NOAA – Center for Satellite Applications and Research
Connecting Environmental Satellite Data to NOAA's Mission
STAR provides value not only to the United States scientific and forecasting communities but the world at large. Over the decade's scientists at STAR (and the precursor) have developed satellite meteorology and oceanography products and services that have advanced weather forecasting, improved forecasting accuracy, ocean predictions, helped with coastal management and protection of fisheries. STAR products are an integral part of the scientific community and essential to NOAA and its partners around the world. STAR is also a steward of the taxpayer's resources by ensuring that multi-billion assets that provide the observations are meeting performance requirements and through algorithm and calibration changes, mitigating impacts of failures and anomalies.