Call number:
AWI A3-17-90661-1
In:
Issues in the integration of research and operational satellite systems for climate research, 1
Description / Table of Contents:
Currently, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Commerce (DOC) acquire and operate separate polarorbiting environmental satellite systems that collect data needed for military and civil weather forecasting. The National Performance Review (NPR) and subsequent Presidential Decision Directive (PDD), directed the DOD (Air Force) and the DOC (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA) to establish a converged national weather satellite program that would meet U.S. civil and national security requirements and fulfill international obligations. NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), and potentially other NASA programs, were included in the converged program to provide new remote sensing and spacecraft technologies that could improve the operational capabilities of the converged system. The program that followed, called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), combined the follow-on to the DOD's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and the DOC's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) program. The tri-agency Integrated Program Office (IPO) for NPOESS was subsequently established to manage the acquisition and operations of the converged satellite.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
xvii, 134 S.
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IIl., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0309076579 (print; v. 1 : pbk.)
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9780309076579 (print; v. 1 : pbk.)
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0309069858 (print)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.17226/9963
Language:
English
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
