Status Report: GOES-R

October 2016 - April 2017

Mike Schmidt, Jeff Weber, Tom Yoksas

Activities Since the Last Status Report

This is a new status report.

Ongoing Activities

We plan to continue the following activities:

• Ingest the GOES ReBroadcast (GRB) from GOES-16 in real-time on the new 4.5 m satellite dish that we installed on the eastern most (UNAM) pad at the NCAR Mesa Lab using the NOAA funded UW/SSEC/CIMSS Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) for Geostationary Data (GEO) package

• The UNAM pad was used since it can support satellite dishes of a much greater size than needed and because of existing conduit from the pad into the Mesa Lab that leads to a UCAR Network Engineering and Telecommunications Section (NETS) closet in which the receiver for the GRB (Quorum GRB-200) is housed.
• CSPP GEO is responsible for GRB ingest and productization (e.g., stitching together of broadcast tiles)

• Copy all ABI imagery, Space Weather products, Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) and Level 2 products to one or more S3 buckets in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Transfer of ABI imagery and space weather products has been active since the first day of GRB broadcast using storage resources provided free-of-charge by Amazon

• Continue working with NCAR/EOL to support their CSPP GEO installation at the NCAR Mesa Lab

• This installation will provide an in-house redundancy for GOES-16 ingest

• Work with NCAR/RAL to provide GOES-16 data for their science objectives
• Reach out to other NCAR labs to promote use of GOES-16 data
• Reach out the greater Unidata community to learn about their GOES-16 data needs
• Investigate additions to the IDD CONDUIT data stream that would be useful for creation of new GOES-16 based Level 2 products

Future Activities

• Serve GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) imagery via McIDAS ADDE and the TDS
• Create an LDM feed of ABI imagery for distribution within NCAR/UCAR

• Due to its sheer volume, we are not planning on distributing GOES-16 imagery, Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), space weather or Level 2 products in the IDD

• Investigate implementing UW/SSEC’s “fanout server” (redistribution of the GRB-200 UDP unicast stream over TCP) via an Linux Virtual Server (LVS) cluster

• This would provide high availability for the GRB-200 output which could then provide real-time GRB input for sites other than UCAR

• Investigate approaches that would insulate GRB ingestion from long standing twice per year power downs in the NCAR Mesa Lab facility
• Unidata-Wisconsin (UNIWISC) IDD imagery will be revamped using GOES-16 data
• Pursue funding to install GOES-S ingest and data serving capabilities

Relevant Metrics

• Lots O Data!

 We are currently receiving and saving on the order of 500 GB per day and a variety of products including Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) and Level 2 products are not yet being broadcast!

Questions for Committee Members

• What new coverages would should be added to the UNIWISC feed?
• What kind(s) of data access methods are desired?
• Other?

Strategic Focus Areas

We support the following goals described in Unidata Strategic Plan:

1. Enable widespread, efficient access to geoscience data
   Standing up ADDE and TDS data services for real-time GOES-R/S data will benefit the greater Unidata community.

2. Develop and provide open-source tools for effective use of geoscience data
   The IDD is powered by the Unidata LDM-6 which is made freely available to all. The Unidata NOAAPort ingest package is being used by a variety of university and non-university community members. Both the LDM and NOAAPort ingest packages have been bundled by Raytheon in AWIPS.

3. Provide cyberinfrastructure leadership in data discovery, access, and use
   The community-driven IDDs provide push data services to users an ever increasing community of global educators and researchers.
   
4. Build, support, and advocate for the diverse geoscience community
   Providing access to data in real-time is a fundamental Unidata activity.

Prepared  April 5, 2017