MODIS Instrument Operations Team

Purpose

The purpose of the MODIS Instrument Operations Team (IOT) is to plan, schedule, and monitor MODIS activities.

Planning

Operational Activities (OAs) have been designed to meet all MODIS science requirements. Descriptions of these OAs can be found in the MODIS Operations Concept Document (OCD).

MCST provides a Terra Overflight and Aqua Overflight tool. Those tools allow for caculating surface viewing times and angles for each of the respective satellites.

Scheduling

The MODIS Instrument Operations Team schedules a daily set of Operational Activities using the Instrument Support Toolkit (IST) software package provided by the EOS Flight Operations Segment.

If you would like to request a MODIS activity be added to the schedule, please download this MS Word version of the Schedule Change Form (from Appendix B of the OCD). After the form has been filled out completely and has received all necessary signatures, please send it to the MODIS IOT for review.

Monitoring

The MODIS IOT will monitor all housekeeping telemetry for non-nominal conditions. In the event of an out-of-limits state, the MODIS IOT will follow recovery procedures as defined in the MODIS Fault Detection and Recovery Document.

Information regarding telemetry trending, limited life items, and instrument anomalies can be found in the MODIS IOT Daily Reports and MODIS IOT Weekly Reports.

The INSTRUMENT OPS sub-links in the menu bar on the left of this screen will take you to the following locations:

MODIS Health - Describes the current state of the MODIS Instruments.
IOT Weekly Reports - A week-by-week summary of the MODIS instruments and MODIS IOT activities.
IOT Event History - A chronological listing of MODIS Activities.
IOT Documents - A list several MODIS IOT specific links to files and sites.

The Daily and Weekly Reports are snapshots in time of the health and status of MODIS. Daily Reports exist for the Launch and Activation phase of the missions. After reaching a state of nominal "Science Mode", the IOT Reporting transitions to Weekly Reports. The Event History gives a chronological list of all activities and events that directly affected the state of each MODIS.

The MODIS IOT is comprised of the following individuals:

For general questions about the MODIS IOT, contact modiot@listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Responsible Civil Servant: Ed Masuoka

Email the MODIS IOT to report any problem with the MODIS IOT Web Pages.
Email the MCST Webmaster to report any problem with the MCST Web Pages.
Email the MCST Helpdesk to ask a question about Level 1B usage, algorithms or software.

Last Update: Friday, 04-Apr-2008 16:13:21 EDT

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