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From the GEONETCast Americas Coordination Group and AmeriGEOSS GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A): Delivering Regional and National Data, Products and Observations Presented by: Paul Seymour, NOAA/NESDIS Ms. Irene Parker Meeting, Silver Spring;

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GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A):

Delivering Regional and National Data, Products and Observations

Presented by: Paul Seymour, NOAA/NESDIS

  • Ms. Irene Parker Meeting, Silver Spring; November 2, 2016

From the GEONETCast Americas Coordination Group and AmeriGEOSS

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GEONETCast Americas What is GEONETCast?

  • GEONETCast is a distribution system for

environmental satellite data and products using commercial TV satellites and low cost, off-the- shelf reception technology;

  • GEONETCast is a Foundational Task under the

GEO Common Infrastructure

– Previously: part of GEO Task – IN-04: GEOSS Communication Networks

  • GEONETCast Americas is a Foundational Task

within AmeriGEOSS

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GEONETCast Americas Mission and Objectives

  • GEONECast’s Mission: “Provide data distribution system

within GEOSS by which environmental data and products will be transmitted to users through regional networks over communications satellites.”

  • Objective: “Provide global information as a basis for sound

decision making in critical areas”.

– “Focus on areas of the world where high speed land lines and/or internet are not available or in regions where terrestrial communication lines have been disrupted by disasters.”

  • WMO Region III/IV Satellite Data Requirements and Support

GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas

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GEONETCast Americas General Description

  • Regional component of the

Global GEONETCast

  • Provided by the U.S./NOAA
  • Footprint covers
  • Most of North America

Caribbean Region Central South America

  • Operational since Spring 2008
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  • 6.7 total (6.35 content) megabits

per second data rate

  • Intelsat-21 (IS-21) geostationary

satellite

  • Multiplexed C-band DVB-S

transponder at 58 deg W

  • > 99.5% availability – in actual
  • perations close to 100%

GEONETCast Americas Commercial Satellite Broadcast

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GEONETCast Americas System

Data Management System Server & Datacast Software

IP Encapsulator MPEG-2 Encoder DVB-S/DVB-S2 Modulator Teleport Uplink

US NESDIS OSPO US EPA US NWS ISCS Int’l WMO Region III Int’l WMO Region IV US NESDIS NCDC EUMETSAT / CMA GEONETCast Systems

Data Providers GEONETCast Americas System Users

User Receive Terminal User Receive Terminal

r

NOAA Remote Adminis- tration

GEONETCast-Americas System Architecture

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GEONETCast Americas Channels and Products

  • Product broadcast channels
  • Separate broadcast virtual sub-

channels by data provider

  • Users can choose sub-channels
  • Disaster Charter, Training, ISCS/Alert

Channels Included

  • Any file format can be disseminated
  • GNC-A team developing a

visualization / conversion toolbox

  • Coordination with INPE SIGMACast
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GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) INPE / Brazil SIGMACast Project

  • Develop an operational software based on JAVA and

GIS Allows the user to visualize, analyze and combine layers

  • Geographical information system, desktop based,

developed specifically for the GEONETCast users.

  • Training on receive stations and data content
  • Includes installation of 25 stations in Brazil in the

regional centres (agreement already signed with the centers).

– All stations shipped, 50% installed

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GEONETCast Americas Example Providers

  • Brazil: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais / National

Institute for Space Research (INPE)

– Derived regional products including fire monitoring, lightning, rainfall nowcasting, UV index, drought monitoring and sea surface related products.

  • Argentina: Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales

and Servicio Meteorológico Nacional / Argentina National Space Activities Commission and National Meteorological Service (CONAE/SMN)

– Average heights and direction of waves and significant waves in graphic and text for marine areas

  • Costa Rica: Instituto Meteorológico Nacional / National

Meteorological Institute (IMN)

– Winds and streamlines forecasts and model fields

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GEONETCast Americas Example Providers

  • El Salvador: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos

Naturales / Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN)

– GOES-13 imagery graphic products – WRF and NCEP (.5 degree) model fields for Central America including Mexico, the Caribbean and South America

  • US: NOAA/NWS “International Services and

Communication Systems” (ISCS) Activity

– Replaces the WMO Region IV RMTN Broadcast – Satellite Re-broadcast of the GTS Internet File Service (GIFS) – Warnings, Discussions, NCEP Model Output, Caribbean Radar Observations, Tropical Weather Information – Data is organized on the hard drive in the same folders as GIFS

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GEONETCast Americas Example Providers

  • European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological

Satellites(EUMETSAT) – SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data - MSG - 0 degree, Atmospheric Motion Vectors, Cloud Analyses, Cloud Top Heights, Metop A and B ATOVS Sounders products, ASCAT Coastal Winds

  • International Charter Space and Major Disasters

– Products for Disaster Mitigation (on Demand; still in trials and testing)

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GEONETCast Americas Example Providers

  • US: NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC North American Drought

Monitor (NADM)

– Monthly North Americas Drought Monitor product – Monthly reports in English, Spanish and French

  • US: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

– Hourly animated air quality maps of ozone – Real time animated particulate matter

  • US: NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite and Products Operations

(OSPO) – GOES-East Full Disk, Northern and Southern Hemisphere Images in GEOTIFF Format – Ozone, Chlorophyll, Tropical Rainfall Potential, Global Vegetation, Snow and Ice Products, Rainrate, Ocean Surface Wind Speed

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GEONETCast Americas Content Discovery

  • GEONETCast Product Navigator w/ associated metadata

– Same “look and feel” across regional systems – Updated periodically; distributed daily via GNC-A broadcast – Internet Independent – WWW: http://navigator.eumetsat.int/discovery/Start/Explore/Quick.do – Internet Independent

  • Illustrated Product Catalog

– GNC-A www page: – http://geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov/other-publications.html

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GEONETCast Americas Receive Station

Satellite antenna: 2.4 m. with LNB and cables DVB-S (s2) PCI internal receive card, USB or ethernet external receiver box Personal computer with Kencast Professional client software Note: 1.8 meter antennas can be used in some locations after investigation

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GEONETCast Americas Receive Station

  • Standard off-the-shelf components keep costs lower
  • Portable station with gas generator, 1.8m antenna,

laptop computer and no installation costs: ~$ 2,500

  • Quality Station with 2.4m antenna*, better than

adequate computer, self installation: ~$ 5,700

  • Quality Station with 2.4m antenna, custom mast,

shipping from US, professional installation: ~$11,000 *2.4 m antennas work almost anywhere; 1.8 meter units require evaluation Receivers range between $100 PCI cards to DVB-S boxes at ~ $400 to DVB-S2 ethernet boxes at ~ $600

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GEONETCast Americas Receive Station – Example Cost

  • Standard off-the-shelf components keep costs lower
  • Example cost from one actual installation:

– Personal computer - ~ $2,632 $ 800 – Client datacasting software - ~ $ 575 $ 575 – 2.4m antenna, LNB (mast/shipping) - ~ $1,391 $ 5,336 – DVB-S External Ethernet - ~ $ 319 $ 454 – Installation (costs vary widely by location) - ~ $ * $ 2,200 – Taxes (vary by location; used 16%) ~ $ 783 $ 1,494 – Total: ~ $5,6799 $10,859 – * Self installation: cost absorbed by organization – Note: No recurring subscription costs for KenCast FAZZT

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GNC-A Receive Stations

50 Operational, 16 being installed/repaired, 4 Planned

On-line

  • Argentina (1)
  • Barbados (1)
  • Belize (1)
  • Brazil (19)
  • Chile (1)
  • Colombia (5)
  • Costa Rica (4)
  • Cuba (1)
  • El Salvador (5)
  • Mexico (8)
  • Panama (1)
  • Puerto Rico (1)
  • USA (2)

Planned: Argentina (1); Dominican Republic (1);

Peru (1); Aruba (1) Installed/Repaired: Brazil (12); Canada (1), Haiti (1); Mexico (2)

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GEONECast Americas Capacity Bldg – National Networks

  • Small but growing list of “National Networks”
  • Data From The Region For the Region
  • Costa Rica: 4 stations at HydroMet &Airports

– Operational backup for terrestrial telcomms

  • El Salvador: 5 stations at HydroMet and Airports

– New products & innovative method of viewing products

  • Colombia: Stations at IDEAM & Regional Centers

– Installed 5 GNC-A stations with approx. 6 more to go

  • Mexico: Space Agency, HydroMet , Universities

– 3 stations installed; 10 stations planned

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GEONETCast Americas Disaster Charter

  • GEONETCast approved for use as an auxiliary data

distribution system by the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters

  • Project begun to formalize relationship between

GEONETCast and the Disaster Charter based on a request from the region

  • A formal test will be scheduled later this year
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GEONETCast Americas NWS / ISCS Satellite Broadcast

  • U.S. National Weather Service "International Services and

Communication Systems" (ISCS) added to GNC-A April 20

  • Timely collection and delivery of both time-critical and routine

watches, warnings, observations and forecasts.

  • Primary delivery by FTP - GTS Internet File Service (GIFS)
  • Added to GNC-A as a satellite backup for their users
  • Possible conversion of some ISCS stations
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GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) Short Term Initiatives

  • Priority - Develop a user-friendly interface

to facilitate the visualization of products

– Continue Collaboration with INPE SIGMACast Project – Continue collaboration with the WMO Virtual Laboratory for Training and Education in Satellite Meteorology (VLab), and other partners and providers

  • Increase outreach to better determine user needs
  • Outreach to participate as providers and in

governance – Coordination Group

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GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) Short Term Initiatives

  • Increase ability to use GNC-A in disaster response

including relevant Disaster Charter products

  • Schedule formal test with the Disaster Charter and

an Authorized User from Central America

  • Work to add WMO Region III/IV Requirements

leaving room to support GEO societal benefit areas

– GOES-R imagery data and products planned

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GOES-R/JPSS Product Coordination

  • GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager Products

– CMI Imagery, 5 bands, Full Resolution (1 Km visible channel 2 vice .5 kM, Full Disk – 23 level II baseline products – Geostationary Lightning Mapper – Maybe?

  • Working with partners to decide on GLM offering
  • Products derived from SNPP/JPSS imagery

– Evaluating at this time

  • Products from other sources
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GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) Long-Term Goals

  • Facilitate interoperability of data resources to

facilitate re-use at global or regional scales

  • Engage stakeholders to address global & regional

challenges

  • Develop cooperation with Academic Institutions to

foster product development and training expertise.

  • Foster regional cooperation to build capacity
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GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) Long-Term Goals

  • Strengthen relationship between GEO & member

countries through building & reinforcement of regional GEO networks.

  • Provide products via GNC-A to support all SBAs
  • AmeriGEOSS concentrations: Agriculture, Disaster Risk

Reduction, Water and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Monitoring

  • Cross-cutting communities of weather and water
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GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) Governance - Coordination Group

  • GNC-A Coordination Group open to all Partners,

Providers, Users

  • Meetings via Webex with VOIP quarterly
  • Committees membership from Brazil, Argentina,

Barbados, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S.

– Broadcast Mgmt, Content, Users, Receive Stations – Committees meet on their own schedule

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GNC-A – Resources

  • Home Page: http://geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov/
  • Contact Email: gnc.americas@noaa.gov
  • Product Request Form:

–http://geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov/GNC- A%20Product%20Request%20and%20Submission%20Form

  • Publications including the product list

–http://geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov/other-publications.html

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GNC-A – Coordination

  • Google Groups:
  • gnc.americas@noaa.gov
  • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gnc-a-forum
  • GNC-A Coordination Group and Committees

–Broadcast: Diego Souza , Paul Seymour –Receive Stations: Diego Souza, Rosario Alfaro, Paul Seymour –User Committee; Content Sub-committee:

  • Eric Madsen (NESDIS IIA GNC-A and GNC contact)

–User Committee: Users Sub-committee:

  • Bernie Connell, Humberto Barbosa, Luiz Machado
  • This is the committee that can make things happen
  • We need this group of users to be active
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GNC-A - Contacts and Links

  • Eric Madsen - Eric.Madsen@noaa.gov

– NESDIS International and Interagency Affairs

  • Martin Medina - Martin.Medina@noaa.gov

– NESDIS International and Interagency Affairs

  • Paul Seymour - Paul.Seymour@noaa.gov

– NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations

  • Diego Souza - diego.souza@cptec.inpe.br

– INPE / CPTEC / DSA

  • www.geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov
  • GEONETCast Americas Forum (by invitation)