Community Satellite Processing Package from Direct Broadcast: Providing real-time Satellite Data to every corner of the world

Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and its Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) have supported the international Direct Broadcast/Readout (DB/DR) user community since 1985 through the distribution of the International TOVS and ATOVS Processing Packages (ITPP, IAPP) for NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES), and since 2000 via the International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP) for NASA Terra and Aqua. Since 2007, SSEC/CIMSS has also participated in the development of regional versions of software for generating Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) and Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) Sensor Data Records (SDRs), and for Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) atmosphere and cloud Environmental Data Records (EDRs). Currently SSEC/CIMSS is supported by the NOAA JPSS program scientist and NASA to continue facilitating the use of polar orbiter satellite data through the initial development of a newly conceived Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) that will support the Suomi-NPP/JPSS and, subsequently, build up over time to support GOES-R with CSPP Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) component, as well as other international polar orbiting and geostationary meteorological and environmental satellites and their regional user communities.