Topic: NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR
Channel 3A / 3B Switching Deactivation over Alaska Region
Date/Time Issued: May 10, 2018 1750Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR
data over Alaska Region
Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 14, 2018 00:02:51Z
Date/Time of Expected End: Seasonally
(Ongoing)
Length of Outage: See
details below; roughly 4 months
Details/Specifics
of Change: NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product
Operations (OSPO) engineers will deactivate switching for
NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR Channel 3A / 3B for the period of May
14, 2018 to September 15, 2018. Switching to Channel 3A will
not occur during this period over the predefined box
encompassing the Alaska Region (box coordinates 50M-0N to 75M-0N and
173M-0E to 135M-0W). NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR will remain Channel
3B (3.7 microns) to support fire detection and monitoring
activities over Alaska Region.
Last
NOAA-15 contact 15 F 4027 May 14, 2018 134/19:24:50 134/19:32:31 461
Last NOAA-19 contact
19 F 47749 May 14, 2018 134/23:54:10 134/23:59:03 293
Channel switching will stop after
May 14, 2018 for the beginning of fire season.
The coordination for the
activation and deactivation of switching for NOAA-15 and NOAA-19
AVHRR Channel 3A / 3B is a collaborative effort between NESDIS
OSPO, National Weather Service (NWS) Alaska Region, University
of Alaska - Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA), and
the NWS Fire Weather Service Manager and is intended to
seasonally optimize the Fire Weather and Cryosphere observing
posture for Alaska.
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