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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- NOAA-13
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Full Name
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 13
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
09 Aug 1993
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
09 Aug 1993
EO Portal Info
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
TBD
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
850 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications
Meteorology, agriculture and forestry, environmental monitoring, climatology, physical oceanography, Volcanic eruption monitoring, ice and snow cover, total ozone studies, space environment, solar flux analysis.
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Humidity Fields
HIRS/2
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
AVHRR/2
,
HIRS/2
Liquid water and precipitation rate
MSU
Ozone
HIRS/2
,
SBUV/2
Radiation budget
AVHRR/2
,
HIRS/2
,
SBUV/2
Trace gases (excluding ozone)
HIRS/2
Atmospheric Temperature Fields
HIRS/2
,
MSU
,
SSU
Gravity and Magnetic Fields
Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements
SEM (POES)
Land
Vegetation
AVHRR/2
Surface temperature (land)
HIRS/2
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
AVHRR/2
Ocean
Surface temperature (ocean)
AVHRR/2
Snow & Ice
Snow cover, edge and depth
AVHRR/2
Mission Instruments
A-DCS3 - A-DCS3
AVHRR/2 - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2
EHIC - Energetic Heavy Ion Composition Experiment
HIRS/2 - High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/2
MAXIE - Magnetospheric Atmospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment
MSU - Microwave Sounding Unit
NOAA Comms - Communications package for NOAA
S&R (NOAA) - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
SBUV/2 - Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2
SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor
SSU - Stratospheric Sounding Unit
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