Timothy J SchmitTim Schmit is at the Advanced Satellite Products Branch within NOAA's NESDIS Center for SaTellite Applications and Research (STAR) located in Madison, WI (the "birthplace of satellite meteorology"). Tim received his Bachelors and Masters degrees fromthe University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tim supports both the current GOES (sounder and imager) and the GOES-R (mostly the next generation advanced imager, and to a lesser extent advanced geostationary sounders). Tim's experience with satellite data and processing covers a number of areas, including calibration, visualization, simulations and algorithms for processing satellite data into meteorological/environmental information and user readiness and training.
Tim has extensive experience with data and deriving products from the current GOES imager and sounder data, including the check-out of GOES-8 through 15. When Tim began working on the ABI in 1999, it only had 8 spectral bands, yet a long list of requirements. It now has 16 bands. Tim's claim to fame is that he has been working on GOES-R longer than any other current NOAA employee. Tim is the co-chair of both the Imagery and Soundings Algorithm Working Group (AWG) teams and has long been communicating the benefits of the ABI.
Tim received the Department of Commerce Gold medal for 'outstanding efforts in orchestrating the use of retired geostationary weather satellites for improved coverage of South America'. In 2011, he won the T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the National Weather Association (NWA) for 'excellence in promoting and extending the use of satellite data within the operational community currently and in the future.' Tim was a 2018 finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Award and was recently elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Read More Read Less