Program
CSPP Users’ Group Meeting 2025 Program
Preliminary Agenda (PDF)
Updated 29 January 2025
| 1 April 2025 Tuesday | |||||
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration | ||||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome Remarks and Logistics Introductions | CSPP Team | UW-Madison | ||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Keynote: Utilization of Satellite Imagery to “Tell the Story” in Weather and Natural Hazard Communication | William Aydlett | NOAA/NWS/ WFO Guam | ||
| Session: Global Direct Broadcast Applications | |||||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | The History and Value of Direct Broadcast in the Pacific Region | Eric Lau | Pacific Region Headquarters NWS, USA | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break (Including Group Photo) | ||||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Status of the Current and Future NOAA GOES Programs | Andy Heidinger | NOAA GeoXO Program Scientist | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Direct Broad Capabilities For NOAA’s Low Earth Orbit Observation Missions | Satya Kalluri | NOAA LEO Program Scientist | ||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:00 – 13:20 | CSPP GEO and LEO at the National Laboratory for Earth Observation (LANOT) | Alejandro Aguilar Sierra | LANOT UNAM, Mexico | ||
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Utilisation of CSPP at the Meteorological Service of Singapore and Development of an Operational, Regional Burnt Area Mapping Tool | Efthymia Pavlidou | Meteorological Service of Singapore | ||
| 13:40 – 14:00 | CSPP Utilization for Real-Time Satellite Data Processing at the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management National Research Institute (IMGW) in Poland | Tobiasz Górecki | IMGW, Poland | ||
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Utilization of the CSPP Module at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) | Shibin Balakrishnan | India Meteorological Department | ||
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Direct Readout Activity and Himawari Operation at the Meteorological Satellite Center of the Japan Meteorological Agency | Toshiyuki Kitajima | Japan Meteorological Agency | ||
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Progress of CSPP Applications in China | Yanan Liu | East China Normal University | ||
| 15:00 – 15:40 | Break | ||||
| 15:40 – 16:00 | EUMETSAT Advanced Retransmission Service | Nicholas Coyne | EUMETSAT | ||
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Rainfall Breaks in Senegal Using Satellite Data | Bouya Diop | Université Gaston Berger de Oral Saint Louis, Senegal | ||
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Using CSPP for Low Latency Severe Weather and Aviation Contrail Cirrus Forecasts | William Smith, Sr. | SSEC/Hampton University | ||
| 16:40 – 17:00 | CSPP LEO in Alaska: Supporting the Forecasts of Today and Tomorrow | Jennifer Delamere | GINA/University of Alaska Fairbanks | ||
| 17:30 – 19:30 | Ice Breaker | ||||
| 02 April 2025 Wednesday | |||||
| Session: CSPP LEO and Geo Software | |||||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites: Recent Updates and Future Plans | Liam Gumley | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | CSPP Geo Status and Plans | Graeme Martin | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Ask the Experts | CSPP Team | |||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | ||||
| Session: NOAA Direct Broadcast Directives | |||||
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Current State of NOAA NESDIS Direct Readout Satellite Services (2025) | Toby Hutchings | NOAA Direct Readout Program Manager | ||
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Direct Broadcast from NOAA’s Low-Earth Orbit satellites | John Evans | NOAA Data Operations Manager: LEO Satellites | ||
| 11:40 – 12:00 | NOAA LEO Products Updates for CSPP Users | Lihang Zhou | NOAA LEO Satellite Product Manager | ||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:00 – 13:20 | NOAA Algorithm Scientific Software Integration and System Transition Team (ASSISTT) Collaboration with CSPP Geo and Leo on L2 Product Software | Michael Butler | NOAA ASSISTT | ||
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Operational Ingest/Visualization of CSPP-processed data in AWIPS | Eric Jacobsen | Pacific Region Headquarters, NWS, USA | ||
| Session: Emerging Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) | |||||
| 13:40 – 14:00 | CSPP Innovation with AI/ML | Allen Huang | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Machine Learning for Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval Using Chinese Geostationary Imagers | Xiangao Xia | IAP, Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
| 14:20 – 15:20 | Poster Session including 1-minute Introductions Break | ||||
| Session: Emerging Technologies: Low and Ultra Low Latency | |||||
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Ultra Low Latency | Steve Dutcher | SSEC | ||
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Low Latency Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Products | Joe Taylor | SSEC | ||
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Introducing Dexter, a Fast Modern and Versatile Downlink Decoding Solution | Bruce Flynn | SSEC | ||
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Cloud-based System for Delivering Low Latency LEO data for SatCORPS Global Cloud Composite and Global VIIRS Fire and Flood Detections | Louis Nguyen | NASA Langley Research Center | ||
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Low-Latency Satellite Data Products to Help Reduce Aviation Effects on Climate | William Smith, Jr. | NASA Langley Research Center | ||
| 17:30 – ?? | Social Event | ||||
| 03 April 2025 Thursday | |||||
| Session: General Applications | |||||
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Microwave Sounder Limb Adjustments for AMSU, ATMS and new Microwave Smallsats | Mitch Goldberg | The City College of New York | ||
| 9:20 – 9:40 | Land Surface Phenology Monitoring from BRDF-adjustment of GOES-R ABI time series and VIIRS Observations | Xiaoyang Zhang | South Dakota State University | ||
| 9:40 – 10:00 | Near Real Time Active Fires and Flood Detection Level-2 Products Via Direct Broadcast Using the Community Satellite Processing Package | Geoff Cureton | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 10:00 – 10:20 | A Practical Introduction To Using CSPP Geo LightningCast For Lightning Prediction | Levi Pfantz | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Break | ||||
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Training Using Imagery Created with CSPP Software | Scott Lindstrom | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Ancillary Data Services for IPOPP and Simulcast | Jeremy Jacobsohn | NASA | ||
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Support for Post-Fire Risk Assessment with Dynamically Composited Multi-Sensor Burn Scar Maps | Sam Batzli | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| Session: The Direct Broadcast Network (DBNet) | |||||
| 13:00 – 13:20 | DBNet Data Reception, Processing, and Plans of India National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) | Srinivas Desamsetti | NCMRWF, India | ||
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Impact of Assimilating the Indian DBNet Radiances in a High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) System at NCMRWF | Hari Prasad Kottu | NCMRWF, India | ||
| 13:40 – 14:00 | CSPP Polar2Grid and Geo2Grid: Facilitating the Creation of High Quality Satellite Imagery | Kathleen Strabala | SSEC/CIMSS | ||
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Advanced Techniques for Direct Broadcast Data Processing Topics: • Tips and tricks for creating imagery with Polar2Grid and Geo2Grid • Running DB software packages (CSPP, AAPP, FY3DB) in container-based cloud environments • Adapting IPOPP-based DB processing workflows to CSPP • Optimizing DB processing hardware and workflows | CSPP Team | |||
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break | ||||
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Advanced Techniques for Direct Broadcast Data Processing Continued | CSPP Team | |||
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Meeting Conclusion | ||||
Posters
| P1: CSPP in Early Warning Systems for Forest Fires in Mexico | Martin Cuahutle | Freelance Consultant |
| P2: Joint Retrieval of PM2.5 Concentration and Aerosol Optical Depth over China Using Multi-Task Learning on FY-4A AGRI | Xuehua Fan | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| P3: PSAS: Providing LEO DB products to NWS Pacific Region | Douglas Schumacher | SSEC/CIMSS |
| P4: CSPP VIIRS Enterprise Packages: Simple Production of Atmosphere, Cryosphere and Land Products. | Scott Mindock | SSEC/CIMSS |
| P5: Mapping VIIRS Radiance Cluster Data to CrIS Granules | Matthew Odle | SSEC/CIMSS |
| P6: Fusion Correction Method for Numerical Weather Forecast Based on LGU-Net | Kun-peng Wu | Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. |
| P7: Short-Term Wind Speed Prediction Based on Relaxed Lasso-ConvLSTM | Lu Wang | Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. |
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