Other Links
This page contains links of interest to users of NOAA and other polar-orbiting satellite platforms with an emphasis on operational environmental monitoring and forecasting activities.
Quick links to the sections below: NOAA NASA Department of Defense International
Environmental Satellite Resource Center (ESRC)
The ESRC, developed by The COMET Program in association with NPOESS/IPO and NOAA/NESDIS, is a web-based search tool for finding useful satellite resources in areas ranging from satellite systems and applications, to data products, cases and examples, and education and training materials for both low-earth orbiting and geostationary environmental satellites. The ESRC offers multiple search options for accessing satellite materials for all knowledge levels. We encourage you to use the ESRC!
NOAA Links
CIRA's AMSU Web Site
Provides information relevant to the AMSU and derived products and includes a capability to browse
real-time AMSU products as they appear prior to dissemination to various NWS AWIPS sites.
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)
Describes the vision, mission and goals of the JCSDA.
JCSDA, with its partners in NOAA, NASA, U.S. Navy and U.S.
Air Forece, strives to increase and improve the quantitative
use of research and operational satellite data in weather, ocean,
climate and environmental analysis and prediction models. The site
includes links to news, science, meetings and seminars, publications,
and related links of interest.
NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC
(National Geophysical Data Center) DMSP Web Site
(Select "Data Availability" - left margin)
Provides access to the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) data archive.
NOAA/NESDIS
IJPS Home Page
This Web site is hosted by the U.S.’ NOAA/NESDIS and
provides information on the cooperative effort between NOAA
and EUMETSAT known as the Initial Joint Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite
System (IJPS). The goal of IJPS is to ensure coordination of two polar-orbiting
satellites systems to provide and improve operational meteorological
and environmental forecasting and global climate monitoring
services worldwide.
NOAA/NESDIS Marine Observing Products
Provides links to real-time SSM/I, scatterometer wind data
for both ERS-2 and QuikSCAT, sea surface temperature, ocean
color, and other data related to ocean properties.
NOAA/NESDIS Microwave Surface and
Precipitation Products System (MSPPS)
Provides information and product access relevant
to NOAA's operational microwave products processing system,
MSPPS. MSPPS produces near real-time surface and
precipitation products from AMSU-A and -B brightness temperatures.
Derived products include total precipitable water, cloud liquid
water, ice water path, rain rate, snow cover and water equivalent,
sea ice, land surface temperature, and other parameters.
NOAA/NESDIS Office of Satellite
Operations (OSO) Home Page
Provides GOES and POES status reports.
NOAA/NESDIS Office of Satellite
Operations (OSO): POES Status Page
Direct link to current NOAA POES spacecraft and instrument
status information.
NOAA/NESDIS Office of
Systems Development (OSD)
Provides specific news and information covering both current
and future operational geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites
systems.
NOAA/NESDIS Operational Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products
Provides direct access to real-time operational derived product
imagery from microwave sensors (AMSU and MHS) on board the
NOAA and MetOp polar-orbiting satellites. Products covered
include rain rate, total precipitable water, cloud liquid water,
snow cover, snow water equivalent, sea ice concentration, ice water path,
land surface emissivity (23 to 50 GHz), and land surface temperature.
NOAA/NESDIS POES Sounding Product Development
Provides access to atmospheric sounding, clouds, and radiation
products and information specific to processing of real-time
NOAA POES sounding instrument datasets from HIRS, AMSU and MHS.
The site includes status updates on instruments and spacecraft performance,
processing statistics, as well as documentation on the processing system and its various
components (ATOVS and future ATOVS System-200X).
NOAA/NESDIS Office of
Satellite Data Processing & Distribution (OSDPD):
Quantitative POES Satellite Products
Serves as a portal for access to a wealth of POES information
and products related to a variety of NOAA operational processing
systems (e.g. POES sounding products from the ATOVS system,
POES derived product imagery from the MSPSS system, AVHRR and MODIS imagery
and vegetation products, ocean products from the Environmental
Products System (EPS), cloud track winds, ozone measurements from the
Operational Ozone Product System (OOPS), DMSP SSM/I microwave products
from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and NOAA Shared Processing Program (SPP)).
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) Home Page
Provides an overview of NOAA satellite applications research relevant to both NOAA GOES and POES satellites,
with links to information and access to online products, both operational and experimental.
NOAA/NESDIS
Tropical Products Page & TRaP (Tropical Rainfall Potential) Home
Page:
Serves as a portal to real-time satellite-based products including
the TRaP (Tropical Rainfall Potential) product for tropical
latitudes around the globe. A link to a separate TRaP Web page
provides information on product development, best practices,
validation activities, and relevant training, while graphics
and rainrate imagery are available in both real-time and for
archived tropical cyclone events dating from 2006 to the present.
NOAA/NWS Alaska Region:
Real-Time Geostationary and Polar-Orbiting Satellite Imagery
Provides browse imagery of real-time geostationary and polar-orbiting
satellite products covering the Alaska Region.
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC (Environmental
Modeling Center) Marine Products
Provides links to various operational ocean modeling and analysis products. Discussions and product
links specific to POES satellite data can be found under Sea Ice, Marine Winds, and Sea Surface Temperature headings.
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC/OMB
(Ocean Modeling Branch) Sea Ice Home Page
Provides links to products and information related to sea ice analysis from satellite and its uses in
regional analyses and global modeling. OMB microwave-based sea ice products currently support sea ice
analysis efforts at the Anchorage Alaska WSFO, as well as sea ice and weather modeling activities at NCEP.
Follow the "Daily Sea Ice Analyses" link for product examples.
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NASA Links
EOS Aqua AIRS Instrument Home Page
Mission home page for the NASA AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) hyperspectral sounding
instrument. Site includes mission
information, instrument descriptions, science objectives,
a multimedia gallery, links to browse products and archived
data, and links to other relevant resource documents.
EOS Mission Profiles
Provides a nice pictorial summary of NASA's past, present, and future Earth observing satellites
with links to mission home pages, visualizations, and image galleries.
EOS Aqua Spacecraft Home Page - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Provides information about NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS)
Aqua spacecraft (the follow-on to Terra) and instrument suite
launched in May 2002. Also included are links to data products,
related science, publications, and visualizations.
EOS Terra Spacecraft Home Page - NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Provides an overview NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra
spacecraft and instrument suite launched in December 1999.
Also included are links to data, recent imagery, related science,
publications, and interesting visualizations.
EOS Satellite Program: Strategic Vision
Describes NASA's strategic vision of the EOS (Earth Observing System) satellite program, composed of a
series of polar-orbiting and low Earth orbiting (leo) satellites for monitoring of Earth's land, ocean,
atmosphere, biosphere, and solid Earth. Site includes links to satellite mission profiles, data services,
and products.
MODIS
and Other Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents (ATBD's)
This site includes a comprehensive listing of ATBD's for generating level-0 to -4 products from the
various remote sensing instruments flying on board NASA's constellation of Earth Observing System (EOS)
satellites (including Terra and Aqua). Documents are provided in PDF format.
MODIS Direct Broadcast at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Information about MODIS direct broadcast capabilities with links to overpass prediction software and output,
and real-time direct broadcast imagery generated at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
MODIS Home Page
NASA's official MODIS Website portal, providing links to news, data and products, product
algorithm information, presentations, publications, science team Web pages, and related sites.
NASA GOES POES Project
This site provides information on both the U.S. GOES and the joint U.S.-European Polar
Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) programs with links to documentation, products,
launch information, and other program specific schedules.
NASA/JPL Ocean Winds Home Page
Highlights NASA's ongoing ocean wind observing activities. The site includes an overview of
the scatterometry technology (active remote sensing) used to observe ocean winds, links to recent
application highlights, images and animations of interest, publications, educational materials
and data access.
NASA/JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
Provides access to archived data and information relevant to the physical state of the ocean
including ocean surface topography, ocean surface winds, and sea surface temperature.
NASA Science Missions
Summarizes and provides links to past, present, and proposed NASA Earth, sun, solar system,
and universe observing satellite missions.
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP)
Describes the NPOESS Preparatory Project. Included is a description of the transition from the
current EOS satellite program to NPOESS in the areas of science, technology, instruments, configuration
management, and product algorithm development. Contact information is provided for the various NPOESS
NPP project science teams.
Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) Home Page
Describes the goals, activities, and lessons learned of the NASA SPoRT program. The SPoRT Center was
established to infuse cutting edge satellite observations (e.g. MODIS VIS/IR imager, AMSR-E
microwave imager, and AIRS hyperspectral sounder) into National Weather Service forecast operations
and demonstrate short-term forecast improvement at the regional and local levels. The site also
includes links to samples of real-time polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite products distributed
to various NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO's).
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Department of Defense Links
NRL Monterey
Satellite Meteorology Home Page
Provides a browse capability for near real-time geostationary
and polar-orbiting satellite image products for select land
and oceanic regions spanning the globe. Links to product tutorials
are included as well.
NRL NexSat Web Site
This site offers near real-time access to polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite imagery and derived
products over the conterminous United States and Hawaii from several research and operational satellites.
Model data from FNMOC (Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center) and data from the National
Lightning Detection Network® are also accessible from the site.
The NexSat Web site serves as a public educational resource provided by NRL (Navy Research Laborabory)
and the NPOESS Integrated Program Office to preview capabilities of the VIIRS imaging instrument on
NPP & NPOESS spacecraft.
NRL WindSat Web Site
Provides a description for the NPOESS WindSat risk reduction project for microwave remote sensing of
ocean surface winds with the future operational NPOESS CMIS sensor. The document summarizes operational
needs for wind information, the scientific approach to passive wind retrieval, instrument design, and
preliminary data results.
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International Links
EPS Polar System Homepage
Visit EUMETSAT’s Web site to view information, documentation,
and visualizations on EUMETSAT’s first polar-orbiting operational
meteorological satellite system, the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS).
This page also provides links to additional resources on EPS benefits,
services, training and education, program background, presentations,
and more in-depth technical documentation.
ESA MetOp Home page
This European Space Agency (ESA) Web site hosts a wealth of information,
documentation, and visualizations on the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS).
WMO Space Program Home Page
This Web page is a portal to technical, science, training and
education information related to geostationary and polar-orbiting
meteorological satellite programs and systems from around the world.
WMO
Virtual Laboratory for Satellite Training and Data Utilization
This site contains links to the WMO Virtual Laboratory which is a
Web portal that organizes resources and information on training activities
for forecasters and other users of operational meteorological satellite
data and products across the globe. The Virtual Laboratory is a collaborative
effort joining major satellite operators and WMO “centers of
excellence” at WMO Regional Meteorological Training Centers
that are distributed around the world.
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