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.
Full Name
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 12
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
14 May 1991
Mission Links
EOL Date
31 Dec 2005
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
101.3 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.5 deg
Orbit Altitude
850 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
4:49
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
A-DCS3 - Argos Advanced Data Collection System3 |
AVHRR/2 - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2 |
| HIRS/2 - High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/2 |
| MSU - Microwave Sounding Unit |
| NOAA Comms - Communications package for NOAA |
| SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor |
| SSU - Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| 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 |
| Radiation budget | AVHRR/2, HIRS/2 |
| Trace gases (excluding ozone) | HIRS/2 |
| Atmospheric Temperature Fields | HIRS/2, MSU, SSU |
| 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 |
NOAA POES and METOP Local Area Coverage Imagery
Jan-2019 | This collection is composed of AVHRR Level 1B products (1.1 km) reprocessed
from the NOAA POES and Metop AVHRR sensors data acquired at the University of
Dundee and University of Bern ground stations and from the ESA and University
of Bern data historical archive. The data collection covers Europe and the neighbouring regions in the period of
1 January 1981 to 31 December 2019. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. - Read more |
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