Cloud-Native Product Processing for Current and Next-Generation Environmental Monitoring Instruments

Satellite ground system product processing within a major cloud service provider such as AWS or Azure can streamline lifecycle costs and potentially improve mission performance compared with traditional on-premises satellite ground systems. L3Harris has worked with NOAA to prototype a flexible, robust, secure and cost-efficient cloud-native product processing system to execute GOES-R L2+ enterprise science algorithms. Instrumental to the prototype, the L3Harris developed Cloud-Native Product Processing System (CNPPS) provides proven product streaming and processing techniques and technologies to ingest and process high-rate instrument data in near real-time. The resulting prototype establishes an enterprise approach to high-performance product processing, managing data and workflows, and monitoring performance, while simplifying sustainment and maintenance, and improving research to operations times.