Telecommunications equipment provider Harris and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have developed and successfully deployed a new tool that is designed to help track and report errors in critical weather satellite information.
The product anomaly, ticket, relationship, organisation and notification (PATRON) tool was designed for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series (GOES-R) ground segment, which is currently under development.
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However, it has been implemented to support other environmental satellites that are currently in operation.
PATRON is a trouble reporting and tracking system for satellite weather products manufactured by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s office of satellite products and operations (OSPO).
Anomalies are any abnormal occurrences in the process of receiving instrument data from the satellite, processing and formatting the data into usable weather products, and distributing the weather products to end-users.
PATRON features a relational database that contains the definitions of all NOAA satellites, onboard instruments, ground system computers, products generated from the data of each instrument, and the subject matter experts related to each product.
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By GlobalDataIt integrates the database records, which allows users to analyse the impacts of product-related anomalies across the entire system.
Harris Government Communications Systems environmental systems product line vice president Romy Olaisen said PATRON enhanced the capabilities and reliability of the former system, enabling NOAA to significantly improve its anomaly reporting and tracking.
"The PATRON database now provides an enterprise-wide view of anomalies and their impacts," Olaisen added.
Using a four-month, agile development approach, the PATRON was developed collaboratively by Harris, the GOES-R ground segment prime contractor, the GOES-R ground segment project data operations support team, and the OSPO/satellite products and services division.
PATRON is an early release of the anomaly reporting and tracking tool that will be delivered with the GOES-R ground segment in 2015.
Image: The GOES N satellite during its lift-off on a Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US. Photo: courtesy of Nasa.
