NOAA NESDIS Commercial Data Program Overview and Status

The NOAA NESDIS Commercial Data Program (CDP) successfully engages with the private sector to obtain commercial satellite data that helps meet NOAA’s observing system objectives. The purpose of NESDIS CDP is to assess and acquire value-added space-based commercial environmental observation data to augment existing data streams in support of NOAA's operations and research. The NESDIS CDP manages two lines of effort, the Commercial Weather Data Pilot projects to demonstrate the quality and impact of commercial data on environmental applications and the Commercial Data Purchases to support operational weather applications.

In this talk, we will provide updated information on the current status and future plans for commercial weather data pilot projects and continuous purchases of operational space-based environmental data under NESDIS’s Commercial Data Program. In addition, we will briefly discuss the evaluation results of the Space Weather Data Pilot and Ocean Surface Winds Pilot and future plans in operationalizing data from these pilots with an eye toward potential commercial data purchases by the NESIDS CDP to support NOAA’s operational missions.