Proving Ground
The GOES-R proving ground provides for testing and validating ideas, technologies and products before they are integrated into operational use. Implementation of a National Weather Service (NWS) proving ground for GOES-R ensures that all changes, either technological or procedural, undergo rigorous integrated testing before implementation. The proving ground concept allows developers at CIMSS to be involved at an early stage in product development with forecasters, providing the opportunity for interaction between developers and users. The Proving Ground will include two levels of interaction, local and distributed. For the local level CIMSS will build on close relationships already established with the NWS Forecast Offices at Milwaukee/ Sullivan, LaCrosse and Green Bay Wisconsin. In the GOES-R Proving Ground, developers and forecasters will test, apply and evaluate algorithms for new GOES-R satellite data and products using proxy and simulated data sets, including MODIS, AIRS, IASI, SEVIRI, NAST-I, NPP/VIIRS/CrIS, and computer simulated products.