Title :
The MetOp Program
Author :
Oriol, Evangelina
Author_Institution :
Eur. Space Agency, Paris, France
Abstract :
The MetOp Program is a cooperation between ESA and EUMETSAT organizations to contribute to the network of polar operational meteorological satellites by replacing, as from the year 2001, the morning platform currently supplied by the NOAA. The nominal payload consists of a suite of instruments which continue to serve the present imaging and sounding requirements of the meteorological community, complemented by instruments which will also contribute significantly to the Earth climate monitoring as well as to other non-meteorological applications
Keywords :
artificial satellites; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; meteorological radar; meteorology; microwave measurement; radar applications; radiometry; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; ESA; EUMETSAT; IR imaging; MetOp Program; atmosphere meteorology; equipment instrument; microwave radiometry radiometer; payload; polar operational meteorological satellite; radar; remote sensing; satellite equipment;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International
Conference_Location :
Firenze
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2567-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521134
