GRAVITE Distribution

Government Resource for Algorithm Verification, Independent Test, and Evaluation (GRAVITE) system is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) system, developed and deployed by Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Ground Project to support Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val), Data Quality Monitoring, and Algorithm Investigation, Tuning and Integration. GRAVITE enables novice and expert users to discover and obtain data easily by using standard protocols. GRAVITE version 3.0 (GV3.0) distribution system is a major upgrade to the GRAVITE version 2.0 (GV2.0) distribution tools. GV2.0 enabled users to easily define dynamic searches, which unfortunately resulted in slowing down the operational database, as no back-end validation was performed.