Geostationary & Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites

Background & Assessments

Judd Kamisch, Simon F Jenkins (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

117 Seiten

2013
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62257-649-4 (ISBN)

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This book provides an overview of The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R(GOES-R) programs, which are meant to replace current operational satellites. Both are considered critical to the United States' ability to maintain the continuity of data required for weather forecasting. Since the 1960s, the United States has used both polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites to observe the earth and its land, oceans, atmosphere, and space environments. Polar-orbiting satellites constantly circle the earth in an almost north-south orbit, providing global coverage of conditions that affect the weather and climate. As the earth rotates beneath it, each polar-orbiting satellite views the entire earth's surface twice a day. In contrast, geostationary satellites maintain a fixed position relative to the earth from a high orbit of about 22,300 miles in space. Both types of satellites provide a valuable perspective of the environment and allow observations in areas that may be otherwise unreachable.

Preface; Environmental Satellites: Focused Attention Needed to Mitigate Program Risks. Statement of David A. Powner, Director, Information Technology Management Issues (GAO), delivered at the Hearing on "Continuing Oversight of the Nation's Weather Satellite Programs: An Update on JPSS & GOES-R"; Geostationary Weather Satellites: Design Progress Made, but Schedule Uncertainty Needs to be Addressed; Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Changing Requirements, Technical Issues, & Looming Data Gaps Require Focused Attention; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	1-62257-649-7 / 1622576497
ISBN-13	978-1-62257-649-4 / 9781622576494
Zustand	Neuware