Otter Bowl-Satellites
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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