Multiple-Platform/Sensor Real-Time Sounding and Cloud Retrieval Through Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP)

The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) was developed in 2011 with its first release in 2012 (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/cspp/history.shtml). Since then, as of January 2022, over 70 new and updated releases of software packages to process the satellite direct broadcast raw data into sensor data records (SDRs) and produce various Environmental Data Records (EDRs). CSPP supports the Direct Broadcast (DB) meteorological and environmental satellite community through the packaging and distribution of open-source science software when possible. CSPP supports DB users of both polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite data processing and regional real-time applications through the distribution of free open source software and training in local product applications. So far comprehensive multiple sensors (A VHRR, MODIS, AIRS, AMSU, VIIRS, CrIS, ATMS, IASI, MHS, ABI, and AHI) onboard multiple international satellite platforms (NOAA-17, NOAA-20, S-NPP, Terra, Aqua, METOP-A/B, GOES 16/17, and Himawari-8) are making global visible, infrared, and microwave imaging and sounding spectral measurements and producing environment products (composite color images, cloud property, aerosol, dust, fire, flood, drought, temperature/water vapor profile, total precipitable water, precipitation, trace gases, ocean/land surface property, and many others).