The FIRSTT program is administered by the National Weather Service Office of Meteorology. The goals of FIRSTT are to provide education and training on Integrated Remote Sensing Technologies (WSR-88D, GOES, POES, Profilers, NLDN, ACARS, and emerging technologies) and to evaluate, adapt, learn to integrate, and facilitate the rapid transfer of these technologies from research into operations through programs such as CSTAR.

• Understand the sampling of GOES and NEXRAD systems
• Suggest best merging and combined display (eg, VIS5D)
• Determination of storm top and equilibrium level
• Explore signatures to predict decay of MCS's
• Describe near storm environment from GOES sounder (stability, PW)
• Estimate rainfall with multispectral algorithms
• Evaluate information content of multisensor and model data