SatCORPS Hybridized Cloud Product Web Mapping Application: the Web Application That Leverages the Strengths of Satellite Imagers, AWS Tools, and Cloud Parameters.

The NASA Langley Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) team provides powerful tools for interacting with meteorological Imagery data from satellite imagers. These near-real-time (NRT) solutions are a response to the increasing demand for research and enhanced modeling within the climate and weather communities. LEO (SNPP, JPSS-1, AQUA, MODIS) and GEO (GOES-West, GOES-East, Metesat-11, Metesat-8, and Himawari-8) satellite imagers are fused into hourly mosaics to create the low-latency Global Cloud Composites (GCC). This GCC data are ingested into the Esri ArcGIS enterprise, which is hosted on NASA Earth data Cloud and enables multidimensional geostatistical services that can be seamlessly integrated within user or SatCORPS applications. The GCC data is translated to Analysis Rady Data (ARD) for efficient implementation into forecasting, disaster management, and earth sciences remote sensing applications. The data are then accessible through RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), pulled ArcGIS Image Services, and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Coverage Services to offer a wide range of end points that users can incorporate into their own applications. Similarly, there is a NASA airborne field campaigns API service that retrieves aircraft flight track and metadata about each specific flights. Based on the parameters and date, users may visualize any real-time or historical NASA and NOAA field campaign flights as a GeoJSON overlay layer in addition to displaying the flight path of all currently active aircraft. These are some of the aspects that complement the meteorological operations to provide support for NASA programs and enhance the application’s capabilities.

The culmination of these capabilities is an all-encompassing web mapping application, allowing end users to visualize various time enabled global and meteorological parameters, alongside cloud and weather impact data from airborne and ground-based field experiment programs. For our presentation, we will preview this interactive SatCORPS web mapping application, geospatial services, and other functionality to enable the user data access to the low-latency global cloud products discussed above. We will illustrate the foundation and design of our newest SatCORPS GCC web visualization tool, discussing integration of GCC product into NASA Airborne Mission Tool Suite (MTS) and our associated mapping features.