• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1982-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) maintains a constellation of sun-synchronous, near-polar orbiting satellites. The orbital period is 101 minutes and inclination is 99 degrees....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1992-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites collect visible and infrared cloud imagery as well as monitoring the atmospheric, oceanographic, hydrologic, cryospheric and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1992-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Visible and infrared imagery from DMSP Operational Linescan System (OLS) instruments are used to monitor the global distribution of clouds and cloud top temperatures twice each day. The archive...

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