The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System future US operational Earth observation system

Author

Cunningham, John D. ; Ricker, Frederick L. ; Nelson, Craig S.

Author_Institution

Integrated Program Office, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

351

Abstract

Over the last nine years the Integrated Program Office has been developing the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). NPOESS spacecraft will be launched into three orbital planes beginning later this decade to provide significantly improved operational capabilities and benefits to satisfy the critical civil and national security requirements for space-based, remotely sensed environmental data.

Keywords

artificial satellites; data acquisition; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; Integrated Program Office; NPOESS spacecraft; National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System; US operational Earth observation system; civil security; national security; orbital planes; remotely sensed environmental data; space-based environmental data; Acoustic sensors; Earth; Instruments; Meteorology; National security; Satellites; Silver; Space technology; Space vehicles; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293773

Filename

1293773