Air Force lab to demo SBIRS data app that could supplement weather capability

By Courtney Albon / August 31, 2017 at 2:02 PM
An Air Force lab focused on partnering with industry and academia to better exploit remote sensing data plans to demonstrate an experiment that could allow the service to use information from the Space-Based Infrared System to supplement weather satellite capability. The experiment, which was awarded through the Tools, Applications and Processing Laboratory's first call for proposals last year, is considering how the service could use SBIRS data to contribute to the cloud characterization function performed by its weather satellites, according...

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