CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- Metop-B
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Full Name
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Meteorological Operational Polar Satellite - B
aka Metop-1
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Status
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Operational (nominal)
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Mission Agencies
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EUMETSAT , CNES , ESA, NOAA
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Launch Date
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17 Sep 2012
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Mission Links
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mission site | data access portal
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EOL Date
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Aug 2024
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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38771 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2012-049A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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101.4 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Descending
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Orbit Inclination
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98.7 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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824 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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9:30
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Repeat Cycle
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29 days
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Objectives and Applications
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Meteorology, climatology. Due to a hardware problem on the Metop-B satellite, the A-DCS3 instrument is only supporting an ARGOS-2 service.
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Mission Measurements
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| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Aerosols | AVHRR/3, GOME-2 |
| Atmospheric Humidity Fields | AMSU-A, GOME-2, GRAS, HIRS/4, IASI, MHS |
| Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, GOME-2, HIRS/4, IASI, MHS |
| Cloud particle properties and profile | AMSU-A, MHS |
| Liquid water and precipitation rate | AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, MHS |
| Ozone | GOME-2, HIRS/4, IASI |
| Radiation budget | AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, GOME-2, HIRS/4, IASI |
| Trace gases (excluding ozone) | HIRS/4, IASI |
| Atmospheric Temperature Fields | AMSU-A, GRAS, HIRS/4, IASI |
| Gravity and Magnetic Fields | Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements | SEM (POES) |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | AVHRR/3 |
| Soil moisture | AMSU-A, ASCAT |
| Vegetation | AVHRR/3 |
| Surface temperature (land) | AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, HIRS/4, IASI |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | AVHRR/3 |
| Ocean | Ocean surface winds | AMSU-A, ASCAT |
| Surface temperature (ocean) | AVHRR/3, HIRS/4, IASI |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | AVHRR/3 |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | AMSU-A, AVHRR/3 |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | AMSU-A, ASCAT, AVHRR/3 |
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Mission Instruments
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Featured Datasets
More Datasets
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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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