Orbits and Data Availability
Introduction:
This lesson presents a brief overview of NOAA’s operational low Earth orbiting satellites, focusing on how their orbits define observational coverage and how ground receiving capabilities impact data latency from the observation time to product availability.This lesson is part of the Satellite Foundational Course for JPSS (SatFC-J).
Objectives:
- Describe the relative orbits of the JPSS/NOAA, GCOM, and GPM low Earth orbiting satellites and implications for product coverage and availability
- Describe the data latency for the current JPSS/NOAA polar-orbiting satellites
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