Bringing the NOAA Value Tree into the present: the NOSIA Content Refresh project

The Technology, Planning, and Integration for Observation (TPIO) division within NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA was tasked by the NOAA Observing System Council (NOSC) in 2013 to create a NOAA-wide Value Model that can derive an integrated value of observing systems for NOAA’s diverse suite of missions. This model, also known as the NOAA Observing System Integrated Analysis (NOSIA), was completed in 2014 and has served as a decision support tool for NOAA Line Office (LO) leadership. However, the model currently doesn’t include impacts from GOES-16/17, JPSS-1 (aka NOAA-20), and DSCOVR, since those satellites were launched post-2014. Additionally, several other observing systems have been decommissioned and there have been many organizational and mission priority changes across NOAA LOs since 2014. This talk will discuss TPIO’s efforts in updating the NOAA Value Tree and how the updates improve the use of the NOAA Value Model as a decision support tool.