STAR Affiliate Organizations
The Environmental Visualization Program offers enhanced NOAA
Imagery, and NOAA Imagery fused with other environmental data sets
or modeled output. It specializes in creating Multi-Dimensional
Imagery from both polar orbiting and geostationary satellites,
operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The NOAA National Calibration Center (NCC), established under the
Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), facilitates
improved accuracy of NOAA's weather, climate, and ocean models through
sharing of technical practices for fine tuning remotely-sensed data from
environmental satellites among different programs and agencies. The
NCC's mission is to provide common standards and methodology for the
user community as well as encourage communication though a centralized
Calibration Knowledge Base.
A multi-agency research center, co-
located with STAR, created to improve the use of satellite data in
models for analyzing and predicting the weather, the ocean, the climate
or the environment. JCSDA's mission is to accelerate and improve the
quantitative use of research and operational satellite data in weather,
ocean, climate and environmental analysis and prediction systems.
CoastWatch processes oceanographic satellite data, and
makes it available to Federal, State, & local marine scientists, coastal
resource managers, and the general public.
NOAA has partnered with other agencies to support
sound science and management to preserve, sustain and restore valuable
coral reef ecosystems.
The primary goal of GSICS is to improve the use of space-based global
observations for weather, climate and environmental applications through
operational inter-calibration of the space component of the WMO World
Weather Watch (WWW) Global Observing System (GOS) and Global Earth
Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).