2011 NOAA Direct Readout Conference
The 2011 NOAA Direct Readout Conference was held 4-8 April 2010 in Miami, FL. There was strong international participation, with 29 countries represented. Tim Schmit was a program committee member, abstract committee chair, session co-chair, presenter, and subject matter expert during the break-out session on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) transition issues.
The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) had a booth where Jordan Gerth, Liam Gumley and Kathleen Strabala exhibited products supporting Aqua and Terra Direct Broadcast. Along with promoting the use of the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS) data, live demonstrations of some of the new International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP) software releases were shown at the SSEC booth, including the IMAPP Virtual Appliance, a complete, free, level 0 to level 2 processing system for Aqua and Terra that can be installed and run on Linux, MacIntosh and Windows operating systems.
Jordan Gerth and Dave Santek demonstrate data and products created using software distributed as part of the International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP).
