**NOAA/CMDL Stratospheric Aerosol Lidar Network**
**Towed side scan sonar**
**OAR-ETL-Fish LIDAR**
**Station surveys - in-water**
**CMDL Column Spectral Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) (sub-set of CMDL Aerosol Pgm)**
**OAR-AOML-Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)**
**Ozone Profiling Atmospheric Lidar (OPAL)**
**OAR-ETL-449 Radar**
**OAR-FSL GPS water vapor sensor**
**Field biological surveys**
**Altair UAV**
**Camera bait stations - in-water**
**Drop camera**
**NWS-NOHRSC Airborne Snow Survey**
**Radiometer casts from ships**
**Deployed temperature recorders**
**OAR-Profiling Radar (ETL)**
**Passive acoustic monitors - in-water**
**Shipboard PAR sensors**
**Tall Towers Carbon Cycle Atmospheric Observing System (North America) (3 towers) **
**OAR-PMEL-FOCI**
**Recon Flights w/ Dropsondes**
**Reef development history**
**Shipboard spectroradiometer**
**Nephelometry/beam attenuation**
**NMFS-Commercial Statistics**
**NWS-LTG**
**OAR-Precipitation Profiling Radar**
**Forward and downward pointing video cameras - shipboard**

**Hydrophone data loggers - in-water**
**ABAEL (355 nm aerosol lidar) 1 Instrument**
**CMDL Carbon Cycle Global Cooperative Air Sampling Network**
**Light Aircraft Rental-Climate Air Chem**
**NOAA/CMDL Ozone Profile (Ozonesonde) Monitoring Network**
**NOAA/CMDL Surface Ozone Monitoring Network**
**OAR CREWS**
**Profiler**
**Secchi disk**
**NOAA/CMDL Column Ozone (Dobson) Monitoring Network**
**Port sampling**
**Transect surveys - in-water**
**Volunteer Observing Ships**
**Photography from towed divers**
**SEAS/XBTs**
**NOAA/CMDL Balloon-borne Water Vapor Soundings**
**Electronic tags**
**Remote sensing technologies**
**Fixed-station surveys - in-water**
**NOAA ocean mapping**
**NWS-FNP**
**OAR-Profiling Radar-NOAA Profiler Network (NPN)**
**Add carbon capability to moorings**
**Arrhenious Interferometer   **
**Ground-based magnetic observatory**
**Ground-based Neutron Monitor**
**NOS-CORS**
**NOS-NCOP**
**OAR-ETL Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Obs System**
**Repeat WOCE carbon inventory**
**OAR-Bottom sediment traps**
**OAR-Fish net pen visual surveys**

## Preliminary Ranking of All Future Non-Satellite Observing System Options (3 of 3)

- OAR-Bottom sediment traps
- OAR-Fish net pen visual surveys
- OAR-water column sample stations
- NOS-Shipboard Surveys
- NWS ARC and LARC
- Surface LIDAR
- Tagging studies
- Halocarbon and other Atmospheric Trace Species Network (5 components)
- Ozone Sondes
- Sky Arrow
- Acoustical surveys
- Diver transects

## Potential Capability Improvements (Study Required)(In Alphabetical Order)

**NESDIS-GOES R (from GOES I-P)**
**NESDIS-GOES R P3I (from GOES R)**
**NESDIS-NPOESS (from POES/DMSP)**
**NWS-COOP Modernized**
**NWS-UAV 1000 flights/year w/Dropsondes (New Capability)**

**Total of 29 capability improvements proposed**
**Average increase of nearly 7% in number of observation measured (breadth)**
**Average increase of nearly 16% in value of contribution to measurement (depth)**

## Potential Combined Capacity and Capability Improvements (Study Required)(In Alphabetical Order)

**NOS-PORTS upgraded and expanded**
**NOS-Sanctuary Monitoring upgraded and expanded **
**NWS-BUOY upgraded and expanded**
**NWS-C-MAN upgraded and expanded**

**18 combined upgrades and expansions proposed**
**Nearly 16% average increase in value in measuring observation**
**Nearly 36% increase in number of types of observations**

## Current NOAA Systems

**Current NOAA Systems**

## Current NOAA Systems plus External Systems Used by NOAA

**Current NOAA Systems plus External Systems Used by NOAA**

## Current plus Possible Future Systems: NOAA-wide

**Current plus Possible Future Systems: NOAA-wide**

## Current plus Possible Future Systems: NOAA-wide

**Current plus Possible Future Systems: NOAA-wide**

- Goal is to have future systems move Up and to the Right

## Investment Analysis:  Next Steps

**Complete validation of surveys:****	****	****	****Jul 23**
**Ensure data accurately captured **
**Complete Gap analyses****	****	****	****	****Jul 30**
**Identify gaps between requirements and **
**	****current capabilities**
**NOSC Input to AGM:  ****	****	****	****	****Aug 5**
**Develop preliminary focus areas for Goal Team programming  **
**Improve observation requirements coordination across Goals**
**Eliminate **_**unnecessary**_** redundancy**
**Decide on path: increase current system capacity versus improving current system capabilities**
**Decide on path: increase breadth versus depth of **
**	****current/planned systems**
**Integrate preliminary cost info****	****	****	****Aug 16**
**Obtain investment and life-cycle sustainment**
**	****costs from programs**
**Select focus areas based on initial cost info****	****Aug 22**
**Update investment recommendations****	****	****Oct 15****	****	****	**
**	****	****  **

## Questions?

## BACKUP

## Preliminary Results:Descriptive Statistics

**Baseline systems/options were evaluated in 2 ways:**
**Breadth - The number of  different Priority-1 observing requirements a system contributes toward measuring**
**On average each baseline system contributes toward measuring 7.75 different Priority-1 requirements (environmental parameters)**
**The number of Priority-1 requirements observed by each system ranges from 1 to 109**
**Depth - How valuable a contribution a system makes towards measuring each observation (on a scale of 1-10)**
**On average each baseline system contributes a value of 5.6 towards measuring each Priority-1 requirement**
**Median value 6**
**Standard deviation 1.9**
**Each system was then “valued” by taking the product of its Breadth and Depth**

## External Observing Systems

**65 different external systems/options were evaluated in 2 ways:**
**Breadth - The number of  different observations a system contributes toward measuring**
**On average each baseline system contributes toward measuring 3 different observations (vice NOAA’s 7.75)**
**Values ranged from 1 to 16 observations**
**Depth - How valuable a contribution a system makes towards measuring each observation (on a scale of 1-10)**
**On average each baseline system contributes a value of 6.2 (out of 10) towards measuring each observation (vice NOAA’s 5.6)**
**Median 7**
**Standard deviation 2.5**

## Capacity Analysis

**For each Priority-1 observing requirement each participant was invited to offer one or more “expanded” options (e.g. increase the number of platforms) for each baseline system that measures that requirement**
**Capacity gaps were then identified by taking the difference between the baseline value score and the expanded system value score**
**Participants indicated capacity gaps by scoring the baseline system at the lower end of the scale and their proposed expanded system at the higher end of the scale.**

## Capability Analysis

**For each Priority-1 observing requirement each participant was invited to offer one or more enhanced (e.g., add new instruments) and/or upgraded options for each baseline system that measures that requirement**
**Capability gaps were then identified by taking the difference between the baseline value score and the enhanced/upgraded system value score**
**Participants indicated capability gaps by scoring the baseline system at the lower end of the scale and their proposed enhanced/upgraded system at the higher end of the scale.**

## Preliminary Top 10 Future System Improvements

**NESDIS-NPOESS**
**NESDIS-GOES R**
**NESDIS-GOES R P3I**
**NWS-UAV 1000 flights/year w/Dropsondes (New)**
**NWS-COOP Modernized**
**NWS-RAWINSONDE expanded**
**NOS-PORTS upgraded and expanded**
**NWS-BUOY upgraded and expanded**
**NWS-C-MAN upgraded and expanded**
**NOS-Sanctuary Monitoring upgraded and expanded **

## Potential Capacity Improvements (Study Required)(In Alphabetical Order)

**NMFS-CREWS expanded**
**NMFS-Protected Resource Surveys expanded**
**NOS-AUV expanded**
**NOS-NWLON expanded**
**NOS-ROV expanded**
**NOS-SWMP expanded**
**NWS-ASOS expanded **
**NWS-BUOY expanded **
**NWS-C-MAN expanded**
**NWS-RAWINSONDE expanded**

**About 100 capacity expansions proposed**
**Average increase in value of nearly 30% **
**Average increase in number of observations of 1%**