The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, or NESDIS, recently made the first major move in an ambitious undertaking to migrate much of its ground systems to cloud computing.
In March, a portion of the Joint Polar Satellite System’s operational data processing ground system, which captures crucial data about Earth, made the shift.
JPSS encompasses America’s most advanced series of polar-orbiting environmental satellites, according to NOAA, and this transition notably lessened the program’s hardware footprint.
“Being first in the organization of NOAA to make such a major change of doing business that’s not trivial,” NESDIS Chief Information Officer Irene Parker told
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