WIFIRE and NESDIS User Engagement: Leveraging NOAA's Pathfinder Initiative to Develop Future Tools, Products and Services for Wildfire

WIFIRE and NESDIS User Engagement: Leveraging NOAA's Pathfinder Initiative to Develop Future Tools, Products and Services for Wildfire

WIFIRE and NESDIS User Engagement: Leveraging NOAA's Pathfinder Initiative to Develop Future Tools, Products and Services for Wildfire

WIFIRE Lab, from the University of California, San Diego, is among the first Pathfinders supporting the next generation of geostationary observations, GeoXO. NOAA plans for the Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GeoXO) Program to follow the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series and Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) missions in the 2030-2050 timeframe. This presentation will focus on the NOAA’s Pathfinder, WIFIRE lab, who supported the development of the synthetic data and exercise scenario as part of the predevelopment user engagement with GeoXO. We will present findings from the Fire TableTop Exercise. Information from this tabletop exercise is being used to inform NOAA’s Fire Program through efforts of the User Engagement Fire Coordination, Missions Scientists and NESDIS Offices responsible for the development of forte products and services. The fire information is coordinated through the NOAA Fire Program and shared with the fire communities of practice. This talk will also provide highlights to the NOAA Fire Program, the NOAA Pathfinder Initiative and be an opportunity to expand the fire community of practice for the NESDIS User Engagement Council.

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