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NOAA's GEOS-8
launched 1994 geosyncronous, 35,800 km
geostationary operational environmental satelliltes
GEOS
NOAA's GEOS-9
1995, still operates, coverage of eastern US and parts of Atlantic Coast, cloud images, movied used on TV weather reports, geosyncronous
NOAA's GEOS-10
1998, replaced GEOS-8, bives info about severe weather (tornadoes, flash floods, hurricanes) sea and lake ice conditions of much of US, Pacific, and Latin America, geosyncronous
Nasa's NIMBUS-7
1978-1986, monitors back-radiation and reflection from Earth's surface and carries Costal Zone Color Scanner: detected multiband radiant energy reflecting from chlorophyll in sea and land plants, data was used to make images of world's production of marine plant life
NOAA's TIROS
1960, 550-850 km, TV Infared Observation Satellite, 1st earth observing satellite, Sun-synchronous(polar orbit that is displaced westward w/ sun)
Nasa's Sea Satellite (SEASAT)
June-Oce 1978, radar altimeter could measure distance from satellite to sea surface within 5 cm, measured scattering patterns caused by surface waves
US Navy's GEOSAT (Geodynamic Experimental Ocean Satellite
1985, replaced SEASAT, measured month to month sea level changes, Sea-level topography, surface winds and waves, local gravity changes, abrupt boundries between water types
AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer)
uses IR radiation to sense sea surface temp changes
JERS-1 (Japanese Earth Resource Satellite)
1002, environment and resource observation program, sees S. hemisphere
TOPEX/Poseidon
1003, US-French, measured global sea levels, tides, surface currents, interactions between sea and atmosphere
ERS-1, ERS-3
European Environmental Remote Sensing satellites, 1991, 1995, all weather radar and microwave systems, can be used even when clousd and darkness, sees S. hemisphere
ENVISAT
European 2002
SEASTAR
1997, color scanner (Sea WiFS - sea-viewing wide-fild-of-view sensor) monitors distribution of plant life (like NIMBUS-7) monitors clouds, radiation, water vaopr, precipitaion, polar ice
Nasa's Terra
Earth Observing System satellite,1999, monitors clouds, radiation, watervapor, precipitation, polar ice
TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer)
1999, replaced by advanced Ozone Maping Satellite (OMI) in 2004, monitors clouds, radiation, water vapor, precipitation, polar ice
WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment)
Predicts ocean current evolution

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