Assessing Options for Multi-Satellite Constellation Deployment for Maximum Societal Benefit

For the last 5 years, NOAA has constructed a value tree in the NOAA Observing System Integrated Analysis (NOSIA-II). NOAA's value tree comprises strategic goals, mission services, and products and services, which are dependent on a very large portfolio of observing capabilities spanning ships and aircraft, satellites, rawinsondes, buoys, observation towers and stations. Measures of effectiveness throughout the value tree vary with the performance of these observing capabilities. One of the most important observing capabilities is NOAA's constellation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The Advanced Baseline Imager, the primary instrument onboard the newest GOES platforms, is improving every mission data product. NOSIA-II has been adapted to identify optimum opportunities for GOES constellation deployment options involving both legacy platforms and new platforms. This presentation will demonstrate NOAA's value tree sensitivity to the various constellation deployment options considered.