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Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPP and NPOESS Meteorological Satellites
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Researchers studying the issues surrounding global climate change have a particular need for the kind of repetitive, long-term, high-quality measurements that can be provided from the vantage point of space. Operational weather satellites provide perhaps the only means for securing these measurements. The next generation of operational sensing systems is currently being designed, and the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), scheduled for launch beginning in 2009, is an important component of this operational monitoring system. NPOESS is being developed with the goal of meeting the converged operational data needs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Defense (DOD), as well as some of the data needs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth observation programs.
In a joint mission to facilitate the transition of appropriate "research" satellite measurements into the operational domain, NASA and the NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO) are developing the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP). NASA and NOAA are supporting the NPP as part of a program of risk reduction demonstration and validation for NPOESS sensors, algorithms, and processing. The NPP satellite, scheduled for launch in 2005, will include critical sensors that are planned for flights on NPOESS. In addition, the NPP mission is expected to provide an early test of space and ground segments for NPOESS.
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