The NPOESS satellites will produce an unprecedented quantity, quality, and variety of operational remote sensing information that must be distributed in near real time to its user community.
Environmental Data Production and Delivery for NPOESS
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The NPOESS satellites will produce an unprecedented quantity, quality, and variety of operational remote sensing information that must be distributed in near real time to its user community. The NOAA/DoD/NASA Integrated Program Office is working with users, contractors, and community experts to develop operational concepts, architectures, interfaces, and standards to handle the information production needs in a cost effective manner over the life cycle of the NPOESS program. NPOESS data will be delivered at three progressive Data Record processing levels: Raw, Sensor, and Environmental. The overall data handling problem is 30-100 times greater than current programs. Products will be delivered by the NPOESS Interface Data Processor Segment (IDPS) at the four U.S. weather Centrals for additional processing and forwarding to the entire user community and to long term archives. Products will also be available direct from the satellite to local ground receivers (field terminals) worldwide, using an IPO-developed software processing package.