Current development of community satellite processing package (CSPP) to support direct broadcast remote sensing satellite data processing

Abstract

The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) is developed by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin to support Direct Broadcast (DB) communities in processing various remote sensing satellite data. Currently, there are eleven satellites and 25 instruments supported by fifteen CSPP packages. Some packages have dependency with another package when an output of a package become an input to another package. However, there is no document that describes relationships among input and output data of the packages. Each package is only accompanied by its installation instruction and user manual. Thus, a main document describing interdependency of the packages is required. This paper can act as the main document because it describes the current development of the CSPP packages and their interdependency among one another. Information was gathered through installation, user manual and literature (proceedings and journal articles) reviews. The results are illustrated in term of intuitive diagrams that are not available in the current instructions or manuals. Thus, the main document that is described in this paper can be utilized to identify gaps that should be taken into considerations when developing the existing system in the future.