Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Orbital Fleet

  • Released Monday, December 5th, 2011
  • Updated Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 12:01AM
  • ID: 3891

GPM will be an international fleet of satellites that provide global observations of rain and snow. Based on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), GPM will consist of a core spacecraft that includes radar and radiometers that will provide reference standards to unify the other observations made by the rest of the fleet. More information on GPMis available.

This visualization is the first of three designed to illustrate some aspects of the GPM mission. This one shows the GPM spacecraft fleet orbiting the Earth. This version is capable of being shown on a hyperwall that is a set of tiled displays.

The center 3x3 hyperwall tiles from the GPM fleet assembled and reduced to play on laptops and desktops

Fully assembeled 5x3 hyperwall show of GPM fleet (includes all tiles)

The large animation above is diced-up into smaller tiles that can be played on the hyperwall. Each tile is named according to a standard spreadsheet convention with a1 at the upper left and e3 at the lower right. This image illustrates this naming convention used in the diced-up frame sets below. For 3x3 hyperwalls, the convention is a1 to c3.

The large animation above is diced-up into smaller tiles that can be played on the hyperwall. Each tile is named according to a standard spreadsheet convention with a1 at the upper left and e3 at the lower right. This image illustrates this naming convention used in the diced-up frame sets below. For 3x3 hyperwalls, the convention is a1 to c3.

Hyperwall tile a1

Hyperwall tile a2

Hyperwall tile a3

Hyperwall tile b1

Hyperwall tile b2

Hyperwall tile b3

Hyperwall tile c1

Hyperwall tile c2

Hyperwall tile c3

Hyperwall tile d1

Hyperwall tile d2

Hyperwall tile d3

Hyperwall tile e1

Hyperwall tile e2

Hyperwall tile e3

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Missions

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Datasets used in this visualization

Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

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GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere (A.K.A. GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere)
Model NASA GMAO

The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.

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