The Improved TIROS Operational Satellite (ITOS), launched in its current configuration with radiometers as NOAA-2 in October 1972, is the present type of NOAA polar orbiting operational satellite. The current NOAA-5 ITOS spacecraft is the last of this second generation series of operational polar orbiting satellites. The third generation polar system, TIROS-N, carries into space new environmental instruments which are major technological advances over the ITOS instrumentation. Specifically these new capabilities include: (1) Higher resolution, day and night cloud cover observations on a local and global scale; (2) Improved observations of vertical temperature and water vapor profiles on a global scale; and (3) First operation flight of a high capacity data collection/relay and platform location system. This paper emphasizes the satellite and ground system capabilities of interest to the users of direct readout services from this new system.
The TIROS-N Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System
1977
32 pages
Report
No indication
English
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