NOAA HRPT High Resolution Images
The High Rate Picture Transmission (HRPT) service installed on the NOAA satellites has for some two decades been the main source of high quality data from polar orbiting meteorological satellites at major user stations throughout the world. The data stream not only contains full resolution images in digital format from the AVHRR instrument but also the atmospheric information from the suite of sounding instruments. Through HRPT reception the user site can acquire data from three or more consecutive overpasses twice each day from each satellite, giving high resolution data coverage of a region extending to about 1500 km radius from the user station. The imagery gives a snapshot of the meteorological conditions and can also be used for many land and ocean applications, while the sounding data gives detailed atmospheric data that may be processed and used in regional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models.
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Polar Orbiting Satellite View
High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT)
Environment Canada
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (or GOES) program is a key element in United States' National Weather Service (NWS) operations. GOES weather imagery and quantitative sounding data are a continuous and reliable stream of environmental information used to support weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and meteorological research. Evolutionary improvements in the geostationary satellite system since 1974 (the launch of the first Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, SMS-1) have been responsible for making the current GOES system the basic element for U.S. weather monitoring and forecasting. Spacecraft and ground-based systems work together to accomplish the GOES mission.
GOES North America
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North America Composite IR & topography
Environment Canada
GOES Canada East
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North America Composite IR & topography
Environment Canada
Atlantic Region
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Atlantic Sector (IR Ch 4)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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