NPOESS Data Exploitation Project
Abstract
The NPOESS Data Exploitation (NDE) Project will link the civilian environmental satellite information users to data collected by the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). NPOESS products will start replacing the data from existing Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) systems within the next few years and will continue providing polar-orbiting satellite observations to NOAA until approximately 2020. To reduce the risks associated with the introduction of NPOESS' innovative technologies, an NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite will be placed in orbit, starting to supply prototypical NPOESS products in 2008. The NPOESS program will continue well beyond the year 2018 to ensure continuous service from a complete constellation of three operational NPOESS satellites. The NDE project will continue in parallel throughout the entire period of the NPOESS program. NPOESS provides a new generation of remote sensing and satellite technology. NPOESS data volumes will peak at about 8 terabytes per day in 2014. This will require more than a 100-fold increase in NOAA data management capacity. The data will be delivered much more quickly than current satellite observations, arriving within 30 minutes of observation. Both the volume expansion and the improved timeliness require NOAA to upgrade its satellite product generation and distribution infrastructure in major ways.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005AGUFM.B43E..03G
- Keywords:
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- 0498 General or miscellaneous;
- 0499 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)