Products and Software

The next PSWG meeting

The ITSC-25 interim Products and Software Working Group meeting will be held on:

Saturday 10 May 2025

Potential topics for discussion

1. Welcome, agree on agenda
2. Open recommendations from previous meeting
3. Items from the CGMS High Level Priority Plan
   • AI considerations when developing satellite software and best practices
4. Plan of agencies and software provides related to new and future satellite instruments
5. Needs and concerns of direct broadcast users
6. Status and plans of software packages for processing sounder data (CSPP, AAPP etc)
7. Cloud services and cloud data distribution

Scope of PSWG

The scope of the Products and Software Working Group is as follows:

• Focus on both Level 1 and Level 2 satellite data and products
• Software tools and packages for generating, analyzing, and visualizing products
• Enabling users to obtain or generate the products they need
• End user feedback
• Information exchange for validation of products;
• Informing the user community about requirements for future missions; and
• Informing agencies about users’ requirement

Documents and Resources

PSWG Reports

• ITSC-24 (March 2023)
• ITSC-23 (June 2021)
• ITSC-22 (Nov 2019)
• ITSC-21 (Dec 2017)
• ITSC-20 (Oct 2015)
• ITSC-19 (Mar 2014)

and Interim meetings:

• post ITSC-24 interim meeting (July 2024)
• post ITSC-23 interim meeting (March 2022)

Technical Notes and Information

• Directory of software packages and tools: for Direct Broadcast, L1, L2 processing, visualization and analysis
• AAPP, OPS-LRS, and Metopizer containerized build and run instructions for DBNet operators

Lessons Learned in GeoSphere Development:

• Software Containerization (offsite link to Uni. Wisconsin)
• Deploying software Using Cloud-Friendly Technologies (offsite link to Uni. Wisconsin)