meteorological satellite"(Acronym: metsat.) Environmental and weather satellites (such as GOES, Meteosat, GMS, NOAA, DMSP) that carry instruments to remotely sense portions of the electromagnetic spectrum radiated from the earth and the ...
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) A U.S. Air Force-managed meteorological satellite program with satellites circling in sun-synchronous orbit.
RAMM Advanced Meteorological Satellite Demonstration and Interpretation System (RAMSDIS): Only a few NWSFOs have this type of satellite system. The data for this system is sent from Boulder, Colorado to Region Headquarters.
POES satellites include: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), Landsat, SPOT and NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (NPOES). The DMSP and NPOES satellites are operational meteorological satellites.
The United States Department of Defense's Meteorological Satellite (DMSP) can "see" the best of all weather vehicles with its ability to detect objects almost as small as an oil tanker.
Meteor - A series of operational polar-orbiting meteorological satellites launched by the former Soviet Union since 1969. There have been three series of Meteor satellites, Meteor-1, Meteor-2, and Meteor-3.
Meteosat - METEOrological SATellite (European)
MHz - MegaHertz
MISR - Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
MLS - Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
MODIS - MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (EOS) ...
designated as an invest, data collection and processing is initiated on a number of government and academic web sites, including the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite ...
In addition to the normal radiosonde data, the NOGAPS assimilates ship observations, buoy observations and satellite observations from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program system of polar orbiters.
The Bureau also has a network of more than 400 part-time observers who provide surface observations up to seven times a day. Other sources of observations include meteorological satellites, automatic weather stations, drifting ocean buoys, ...
 See also: Satellite, Meteor, High, Weather, Earth
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