JPSS Instruments

Science Benefits Through Advanced Instrument Technologies

JPSS will provide operational continuity of satellite-based observations and products for NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) and the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) mission. The first JPSS spacecraft, JPSS-1, will take advantage of technologies developed through the NOAA POES and NASA NPOESS Preparatory Program (NPP) satellite which will Launch in October 2011. Just a few of the many benefits JPSS will produce on a daily basis include early warning of hazardous weather conditions, enhanced weather prediction capabilities to enable advanced planning by government and industry for extreme weather events, and real-time storm tracking to provide airline pilots with the most current and accurate weather information available to ensure the safety of their passengers and crew.

“ NASA and NOAA should develop an immediate plan to address the loss of continuity of critical climate measurements. The most significant losses for climate include the microwave imager, Earth radiation budget measurements, total solar irradiance, and the loss of stratospheric measurement capability.

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-NRC Decadal Survey, 2007

JPSS
Instruments

JPSS Instrument	Measurement	NOAA Heritage	NASA Heritage
ATMS	ATMS and CrIS together provide profiles of atmospheric temperature, moisture, and pressure	AMSU	AMSU
CrIS		HIRS	AIRS
VIIRS	Provides daily high-resolution imagery and radiometry across the visible to long-wave infrared spectrum	AVHRR	MODIS
OMPS	Spectrometers with UV and IR bands for ozone total column measurements	SBUV-2	OMI
CERES	Scanning radiometer which supports studies of Earth Radiation Budget		CERES