Future Plans
If users would like to see specific functionality added to AAPP, please contact the Help Desk to submit your suggestions.
Planned developments include:
Metop-A/B/C
Continued support for the instruments on Metop, up to the end of life of Metop-C (i.e. late 2020s or beyond).
JPSS-2 (NOAA-21)
The payload is similar to NOAA-20 but the satellite is new, so there may be differences in the data.
FY-3E
Support for MWTS-2, MWHS-2 and HIRAS on FY-3E, scheduled for launch in 2021.
Metop-SG
Pre-processing for MWS, IASI-NG and METimage instruments on Metop-SG-A1, scheduled for launch in late 2023. See the following documents:
Design proposals for EPS-SG pre-processing in AAPP and MWIPP (June 2021)
AAPP v9 Top Level Design (May 2022)
AAPP v9 Product Specification (May 2022)
Technical report: Adapting the AAPP microwave tests for EPS-SG (May 2022)
Technical report: Adapting the AAPP microwave tests for EPS-SG: part 2 – surface tests (Aug 2022)
Note that for direct broadcast the conversion from raw to level 1b will not be part of AAPP, it will be performed by seperate software to be procured by EUMETSAT and distributed by the NWP SAF.