Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond (2004) / Chapter Skim
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6 Findings and Recommendations
6 Findings and Recommendations
Pages 83-90
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satellite systems will deliver improved operational data products to an increasingly diverse environmental satellite data user community. The increase in the volume of data delivered to NOAA, and from NOAA to end users, will be orders of magnitude above the present volume.
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The goals of this plan should be to facilitate access to current, historical, and future environmental satellite data and products in ways that acknowledge the range of skills and evolving needs of the user communities and to support these users by providing appropriate supporting information and educational material. Finding: The national and individual user requirements for multiyear climate system data sets from operational environmental satellites, as currently delin eated in the Climate Change Science Program strategic plan,1 are placing special demands on current and future data archiving and utilization systems.
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,2 which quantify subtle but important global change trends, is not a task that can be accom plished solely in routine operational environments (such as with the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and Geo stationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
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b. CLASS should be designated and developed as NOAA's primary data archive system for environmental satellite data and other related data sets.
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NOAA should consider both centralized and decentralized approaches to managing the generation and distribution of environmental satellite data products to ensure cost-effective and efficient utilization of existing human and institutional expertise and resources. Centralized handling should be provided for operationally critical core products and should include the acquisition, processing, distribution, archiving, and management of calibrated, navigated radiances and reflectances at the top and bottom (atmospherically corrected)
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DATA ACCESS AND UTILIZATION Finding: Data from diverse satellite platforms and for different environmental variables must often be retrieved from different sources, and these retrievals often yield data sets in different formats with different resolution and gridding. The multiple steps currently required to retrieve and manipulate environmental satellite data sets are an impediment to their use.
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Satellite data providers and the scientific research community should also take a leading role in facilitating collaboration with their end-user partners. These efforts should include outreach, training, and technical assistance for the more sophisticated user communities as well as for the rapidly emerging nonscientific, nongovernmental user groups, with the ultimate goal being to enable straightforward and effortless user access to environmental satellite data and data products.
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An integrated, sustainable basis for the stewardship of future operational systems, sensors, and algorithms should be fostered by establishing close cooperation between the research and operational agencies responsible for the utilization of environmental satellite data (including their development, collection, processing and reprocessing, validation, distribution, and exploitation) , with research and operations viewed as a continuum and not as two independent areas of effort.
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