Commerce and Transportation (C&T) Introduction and Overview

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Commerce and Transportation (CT)Introduction
and Overview

• Presented by
• Pablo Clemente-Colón

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Commerce Transportation Goal Research Areas

• Commerce and Transportation Goal (Enhance
  national economic performance through the
  development and use of an efficient, safe,
  secure, and environmentally sound U.S.
  transportation system).
• Explore, develop and transition emerging
  technologies and techniques to enhance marine
  navigational safety and efficiency
• Provide accurate, timely, and integrated weather
  information to meet air and surface
  transportation needs
• Improve accuracy of positioning capabilities to
  realize national economic, safety, and
  environmental benefits
• Develop the information and tools to make
  reliable decisions in preparedness, response,
  damage assessment, and restoration

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Commerce TransportationPriority Research
Activities

• Explore, Develop and Transition Emerging
  Technologies and Techniques to Enhance Marine
  Navigational Safety and Efficiency
• Continue research, development, and systems
  integration as required for remote sensing
  technologies including exploiting new and
  improved sensors and sensor systems to improve
  the safety and efficiency of navigational
  services provided by NOAA
• Test and evaluate oceanographic and marine
  meteorological sensors and systems to improve the
  quality, responsiveness, and value of individual
  sensors or integrated sensor systems to customer
  requirements
• Develop and evaluate state-of-the-art
  hydrographic and ocean mapping technologies and
  applications
• Continue to investigate new products and services
  including delivery mechanisms such as GIS
• Continue efforts in the technology of data
  visualization, particularly in the development of
  new and unconstrained paradigms in electronic
  navigational charting
• Develop technology and software whose use would
  result in increased efficiency, cost savings,
  and/or accuracy will be transitioned to
  operational use
• Satellite Altimetry and the NOAA / Navy / NGA /
  GEBCO Global Bathymetry Project (Walter H. F.
  Smith)
• Sea Ice Charting for Safe Navigation (Pablo
  Clemente-Colón) ?
• The Role of Satellite Ocean Surface Vector Wind
  (OSVW) Information in
• Mitigating Risk to Maritime Transportation (Paul
  S. Chang) ?
• Error Analysis of the Altimetric Bathymetry Model
  used by GEBCO and Google Earth (Karen Marks)
• National Ice Center (Pablo Clemente-Colon) ?

• Oral Presentation
• Poster Presentation
• Operational / Prediction

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Commerce TransportationPriority Research
Activities

• Provide Accurate, Timely, and Integrated Weather
  Information to Meet Air and Surface
  Transportation Needs
• Research and develop needs for real-time weather
  data collection for local effects such as fog,
  blowing and drifting snow, ice, high winds,
  thunderstorms, and other hazardous weather
  conditions can impact travel conditions with very
  short notice in order to provide accurate and
  timely information to meet air and surface
  transportation needs
• Research on advancing the sensing and prediction
  of atmospheric and space processes that
  contribute to global weather impacts on the
  aeronautics enterprise
• Implement emerging products and create innovative
  ways of incorporating them into the forecast
  process
• Transition research weather-observation
  prototypes into full operational use
• Downburst Potential Monitoring (Ken Pryor)
• A Cloud Object Based Volcanic Ash Detection
  Technique (Michael J. Pavolonis) ?
• Real-time Monitoring of Volcanic Ash from Mt
  Redoubt (using Principal
• Component Imagery) (Donald W. Hillger)
• Development of a visibility retrieval for the
  GOES-R Advanced Baseline
• Imager (Robert B. Pierce)

• Oral Presentation
• Poster Presentation
• Operational / Prediction

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Commerce TransportationPriority Research
Activities

• Develop the Information and Tools to Make
  Reliable Decisions in Preparedness, Response,
  Damage Assessment, and Restoration
• Develop preparedness and response actions that
  reduce the risks of spills and minimize the
  impact on commerce, communities, and the
  environment when spills do occur
• Research to improve our basic understanding of
  coastal and marine spills and, most importantly,
  advances our capacity for responding to spills in
  a manner that minimizes the impacts to
  biological, economic, social, and cultural
  resources
• Develop an integrated and effective research
  strategy to improve modeling, detection, and
  monitoring capabilities for submerged oil
• Research and improve risk assessment and response
  to oil-in-ice (on, under, and within ice) in the
  Arctic environment refining methods for modeling
  and monitoring dispersed oil/chemical plumes
• Hurricane Hazard Response with Synthetic Aperture
  Radar Imagery (William G. Pichel)
• GhostNet - At Sea Marine Debris Detection and
  Tracking (William G Pichel, X.iaofeng Li, and
  Christopher Jackson)
• Emerging Activity - Renewable Energy
• Wind and Solar Energy Estimation and Forecasting
  (Fuzhong Weng) ?
• GOES Solar Radiation Products in Support of
  Renewable Energy (Istvan Laszlo)

• Oral Presentation
• Poster Presentation
• Operational / Prediction

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Commerce TransportationPresentations

• Marine Transportation
• Satellite Altimetry and the NOAA / Navy / NGA /
  GEBCO Global Bathymetry Project (Walter H. F.
  Smith)
• Sea Ice Charting for Safe Navigation (Pablo
  Clemente-Colón) ?
• The Role of Satellite Ocean Surface Vector Wind
  (OSVW) Information in Mitigating Risk to Maritime
  Transportation (Paul S. Chang) ?
• Error Analysis of the Altimetric Bathymetry Model
  used by GEBCO and Google Earth (Karen Marks)
• National Ice Center (Pablo Clemente-Colón) ?
• Air and Surface Transportation
• Downburst Potential Monitoring (Ken Pryor)
• A Cloud Object Based Volcanic Ash Detection
  Technique (Michael J. Pavolonis) ?
• Real-time Monitoring of Volcanic Ash from Mt
  Redoubt (using Principal Component Imagery)
  (Donald W. Hillger)
• Development of a visibility retrieval for the
  GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (Robert B.
  Pierce)
• Pollution Monitoring and Response
• Hurricane Hazard Response with Synthetic Aperture
  Radar Imagery (William G. Pichel)
• GhostNet - At Sea Marine Debris Detection and
  Tracking (William G Pichel, Xiaofeng Li, and
  Christopher Jackson)
• Renewable Energy

• Oral Presentation
• Poster Presentation
• Operational / Prediction