Merging data from multiple satellites, OPERA can help government agencies, disaster responders, and the public access data about natural and human impacts to the land. The OPERA (Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis) project, managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator
, the University of Maryland, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Southern Methodist University. Scientists conceived OPERA in 2020 to address satellite data needs across different federal agencies and to enable better access to information on everything from water management to wildfire monitoring. The goal is to make specific satellite-based observations free and timely for users. The first offerings will be available in April 2023, with more to follow.
“Quite often satellite missions are driven by science, applications, or technology demonstration. In OPERA, we focus on fulfilling the operational needs identified by federal agencies who rely on our work,” said David Bekaert, OPERA project manager based at. “We leverage cloud computing to turn massive amounts of satellite observations into analysis-ready products relevant to our federal stakeholders.
“The magic of OPERA is that it transcends any one space mission,” said Gerald Bawden, program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, who helped envision the project as part of the interagency. Created by the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Group on Earth Observations, the Satellite Needs Working Group seeks to identify the satellite needs of U.S. federal agencies and develop new remote sensing products that fulfill their observational gaps.
The first round of OPERA products ties together visible and infrared measurements from the ESA Sentinel-2 A/B satellites and from Landsat 8, built by NASA and operated by the USGS. These instruments will soon be augmented by data from the cloud-penetrating radars on ESA’s Sentinel-1 A/B satellites and the recently launched Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, a partnership between NASA and the French space agency CNES .
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