There are two types of civil operational remote-sensing satellites in use today, polar-obiting and geostationary. Two U.S. polar-obiting weather satellites monitor weather and surface conditions over the entire globe. Two U.S. geostationary weather satellites observe, respectively, the Atlantic Ocean and East and Gulf Coasts and the Pacific Ocean and West Coast. A single U.S. Earth resources satellite, called Landsat, is also in polar orbit. These United States systems are complemented by a number of foreign Earth-observing satellites, and more foreign satellites will be launched in the latter half of the 1980's.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Satellite Programs Briefing
1983
209 pages
Report
No indication
English
Meteorological Data Collection, Analysis, & Weather , Ocean Sciences & Technology , Unmanned Spacecraft , Meteorological satellites , Artificial satellites , Remote sensing , Weather , Storms , Ocean temperature , Clouds(Meteorology) , Sea ice , Vegetation , Radiometers , Orbits , Spaceborne photography , Infrared mapping , Boundaries , Ocean waves , Data processing , Search and rescue , Operations , TIROS satellites , GOES satellites , LANSAT satellites , NOAA satellites
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