Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

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Defense MeteorologicalSatellite Program

• PolarMax19 October 2004

Col John Wagner DMSP System Program Director
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Defense Meteorological Satellite ProgramSystem
Program Office (SMC/WX)

• Mission
• Provide timely and accurate worldwide
  environmental data to DoD and national program
  users
• Be the DoDs premiere provider of worldwide
  terrestrial and space environmental data

Col John Wagner System Program Director
DMSP Imagery Afghanistan 27 Nov01
Monitor solar activity and the
space environment
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SMC/WX Portfolio
Receive Set Satellite
Space Weather Analysis and Forecast System (SWAFS)
MARK IVB
DMSP Satellite
Space Environmental Support System
Calibration/Validation
Technology Transition
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SPO and Customers
6SOPS 55thSWX Schriever AFB, CO
Det 11 (SMC/WXD) Peterson AFB, CO
SEC Boulder, CO AFSPC Peterson AFB, CO
AFWA Offutt AFB, NE
AFMC WP AFB, OH
AFRL, ESC Hanscom AFB, MA
FNMOC Monterey, CA
APL Laurel, MD
PITF VAFB, CA
NPOESS IPOSilver Springs, MD
NOAA SOCC Suitland, MD
NASA GODDARD Washington D.C.
SMC/WX LAAFB, CA
NRL Washington D.C.
DMSP SPO User User/Operator NPOESS IPO Labs
SPAWAR San Diego, CA
AFRL Albuquerque, NM
CNMOC Bay St Louis, MS
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SMC/WX Organization Chart
WX
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program System
Program Director -- Col John Wagner Deputy
Director -- GS-15 Janice Smith Executive Officer
Capt Melissa Bookman Mgmt Assist -- GS-07 Mary
Smith
Chief Engineer Mr John Bohlson
WXD
WXK
WXP
Space Systems Support GS-14 Don Orr
Contracting GS-15 Lawrence Clark
Program Control GS-14 Gregory Schiller
WXT
WXX
WXS
Management Operations/Logistics GS-13 Sally
Petersen
Satellite Systems LtCol Steve Skotte
Technology Applications GS-14 Kevin Scro
Aerospace Corporation Support Principal Director
Dr Patrick Mak Satellite System Engineering
Mr Tony Salvaggio Sensor System Engineering Mr
Don Boucher Adv Environmental Applications Mr
John Bohlson
Systems Engineering and TechnicalAssistance
(SETA) Support Contractors MTC/AMCOMP Northrop
Grumman IT Tecelote, MCR, IDS
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DMSP Operational Constellation (Sun Synch --
Local Time Ascending Node)
000L
F15, 2105 LTAN
F16, 2007 LTAN
F14, 1912 LTAN
F13, 1829 LTAN
1800L
0000L
F12, 1719 LTAN
Primary
Back-Up
LTAN Local Time of Ascending
Node _at_ Launch
1200L Toward Sun
As of Date Oct 04
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DMSP Launch Schedule
As of Oct 04
Planned Launch Dates F17 Aug 05 F18 Oct
07 F19 May 09 F20 Oct 11
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DMSP On-orbit Ops Community
DMSP System Program Office
Technical Assistance
Aerospace Co.
User Community
Air Force Weather Agency Offutt AFB, NE
Suitland Satellite Operational Control Center
(SOCC)
Fleet Numerical Meteorological Oceanography
Center Monterey, CA
Environmental Satellite Operations Control
Center (ESOC)
Tactical Terminals Worldwide
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Contractors
DMSP System Program Office
Northrop Grumman Baltimore Sensor Prime
Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale Vandenberg
AFB Spacecraft Prime
Northrop Grumman Azusa
Honeywell, Inc MIMU / MXU
Naval Research Lab Washington DC
NASA Goddard
SAFT France Batteries
University of Texas Dallas
Air Force Research Lab
Sandia National Lab Albuquerque, NM
Amptek
Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab
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F17 Sensor Suite
Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)
Special Sensor Ionospheric Electron
Scintillation (SSIES-3)
Special Sensor Electron/Ion Spectrometer (SSJ5)
Special Sensor Magnetometer (SSM)
Operational Linescan System (OLS)
Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager
(SSUSI)
Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI)
New
Heritage
Modified
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SSMIS Microwave Imager Sounder

• Provides high priority sounding measurements
• Temperature Soundings (up to 60 kilometers)
• Water Vapor Soundings
• also
• Sea Surface Winds
• Ice (age and concentration)
• Snow cover
• Surface type
• Precipitation
• Cloud Water
• Soil moisture

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SSULI Overview

• Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager
• Produced by NRL
• Provides continuous measurement of UV radiation
  down to 80 nm in FUV/EUV
• Profiles the ionosphere and upper atmosphere for
  space weather forecasting
• Measures EDPs, NDPs, atmospheric temperature
  and composition

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SSUSI Overview

• SSUSI Special Sensor Ultra-violet Spectrographic
  Imager
• Produced by JHU/APL
• Remotely senses iono-spheric, atmospheric, and
  auroral parameters
• FUV spectrographic observations of the airglow
  and aurora and visible light photometric
  measurements of the aurora and nightglow
• Derived information
• EDPs, NDPs, Auroral Energy Deposition Oval
  Location

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DMSP New Sensor Cal/Val

• First flight of space weather remote sensors
  (SSULI/SSUSI) on DMSP/F16
• Optical sensors operating in the far/extreme UV
• Measure upper atmospheric airglow
• Infer space environment parameters for AFWA
  models
• First Flight for the Special Sensor Microwave
  Imager/Sounder (SSMIS)
• Combines the functionality of the heritage
  sensors
• Provides very high resolution temperature, water
  vapor, and surface property data to the users
• First time temperature profiling to 80 km
• Cal/Val Program Objective Establish Sensor
  Products Ready for Operational Use
• Verify instrument performance
• Calibrate instruments
• Validate accuracy of current algorithms with
  ground truth
• Identify/fix significant algorithm problem areas
• Recommend long term algorithm improvements

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Space Weather Analysis Forecast System

• SWAFS is a software model resident on AFWA
  weather systems infrastructure that processes
  data inputs from various Space Weather data bases
  
• GUI interface between forecasters and space
  weather software models/algorithms
• Products are distributed in either a push (toward
  customer) or pull (customer obtains product from
  a website) environment
• Supports DoD, NASA, NORAD, USAF, USA, USN, USMC
  NOAA, and National Programs

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Space Systems Support (WXD)
Ionospheric Measuring System (IMS)
Mark IVB Terminal
Digital Ionospheric Sounding System (DISS)
Small Tactical Terminal
SRS Semi Bi-Cone SRS Solar Tracking Antennas
Solar Observing Optical Network (SOON)
RIMS 28, 8, 3 Antennas
Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN) Solar Radio
Spectrograph (SRS) Radio Interference Measurement
System (RIMS)
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SMC/WX Technology Transition

Environmental Space Situational Awareness
Projects WXT
Risk Reduction Tech Transition Activities
Aerospace Omaha
Future
Satellite Data Numerical Weather Prediction
Research Aerospace LA
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Summary

• DMSP has proven to be a valuable asset in
  supporting military and civil operations on the
  land, at sea, in space, and in the air.
• DMSP leads the way in tactical support from space
• Recent Personal experience in Iraq
• Aviation
• Ground Operations
• Intelligence
• DMSP data also supports the civil community
• Tropical storm intensity
• Snow and ice analysis
• Damage assessment
• On track to launch F-17 in the summer of 2005.

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Supported Capabilities

• Intelligence
• DMSP has only on-orbit nighttime visual
  intelligence gathering capability
• Images show increase in Kirkuk Oil Field
  operations during and after combat ops

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Supported Capabilities

• Command Control
• DMSP image of sand storm
• Force Protection (sand/dust storms)

Sand and Dust Source Region
Sand and Dust Storm
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DMSP Operations ImpactAFWA Satellite
Applications Branch

• Tropical Cyclones
• AFWA augments and provides backup to the Joint
  Typhoon Warning Center for the tropical cyclone
  analysis mission
• DMSP is critical for resource protection

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DMSP Operations Impact

• National Ice Center
• High impact critical data source for Navy,
  NOAA, Coast Guard, and commercial navigation

Ross Sea Icebergs as seen by OLS