Weather satellites: Systems, data, and environmental applications

Book · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5518525

Rao, P K; Holmes, S J; Anderson, R K; Winston, J S; Lehr, P E ^[1]

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1. NOAA, NESDIS, Washington, DC (United States)

The present review of weather-satellite systems, data, and environmental applications encompasses the evolution of space-based weather observation, national observing capabilities, sensor data and processing, climate and meteorological applications, applications to land, agriculture, and ocean sciences, and some future directions. Specific issues addressed include U.S. operational polar and geostationary satellites, the Japanese GMS, remote sensing instrumentation, the Argos data collection and location system, satellite data product processing and archiving, atmospheric soundings, and image display and analysis systems. Also addressed are stereoscopic measurements, convective-scale weather analysis and forecasting, aviation and marine applications, and applications to the study of thermal anomalies, the earth-radiation budget, stratospheric monitoring, and vegetation monitoring, and reference is made to the potential of a polar orbiting platform.

• OSTI ID: 5518525
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENT
REMOTE SENSING
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
CLIMATIC CHANGE
DATA PROCESSING
METEOROLOGY
OCEANOGRAPHY
SATELLITES
WEATHER
PROCESSING
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