Latest Status of National and International Low-Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellites—NOAA Updates on Data Processing, Distribution, and Product Generation to Users

NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) is committed to providing a continuous and reliable stream of satellite data and products to an assortment of domestic and foreign users. Data from a variety of national and international low-earth orbiting (LEO) satellites is ingested, processed, distributed, and archived by the NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO). LEO satellites capture data for a broad range of monitoring applications including terrestrial weather analysis and forecasting, climate research and prediction, sea surface temperature measurements, atmospheric soundings of temperature and humidity, ocean dynamics research, search and rescue, and many other important applications.

This presentation will brief on the current status of national and international LEO satellites from which OSPO ingests data including: NOAA-15/18/19, Metop, Jason-2/3, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC), the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP), and NOAA-20. Additionally, the talk will give an update on the status of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. Finally, this presentation will highlight how this critical data supports the NOAA mission and give an update on OSPO’s data processing, distribution, and product generation for legacy and new generation LEO satellites and other international satellites to users.