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aliases:
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    term: 408
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  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: DMSP F-17
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    term: DMSP 5D-3/F17
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    term: DMSP-F17
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      name: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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      type: organization
      url: http://www.noaa.gov/
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    person_uri: ~
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      name: U.S. Air Force
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description: '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.'
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instruments:
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    name: Operational Linescan System
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  - description: Space environment monitor
    description_attribution: Space environment monitor
    identifier: special-sensor-ionospheric-plasma-drift-scintillation-meter-2
    name: Special Sensor Ionospheric Plasma Drift/Scintillation Meter
    uri: /instrument/special-sensor-ionospheric-plasma-drift-scintillation-meter-2
  - description: Magnetometer
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    name: Special Sensor Magnetometer
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  - description: Multi-purpose imaging MW radiometer
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    uri: /instrument/special-sensor-microwave-imager-sounder
  - description: Space environment monitor
    description_attribution: Space environment monitor
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  - description: Space environment monitor
    description_attribution: Space environment monitor
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name: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F-17
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 2006-11-04T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-17
url: http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html