SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Notice of Intent to Negotiate Sole Source for Monitoring the long-term SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS radiance and aerosol record - RFQ
- Notice Date
- 8/23/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- 1333MD18QNEED0072
- Archive Date
- 9/22/2018
- Point of Contact
- MICHELLE BREBNOR, Phone: 301-713-4739
- E-Mail Address
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MICHELLE.BREBNOR@NOAA.GOV
(MICHELLE.BREBNOR@NOAA.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sole Source Information Introduction and Background The overall goal of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellite Proving Ground (PG) program is to ensure that the user community is ready for GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R) and JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) products immediately after launch. Air Quality Proving Ground (AQPG) is one the PGs that is tasked to prepare the user community for using aerosol products in air quality applications. The goals of this study are to demonstrate identified NOAA-20 and Suomi National Polar Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) surrogate air quality related products in near real-time so the air quality user community can use, get familiar with, test, and evaluate the products and provide constructive feedback to algorithm/product developers on the value and needed changes to products for increased utility. Specific Tasks Continue monitoring the long-term SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS radiance and aerosol record at 6 monitoring sites. Since launch, the VIIRS aerosol team has been calculating and archiving statistics of VIIRS band reflectances, aerosol products and some diagnostics at 6 locations, scattered globally. Each of the 6 sites is associated with an AERONET stations although not all AERONET stations have full records during the time period. Similarly constructed statistics of MODIS parameters have also been archived at these sites. After four plus years of acquiring these time series, we took a serious look at some of the long-term sites. The initial purpose was to gauge the possibility of long-term calibration drift. Initial conclusion is that VIIRS has not exhibited calibration drift over the 4 years, but MODIS has, slightly. However, VIIRS does show unexplained spikes in specific channels in some of the time series. There is no apparent glitch when viewing images of the data on those days with spikes. The STAR aerosol team will add NOAA-20 data to the existing system as soon as they become available from NESDIS operations. The task will be to continue monitoring these sites for drifts and anomalies into the 5th and 6th years of acquisition. The plan will be to do a cursory pass through all sites on a monthly basis and issue a verbal report to the VIIRS team. In addition a more complete analysis will be done after an additional year of data has been acquired, to once again evaluate the total time series for calibration drifts and other anomalies. Science User Outreach. With five years of SNPP aerosol record and newly launched NOAA-20 data coming online, it is time to aggressively pursue the science users in using the data in aerosol assimilation and other atmospheric process studies. There will be an outreach through NASA AEROSAT/AEROCOM activities to work with science users in using VIIRS aerosol products in scientific studies and communicate the findings through open peer reviewed publications. Through this task, the team will also develop a series of webinars to educate different user communities about the quality, availability, and access of VIIRS aerosol products. Staffing This project requires part-time support of a scientist with a Ph.D in atmospheric science and experience working in air quality and the use of satellite data in air quality applications. The Ph.D scientist should be a US citizen with good communication (written and oral) skills. Knowledge of web based tools to conduct webinars and develop video tutorials is required. Deliverables • A series of webinars on VIIRS aerosol products to diverse audience including science and operational users • A peer reviewed publication on VIIRS aerosol products Period of Performance The period of performance is from October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 5830 University Research CT, 2600, College Park, Maryland, 20740, United States
- Zip Code: 20740
- Zip Code: 20740
- Record
- SN05054117-W 20180825/180823231903-06763e920e6b80b7fa9065fdcaeb08d6 (fbodaily.com)
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