Supporting the 2023 NOAA CHAOS Hurricane Field Campaign with GeoCollaborate

During the 2023 NOAA Coordinated Hurricane Atmospheric-Ocean Sampling (CHAOS) Field Campaign, the NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring & Observing program used GeoCollaborate, an SBIR Phase III Technology to see how a real time collaborative environment can improve coordination efficiencies, situational awareness and decision making.

This presentation will highlight 6 innovations that were introduced during the field campaign that helped to improve cross line office and partner situational awareness including a dashboard of hurricane recon flight plans, planned dropsondes and location of ocean observing assets. The real time collaboration environment enabled live tracking of NOAA Hurricane Recon aircraft, WSRA and KaIA significant wave height data and flight plans for all researchers to prepare for potential coincident observations with LIVE observations coming from NOAA ocean observing platforms, saildrones, gliders and buoys. One of the conclusions of this effort is that accessing disparate trusted data in a collaborative environment across line offices and partners advances research that can benefit operations and keeps all participants informed on planned and underway missions. NOAA OAR and HRD/AOML supported this effort to accelerate research to operations.

Future applications and use cases will also be presented.