Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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What is a proving ground?
It's an effort to improve NOAA services through optimizing the use of satellite data along with other sources of data and information. The initiatives comprise a team of developers and users working together to improve an application in a testbed environment, providing assessments of utility from the users and feedback to the developers.

Learn more:
nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/related-information/proving-grounds