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GOES-T Launch Success
1 March 2022 -
NOAA’s GOES-T, the third in a series of four advanced geostationary
weather satellites, blasted into orbit aboard a United Launch
Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket at 4:38 p.m. EST on March 1 from
NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
GOES-T will become operational as GOES West and track
destructive wildfires, lightning, Pacific Ocean-based storms,
dense fog, and other hazards that threaten the U.S. West Coast,
Hawaii and Alaska. It will also monitor solar activity and
space weather to provide early warnings of disruptions to
power grids, communications and navigation systems.
STAR teammates contributed to this launch's success and will
be involved in the post-launch testing, ongoing cal/val work and operational
implementation of the satellite and its data.
ABI Blended 'High Wind Event' Imagery Composite
STAR Shines at AMS 2022
18 February 2022 -
STAR sends a full complement of presenters to the AMS Conference
every year, and STAR’s tradition of participation continued
at the 2022 conference. AMS 2022: “Environmental Security:
weather, water and climate for a more secure world” ran
from 23-27 January as a 100% virtual conference
due to concerns about Omicron. AMS 2022 featured an
eye-popping 638 sessions, 2,454 talks, and 976 posters.
The STAR Science Seminar Series has published a set of
one-page summaries from STAR and CIMSS AMS contributors
including 43 talks and 8 posters. There were nearly 100
STAR contributors to these talks and posters, which is
30% of STAR’s entire staff roster! Topics included
restoring satellite instruments to full use after
anomalies, product improvements in precipitation,
rainfall, snow measurement, sea ice, and winds; AI
applications in data assimilation; detection of
blowing dust from imagery; new user training activities;
even the creation of a GOES image displaying the plumes
of gas & heat from rockets. The breadth of STAR AMS
contributions is impressive, and we thank all the contributors!
 STAR 2021 Annual Report
17 December 2021 -
STAR published their 2021 Annual Report this week.
This report highlights the variety of our work - hurricane predictions,
ocean temperatures, launching new satellites, restoring old satellites,
artificial intelligence, volcanoes, drought - STAR's work touches
every part of NOAA's remote sensing missions.
 Shobha Kondragunta’s Banner Year
29 October 2021 -
STAR's Shobha Kondragunta's timely work on COVID-driven emissions changes,
which included 9 research articles, a website, an article
in AGU's EOS and print media coverage, has earned a bumper crop
of awards and recognition, including:
- DOC Administrator's Award
- Two NOAA Bronze Medals
- the 2021 NESDIS Collaboration Award
- Read more
GOES-17 ABI Captures Hunga-Tonga Eruption
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18 January 2022 -
At 4:10 UTC on 15 January 2022, the Hunga-Tonga Volcano in the South Pacific erupted.
The eruption occurred about 40 miles north of Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa on Tongatapu,
the country's main island. Tonga consists of 170 islands scattered over about 700,000
sq km. The archipelago is located east of Australia and northeast of New Zealand.
About 100,000 people live in Tonga, the bulk of them on Tongatapu Island.
The underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption caused waves
over 3' to crash into Tonga. Local authorities have confirmed at least one
death and communications are crippled due to damage to fiber optic cables,
making it difficult to establish the scale of damage. A magnitude 4.0
earthquake accompanied the eruption.
The GOES-17 ABI captured images of the eruption, as seen in this video.
The initial dust cloud from the eruption spanned more than 400 miles wide.
Tsunami watches were issued to Pacific coastal areas by the National Weather
Service, with surf observed to be several feet above expected levels in
the Pacific Northwest.
16 May 2022 - This year’s CoRP Science Symposium
will be held in person from July 25 to 27 at the Cooperative Institute for
Research in the Atmosphere of Colorado State University located in Fort
Collins, CO. The Symposium brings together members from the NOAA and
academic community to discuss the latest developments in satellite
remote sensing research and applications, targeting multidisciplinary
research with a focus on early-career scientists. The Symposium is
part of a larger strategy to promote federal and academic partnerships
and collaborations.
This year's event will focus on building stronger connections
between NOAA's Cooperative Institutes and Cooperative Science
Center faculty and students to promote a more diverse NOAA
workforce in the future, with an emphasis on CI-affiliated students,
postdocs, and junior scientists as conduits for collaboration.
- Registration is now closed as the event has reached capacity; check the
conference web site
for updates.
Latest STAR Publications
Updated: Fri, 22 Jul 2022
- Title:
- Exploring VIIRS Night Light Long-Term Time Series with CNN/SI for Urban Change Detection and Aerosol Monitoring
- Authors:
- Cao CY, Zhang B, Xia F and Bai Y
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(13)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14133126
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- Optimizing the Assimilation of the GOES-16/-17 Atmospheric Motion Vectors in the Hurricane Weather Forecasting (HWRF) Model
- Authors:
- Lim AHN, Nebuda SE, Jung JA, Daniels JM, Bailey A, Bresky W, Bi L and Mehra A
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(13)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14133068
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- Bayesian Deep Learning for Passive Microwave Precipitation Type Detection
- Authors:
- Orescanin M, Petkovic V, Powell SW, Marsh BR and Heslin SC
- Journal:
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 19:1-5.
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2021.3090743
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- Arctic Sea-Ice Surface Elevation Distribution from NASA's Operation IceBridge ATM Data
- Authors:
- Yi DH, Egido A, Smith WHF, Connor L, Buchhaupt C and Zhang DX
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(13)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14133011
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- Development and evaluation of the Aerosol Forecast Member in the National Center for Environment Prediction (NCEP)'s Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS-Aerosols v1)
- Authors:
- Zhang L, Montuoro R, McKeen SA, Baker B, Bhattacharjee PS, Grell GA, Henderson J, Pan L, Frost GJ, et al.
- Journal:
- Geoscientific Model Development 15(13):5337-5369.
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-15-5337-2022
- Date:
- Jul 2022
View all of STAR's latest research articles.
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