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The Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) is the science arm of the NOAA Satellite and Information Service (NESDIS), which acquires and manages the nation's operational Earth-observing satellites. STAR's mission is to accelerate the transfer of satellite observations of land, atmosphere, ocean, and climate from scientific research and development into routine operations, enabling NOAA to offer state-of-the-art data, products, and services to decision-makers.

GOES-16 First Light Image, all 16 bands Brad Pierce, NOAA Administrators Award MODIS image of Atmospheric Gravity Waves over the Atlantic Ocean

STAR Scientists Produce First Light Image From GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager

2 February 2017 - The ABI Imagery Team lead by STAR produced the First Light Images which were released to the press on 23 January 2017. This 16-panel image shows the continental United States in the two visible, four near-infrared, and 10 infrared channels on ABI. These channels enable us to distinguish among clouds, water vapor, smoke, ice and volcanic ash. GOES-16 has three times more spectral channels than earlier generations of GOES satellites. Read more.

Brad Pierce Receives the Prestigious NOAA Administrators Award

15 November 2016 - Brad Pierce from the Advanced Satellite Products Branch received the prestigious 2016 NOAA Administrators award at a ceremony that was held on 15 November 2016 in Silver Spring, MD. He received the award "For providing robust, real-time, simulated data of next generation geostationary satellite images, reducing risk in post-launch operations". STAR congratulates Brad for his excellent work.

Atmospheric Gravity Waves over the Atlantic Ocean

3 October 2016 - On April 27, 2016, a striking true-color image acquired by MODIS NASA's Aqua satellite showed several groups of very well structured arc cloud patterns, indicating atmospheric gravity waves, aligned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa, extending over 2,000 km. The unique feature of this observation is that the scale of the atmospheric gravity waves are an order of a magnitude larger than previously reported in the literature. The August issue of Acta Oceanologica Sinica featured this image on its cover, which was submitted by STAR's Xiaofeng Li and several co-authors. Read more.

2016 Gold Medal Award Winners -
Tom Smith and Ken Pryor

2016 DOC Gold Medal Award Winners Thomas M. Smith (CoRP / SCSB) and Ken Pryor (SMCD / OPDB)
27 September 2016 - STAR's Tom Smith (CoRP / SCSB) and Ken Pryor (SMCD / OPDB) were honored today with Dept. of Commerce Gold Medal awards for Scientific and Engineering Achievement. The highest honor award of the DOC, the Gold Medal has been presented since 1949 by the Secretary of Commerce for distinguished performance.


2016 CICS Science Conference Archive


STAR Scientists and the NASA IceBridge Mission:
Underflying Sentinel-3A's Track for Cal/Val

photo: CICS' Thomas Newman on the IceBridge 2016 team

21 April 2016 - The NOAA Hurricane Hunter "Miss Piggy" and the NASA Operation IceBridge team arrived on site at Thule Air Base, Greenland on Monday 4-18, and quickly departed for the first science mission of the season Tuesday morning, 19 April 2016. Using a suite of remote sensing instrumentation, the aircraft surveyed shore-fast ice at Ellesmere Island, Canada. NOAA/STAR and CICS scientists are participating in the NASA Operation IceBridge Spring 2016 mission, including today's attempt to underfly the Sentinel-3A satellite, a cal/val flight which the NOAA-LSA team proposed. read more.

Latest STAR Publications

Updated: Thu, 09 Feb 2017

Title:
Ocean Upwelling Along the Yellow Sea Coast of China Revealed by Satellite Observations and Numerical Simulation
Authors:
Bao SW, Li XF, Shen DL, Yang ZZ, Pietrafesa LJ and Zheng WZ
Journal:
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 55(1):526-536.
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2016.2610761
Date:
Jan 2017
Title:
A Salient Region Detection and Pattern Matching-Based Algorithm for Center Detection of a Partially Covered Tropical Cyclone in a SAR Image
Authors:
Jin SH, Wang S, Li XF, Jiao LC, Zhang JA and Shen DL
Journal:
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 55(1):280-291.
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2016.2605766
Date:
Jan 2017
Title:
Sea Fetch Observed by Synthetic Aperture Radar
Authors:
Li XF, Zheng WZ, Yang XF and Pietrafesa LJ
Journal:
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 55(1):272-279.
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2016.2605670
Date:
Jan 2017
Title:
The Convective Transport Of Active Species In The Tropics (Contrast) Experiment
Authors:
Pan LL, Atlas EL, Salawitch RJ, Honomichl SB, Bresch JF, Randel WJ, Apel EC, Hornbrook RS, Weinheimer AJ, et al.
Journal:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98(1):106-+.
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-14-00272.1
Date:
Jan 2017
Title:
Improved scheme for Cross-track Infrared Sounder geolocation assessment and optimization
Authors:
Wang L, Zhang B, Tremblay D and Han Y
Journal:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122(1):519-536.
DOI: 10.1002/2016jd025812
Date:
Jan 2017

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