DoD User Applications Mr. Ralph Stoffler HQ USAF/A3W 28 April 2015 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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DoD User Applications

• Mr. Ralph Stoffler

HQ USAF/A3W 28 April 2015

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DoD Weather Satellite Programs

 DMSP  Continuous coverage since 1962  6 satellites on-orbit  Visible/IR imager  Microwave imager/sounder  Space environmental suite  1 satellite preparing for launch  Weather System Follow-on (WSF)  Planned to launch ~2021  May include conical microwave

imager

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Final DMSP-13 image

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Last Scan Line: 03 Feb 2015 14:32:46Z

DMSP-13

 Launched 24 Mar 1995  Experienced an anomaly on

3 Feb 2015

 Last data received from our

tactical site in Kuwait as the satellite ascended over the Arabian Peninsula

 Anomaly investigation

results pending

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After nearly 20 years in operation, DMSP-13 was still providing valuable imagery to tactical users in the field

Yemen Djibouti Ethiopia

Final DMSP-13 image

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Direct read-out capability

US Air Force MARK-IVB Network

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Ali Al Salem AB Lajes Field Kapaun AS Kadena AB Hickam AFB Elmendorf AFB Andersen AB METEOSAT MTSAT GOES MetOp TERRA NOAA DMSP AQUA Soto Cano AB COMS S-NPP GEO/LEO LEO

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Direct read-out capability

US Air Force MARK-IVB Network

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 Prepared to receive Himawari-8 rebroadcast via ‘HimawariCast’  Completed GOES-R rebroadcast analysis – will require upgrades  NOAA/USAF agreement to augment COSMIC-2 collection

Yellow Circles: Candidate sites under NOAA consideration Blue Circles: Existing USAF MARK IV-B sites being modified for COSMIC-2 Dashed-Circle: Potential USAF MARK IV-B site

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Day-Night Band

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 Improves upon a

legacy DMSP capability

 Enhances detection

• f low clouds at night

 Detection of threats

to populations such as power disruptions and wild fires

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Day-Night Band Example

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DMSP Broadband Visible Channel JPSS VIIRS Day Night Band

 Improved spatial resolution provides unprecedented details of

nighttime activity

 NOTE: The mile-long tunnel on the John A. Burns Freeway

appears as a break in the lights along H-3

Both images received by the MARK-IVB site in Hawaii

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Environmental Awareness

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 Improves upon a legacy

DMSP capability

 Enhances detection of

relevant microscale features

 True color imagery

enables monitoring of littoral environment

 Enhances support to

humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations

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Tropical Cyclone Monitoring

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 DoD’s Joint Typhoon

Warning Center routinely utilizes polar imagery in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

 Critical capability for

determining tropical cyclone position and intensity fixing

 This is a DNB/infrared

composite image generated from S-NPP data received by our MARK-IVB site on Guam on 30 Mar 2015 Typhoon Maysak by moonlight Guam

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Global Cloud Analysis/Forecast

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Conclusion

 DoD will continue to fly DMSP spacecraft well into the next

decade; archived data available from NGDC

 Weather System Follow-on is early in the acquisition process  Civil and International METSAT sources such as JPSS will

continue to be critical components of DoD’s environmental monitoring mission

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Questions?

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