Future NOAA Satellites: Planning for Microwave Remote Sensing Readiness

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• Journal Title:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Personal Author:
  Iacovazzi, Robbie ; Liu, Quanhua “Mark” ; Cao, Changyong
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research)
• Description:
  COVID-19 has changed our daily life and reshaped the venue and format of international science conferences. The first Community Meeting on NOAA Satellites was held virtually via WebEx between 29 September and 2 October 2020. More than a thousand people registered for the meeting from more than 250 organizations across 33 countries. The meeting focused on operational space-based environmental observing system planning developments out to the 2030–50 time frame. It emphasized the needs for user-driven data-source-agnostic environmental products, as well as disaggregated satellite observing systems and enterprise ground segment solutions that can deliver those products. Presentations covered many nonlegacy NOAA- and partner-hosted satellite payloads and orbital constellation configurations. These included instrument hosting on small satellite and commercial platforms, and commercial data purchase agreements. It also included nonlegacy satellite orbits such as the Tundra high-Earth orbit.
• Keywords:
  Atmospheric Science
• Source:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(5), E1123-E1125
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-20-0291.1
• ISSN:
  0003-0007 ; 1520-0477
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  American Meteorological Society
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Library
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