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Fifty-three Data Handling Systems by 23 Functionalities

  • Access - 32
  • Analysis - 23
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  • Assimilation - 19
  • Browse Images - 10
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  • Command and Control - 1
  • Communications - 20
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  • Data Discovery - 16
  • Data Processing - 29
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  • Dissemination - 29
  • Downlink and Telemetry - 8
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  • Ingest - 24
  • Mapping and Map Service - 15
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  • Metadata Management - 4
  • Preservation/Archive - 20
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  • Monitoring - 19
  • Modeling - 16
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  • Product Generation - 28
  • Quality Control - 22
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  • Reprocessing - 11
  • Search and Rescue - 1
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  • Services - 18
  • Visualization - 22
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    Access Functionality: 32 Systems

  • Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network
  • AWIPS
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  • Coastal Change Analysis Program
  • Coastal Ecosystem Data Access and Delivery System
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  • CLASS
  • Environmental Satellite Processing System
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  • Fisheries National Information Management Services
  • FisheSurveyData-varied
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  • Geodetic Support System CORS
  • Hydrometeorological Automated Data System
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  • Integrated Coral Observing Network
  • Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive
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  • Integrated Surface Data Processing Center
  • International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
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  • Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System
  • National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway
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  • Nautical Charting Service
  • NCEP Central Computing System
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  • NESDIS GEOphysical Data System
  • NeXT Generation Weather Radar
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  • NMFS - West Coast Regional Information Management System
  • Northeast Fisheries Data and Information Management System
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  • NWS-NCEP Space Weather Operations
  • OAR Airborne Ozone Lidar Data System
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  • Pacific Islands Regional Information Management System
  • PORTS and NWLON
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  • Real-time Weather Data Product Dissemination System
  • Tropospheric Chemistry Data Management System
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  • Water, Weather, Nutrients Data Repository
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    NOAA Information Management Systems by Goal

    Weather & Water

  • Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
  • National Weather Service Telecommunication Gateway (NWSTG)
  • NCEP Space Weather Operations (3210) (NCEP-SWO)
  • NCEP Central Computing System (CCS)
  • Real-time weather data product dissemination system (NWWS)
  • All Hazards Warning Collection System (HazCollect)
  • Ocean Data Quality Analysis and Management (NODQAM)
  • Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS)
  • Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD Archive)
  • Airborne Ozone Lidar Data System
  • High Performance Computing System (HPCS)
  • Centralized Automated Data Acquisition System (CADAS)
  • Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination system (LDAD)
  • Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System (MDCRS-ARINC)
  • NOHRSC-National Snow Analyses
  • Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network (AIRMoN)
  • Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
  • NOAA Weather Radio Network/CRS

    • Commerce & Transportation

  • Geodetic Support System, Continuously Operating Reference Stations (GSS)
  • Nautical Charting System (NCS)
  • National Geophysical Data Center Data & Information Management System (NGDC &IMS)
  • Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System & National Water Level Observation Network (PORTS & NWLON) Major Application
  • GEOphysical DAta System (GEODAS)
  • Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR)

    • Climate

  • NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS)
  • Comprehensive Large Array Stewardship System (CLASS)
  • International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
  • Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (old CARDS) (IGRA)
  • Integrated Surface Data Processing System (ISD)
  • Tropospheric Chemistry Data Management System
  • Surface Energy Budget Network (SEBN)
  • USGODAE Argo Global Data Assembly Center (GDAC)

    • Mission Support

  • Environmental Satellite Processing Center (ESPC)
  • Okeanos Information Management System
  • NPOESS Interface Data Processor Segment (IDPS)
  • SARSAT
  • Satellite Operations Control Center and Command and Data Acquisition (SOCC/CDA)

    • Ecosystems

  • Northeast Fisheries Data and Information Management System (NE-FDIMS)
  • National Marine Sanctuaries System Wide Monitoring (SWIM-IMS)
  • Water, Weather, Nutrients Data Repository (WWNDR)
  • Alaska Fisheries Information Systems Network (AFISN)
  • NMFS-West Coast Regional Information Management System (WC-RIMS)
  • National Oceanographic Data Center's Data and Information Management System (NODC IMS)
  • Coastal Ecosystem Data Access and Delivery Services (CEDADS)
  • Pacific Islands Regional Information Management System (PIRIMS)
  • Fisheries National Information Management System (FNMS)
  • Integrated Coral Observing Network (ICON)
  • Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP IMS)
  • Coral Reef Information System (CORIS)
  • Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Data and Information Management System (GM-FDIMS)
  • South Atlantic Fisheries Data and Information Management System (SA-FDIMS)
  • Caribbean Fisheries Data and Information Management System (C-FDIMS)
  • Fish Survey Data-varied


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