GOES-R User Readiness Planning

Kathy FontaineUSRP Lead

GOES-R GS ProjectSatellite Direct Readout Conference

Miami, FLApril 12, 2011

User Readiness Planning

• Topics– Approach– Systems– Plans

User Readiness Planning• Approach

– System by system, working with Ground, Flight, and Program and relevant NOAA and/or NWS contacts to• Identify users and user groups• Identify changes in GOES-R to that system• Prepare awareness, communication, and training plans and schedules to bring

users up to speed

• Systems– Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS)– Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)– Environmental Satellite Processing Center Product Distribution and Access

(ESPC PDA)– GOES Rebroadcast (GRB)

User Readiness Planning• User Readiness Plan

– Communications and training needs and approaches from the NOAA/NWS side

• User System Readiness Plan– Awareness of NOAA/NWS efforts plus training, simulators, and end-to-

end testing activities from the GS side• Other Program/Project Science Activities

– Proving Ground– GOES User Conference– Satellite Direct Readout Conference– Product User Guide– Presentations at relevant meetings such as AMS

User Readiness Planning• Status– Approach to gathering information and reporting on User

System Readiness Plan approved– Working on status for each system now– User Readiness Plan in development– Schedules, training, and other pertinent information to be

developed• For USRP, target is late spring/early summer• For URP, target is early summer (?)

– Will put info on readiness activities on the GOES-R web site as it becomes available.

User Readiness Planning

• Still early in the process• Questions, concerns, comments as we

progress – send to – Kathy Fontaine (kathy.fontaine@nasa.gov)– Jim Gurka (james.j.gurka@nasa.gov)