Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F-17

U.S. Air Force, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
November, 2006 to June, 2015

DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) is a long-term operational meteorological program of the US DoD (Department of Defense), managed by the USAF and operated by the 6th Satellite Operations Group at Offutt AFB (Air Force Base), Nebraska. The program originated in the early 1960s with the objective to collect and disseminate worldwide cloud cover data on a daily basis (along with oceanographic and solar-geophysical environment parameters). The DMSP system is being used for strategic and tactical weather prediction to aid the US military in planning operations at sea, on land and in the air.

directory.eoportal.org

http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

Instrument	Datasets
Operational Linescan System	0
Special Sensor Ionospheric Plasma Drift/Scintillation Meter	0
Special Sensor Magnetometer	0
Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder	27
Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager	0
Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager	0

Also known as :

• missionID 408 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission DMSP F-17 (ceos lexicon)
• Source DMSP 5D-3/F17 (nsidc lexicon)
• Platform DMSP-F17 (podaac lexicon)