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photo: NOAA-21 First Light ImagesNOAA-21 First Light Images
The STAR VIIRS SDR team has produced first light imagery from the VIIRS visible bands. The image shows true color imagery from December 5. The VIIRS visible/near infrared bands were the second instrument to be activated, with the VIIRS thermal bands, CRIS, and OMPS to follow in February.

16 March 2023 - The STAR JPSS SDR teams have released first light imagery for four of its advanced instruments - VIIRS, CRIS, ATMS, and OMPS, aboard NOAA-21. NOAA-21, which is the third satellite in the JPSS series, was launched on November 21, 2022. It will provide continuity for weather forecasters and the broader environmental monitoring community.

The release of this imagery marked a significant milestone for NOAA-21 and for the scientific community as a whole. The data collected by these instruments will be used to advance our understanding of the Earth's environment and inform policy decisions on issues such as climate change and natural resource management. With this groundbreaking technology at their fingertips, scientists and researchers around the world are poised to make new discoveries and advance our understanding of the world around us.

 


STAR Leads at OSOS-3

3rd International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium

10 November 2022 - The Call for Abstracts and Registration for the Third International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium (OSOS-3) are now open! OSOS-3 will be held June 12-16, 2023, Busan South Korea. NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and EUMETSAT are excited to welcome Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency (KHOA) as co-host of this third meeting in the series (prior meetings in 2019 and 2021). Derek Manzello and Heather Roman-Stork will represent NOAA as meeting co-chairs. This meeting is an endorsed United Nations Ocean Decade event.


Meet Spotlighted Space Professionals!

Meet Spotlighted Space Professionals!

4 October 2022 - Too often students – and even educators – associate having a space career with just being an astronaut or rocket scientist. But we know there is a whole universe of jobs related to space that encompass fields such as science, engineering, technical trades, communications and media relations, and more.

The White House's National Space Council wants to change that and called upon Federal agencies to help educators expose their students to the multitude of space careers across the federal government and the wide diversity of professionals in those roles.

At NOAA, our mission is to understand and predict our changing environment from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, as well as manage and conserve America’s coastal and marine resources. To do this, we collect, archive, and study information not just from the ground and in the air, but from satellites in space. Information collected from NOAA’s environmental satellites supports products and services used across the country every day that promote and protect our security, economy, environment, and quality of life.

Space missions, satellite programs, and scientific research require a large team of people with a variety of skills. We spoke with a few people here at NOAA, featuring STAR's very own Alexis Wolfe (Chief of Staff) and Paige Lavin (Oceanographer), about their space-related careers and the advice they’d give to young people reaching for the stars.



Latest STAR Publications

Updated: Tue, 16 Mar 2023

Title:
Evaluating the Value of CrIS Shortwave-Infrared Channels in Atmospheric-Sounding Retrievals
Authors:
Barnet CD, Smith N, Ide K, Garrett K and Jones E
Journal:
Remote Sensing 15(3)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15030547
Date:
Feb 2023
Title:
Ice Sheet and Sea Ice Ultrawideband Microwave radiometric Airborne eXperiment (ISSIUMAX) in Antarctica: first results from Terra Nova Bay
Authors:
Brogioni M, Andrews MJ, Urbini S, Jezek KC, Johnson JT, Leduc-Leballeur M, Macelloni G, Ackley SF, Bringer A, et al.
Journal:
Cryosphere 17(1):255-278.
DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-255-2023
Date:
Jan 2023
Title:
Modeling and estimation of snow depth spatial correlation structure from observations over North America
Authors:
Kongoli C and Smith TM
Journal:
Frontiers in Earth Science 11
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.1035339
Date:
Jan 2023
Title:
A Microphysics-Scheme-Consistent Snow Optical Parameterization for the Community Radiative Transfer Model
Authors:
Ren T, Yang P, Garrett K, Ma YT, Ding JC and Coy J
Journal:
Monthly Weather Review 151(2):383-402.
DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-22-0145.1
Date:
Feb 2023
Title:
MESI: A Multiparameter Eddy Significance Index
Authors:
Roman-Stork HL, Byrne DA and Leuliette EW
Journal:
Earth and Space Science 10(2)
DOI: 10.1029/2022ea002583
Date:
Feb 2023
Title:
Assessment and Correction of View Angle Dependent Radiometric Modulation due to Polarization for the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS)
Authors:
Taylor JK, Revercomb HE, Tobin DC, Knuteson RO, Loveless ML, Malloy R, Suwinski L, Iturbide-Sanchez F, Chen Y, et al.
Journal:
Remote Sensing 15(3)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15030718
Date:
Feb 2023
Title:
Observed Atmospheric Features for the 2022 Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption from Joint Polar Satellite System Science Data Products
Authors:
Zhou LH, Yan BH, Sun NH, Huang JF, Liu QH, Grassotti C, Lee YK, Straka W, Niu JG, et al.
Journal:
Atmosphere 14(2)
DOI: 10.3390/atmos14020263
Date:
Feb 2023

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