The effects of any budget/program decisions made since the information was collected during 1997-98 are NOT reflected in the National Security Space Road Map (NSSRM).

(U) GEOSTORMS

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Overview (U):

(U) GEOSTORMS is a joint program effort by NOAA, the USAF, possibly other federal agencies, and commercial customers to acquire solar wind observations, which provide alerts of geomagnetic storms. Currently, solar wind observations are cooperatively supplied from two NASA research missions: WIND and the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE).

Description (U):

(U) To improve the warning lead time of geomagnetic storms, NOAA will establish a Rapid Prototyping Platform and perform studies of data available from NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) in an L1 orbit. The Rapid Prototyping Platforms are a vehicle to objectively examine competing methodologies for developing new forecast products, while the studies of ACE data are to validate the low cost smallsat approach to GEOSTORMS. The U. S. Air Force endorses these activities and is attempting to strengthen their participation in the SEL program.

(U) NOAA is attempting to significantly improve short-term warning and forecast products and services for a broad spectrum of environmental events, including tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and geomagnetic storms by the year 2002.

User Impact (U):

(U) To be supplied.

Programmatics (U):

(U) Concept/Technology.

(U) IOC: 10/2003 (1QFY2004).

(U) Organizations and Funding:

(U) NOAA.
(U) Air Force.

Images (U):

(U) None.

Related Initiatives (U):

Name Title

Solar Mass Ejection Imager Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI)

Solar Wind Satellite Solar Wind Satellite

SWIMER Solar Wind Interplanetary Magnetic Field Monitor and Energy Particle Real-time (SWIMER)

Wind LIDAR ATD Wind Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) ATD

This Table Is Unclassified.

This Table Is Unclassified.
Name	Title
Solar Mass Ejection Imager	Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI)
Solar Wind Satellite	Solar Wind Satellite
SWIMER	Solar Wind Interplanetary Magnetic Field Monitor and Energy Particle Real-time (SWIMER)
Wind LIDAR ATD	Wind Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) ATD

Related Requirements (U): None.

Related Categories (U):

Name Title

Space-Based Sensors Space Based Sensors

This Table Is Unclassified.

This Table Is Unclassified.
Name	Title
Space-Based Sensors	Space Based Sensors

Road Map Placements (U):

Name Title

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SPACE FORCE ENHANCEMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

This Table Is Unclassified.

This Table Is Unclassified.
Name	Title
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING	SPACE FORCE ENHANCEMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Requirements, Funding and Additional Hotlinks (U):

(U) None.

Lead Office (U):

NOAA.

Point of Contact (U):

(U) National Security Space Road Map Team, NSSA, Open Phone: (703) 808-6040, DSN 898-6040.

Date Of Information (U):

(U) 21 November 1997

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(U) For comments/suggestions contact: Office of the National Security Space Architect (NSSA), 571-432-1300.

(U) Road Map Production Date: 23 June 2001