Principles of Remote Sensing - Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, CRISP

Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellites

Polar orbiting meteorological satellites are satellites on the near-polar sun-synchronous orbits, carrying instruments for meteorological observations.

NOAA-POES (Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite), USA - A series of satellites in sun-synchronous near-polar orbits for continuous meteorological observation, sounding of atmospheric profiles and measurement of energy budgets. The currently operating satellites are NOAA-14 and NOAA-16.
DMSP (Defence Meteorological Satellite Program), USA - A series of meteorological satellites launched by the US Department of Defence.
Fengyun-1, Peoples Republic of China - A series of meteorological satellies in sun-synchronous near-polar orbits.

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