[Satellite TODAY 03-22-13] Harris Corporation has partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop and successfully deploy the Product Anomaly, Ticket, Relationship, Organization, and Notification (PATRON) – a new tool that aims to help track and report anomalies in critical weather satellite information. 

   Harris said it created the PATRON tool for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series (GOES-R) Ground Segment and that the unit was immediately implemented to support other environmental satellites currently in operation. 

   “PATRON is a trouble reporting and tracking system for satellite weather products created by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s Office of Satellite Products and Operations (OSPO),” Harris said in a company statement. “Weather forecasters, emergency managers, scientists and other environmental data users throughout the western hemisphere rely on the accuracy and availability of this information to rapidly analyze and disseminate weather information to the public.”