The combined GOES-R and JPSS virtual short course will focus on exercises that allow participants to access, process, and display GOES-R and JPSS data and products. The participants will receive instruction from satellite subject matter experts on how to use the products to analyze specific environmental scenarios such as severe convection, tropical storms, flooding, fire weather, air quality, and more.

March 17 and 18, 2021 at 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time (Virtual)

Registration close date:	EXTENDED: Monday, March 15, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Participant cap:	100

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THIS COURSE

Registration rates:

$32 for student members
$64 for members
$104 for non-members

Registration policy:

AMS requires a valid payment to be made within 5 days of the start of a course or sooner if registration has reached capacity. You will be contacted by AMS staff if payment is required. Refunds will not be issued to attendees within 7 days of the start of a course.

Course Description:

The combined GOES-R and JPSS short course will focus on exercises that allow participants to access, process and display GOES-R and JPSS data and products. The participants will receive instruction from satellite subject matter experts on how to use the products to analyze specific environmental scenarios such as severe convection, tropical storms, flooding, fire weather, air quality, etc.

The course will include hands-on exercises to train participants on the use of tools such as:

• NESDIS JSTAR mapper
• CIMSS RealEarth
• CIRA’s Satellite Loop Interactive Data Explorer in Realtime (SLIDER) 
• ERDDAP

Additional exercises will teach participants how to: 

• Construct and use multispectral imagery, including red-green-blue (RGBs), and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) products to display and easily identify important features within satellite imagery
• How to download, read, process, and display satellite data using Python

The two-day short course will conclude with a GeoCollaborate demonstration.

Additional information for the GeoCollaborate demonstration: 

"California Burning: Putting Federal Data to Work as a Strategic Asset"

GeoCollaborate was used to deliver multiple federal agency data in response to the August Wildfire complex in California in August 2020 in support of the CA National Guard and the CA Civil Air Patrol (CAP). NOAA HRRR smoke model data, JPSS and GOES satellite data, FAA Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR), USFS NIFC Fire Perimeter, CA NG Damage Assessment Imaging Task Orders were shared in a trusted secure environment so the CA CAP could swoop in when the smoke was clearing to acquire damage assessment images. This just in time capability was delivered through the JPSS Fire & Smoke Initiative. StormCenter is funded under JPSS Fire & Smoke and River Ice & Flooding Initiatives to deliver NOAA data into decision making environments.

Instructors:

Mitch Goldberg
NOAA/NESDIS, Chief Scientist

Andy Heidinger
GEO Senior Scientist

Satya Kalluri
JPSS Program Office, Lanham, MD

Thomas Atkins
STAR, College Park, MD

William Straka
CIMSS/University of Wisconsin – Madison

Curtis Seaman
CIRA, Fort Collins, CO

Cara Wilson
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division (SWFSC/ERD), La Jolla, CA

Joseph Patton
CISESS, College Park, MD

Bill Line
STAR, Fort Collins, CO

Amy Huff
Senior Research Scientist, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

Dave Jones
President and CEO of StormCenter Communications, Halethorpe, MD