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Tackling Global Food Security With the Help of LEO Satellite Vegetation Health Products
The USDA uses the Vegetation Health Index (VHI) generated with VIIRS data to enhance crop monitoring and analysis.
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Announcement
NOAA Works with Industry to Determine Natural Language Processing Capabilities with the NCCF Open Knowledge Mesh
On Sept. 13, NOAA awarded Knowledge Mesh/Natural Language Processing (KM/NLP) contracts with a cumulative value of $5.4 million to four companies.
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Announcement
NOAA Awards Two Commercial Microwave Sounder Pilot Contracts
On September 17, 2024, NOAA awarded contracts totaling $4,266,400 to purchase Microwave Sounder (MWS) data from two commercial satellite companies in support of new Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) studies.
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Earth from Orbit
NOAA Debuts First Imagery from GOES-19
On Sept. 18, 2024, NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from its GOES-19 satellite. The satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument recently captured stunning views of Earth. 
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Announcement
NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Develop Lightning Mapper for NOAA
NASA, on behalf of NOAA, has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.
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Earth from Orbit
Hurricane Francine Slams Northern Gulf Coast
NOAA satellites have been closely tracking Tropical Storm Francine since it formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico over the weekend. Initially designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Six on Sept. 8, 2024, it strengthened into a tropical storm…
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Announcement
NOAA Awards 4th Delivery Order Under Radio Occultation Data Buy II
On September 4, 2024, the NOAA Commercial Data Program awarded its fourth Delivery Orders under the Radio Occultation Data Buy II (RODB-2) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.
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Satellite Snapshots
NOAA-20 Monitors Typhoon Yagi in the South China Sea
On Sept. 4, 2024, the VIIRS instrument on board NOAA’s JPSS Program satellites captured this True Color imagery of Typhoon Yagi in the South China Sea.
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