Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F-8

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
June, 1987 to September, 2004

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

Instrument	Datasets
Special Sensor Microwave Imager	24
Special Sensor Microwave Temperature Sounder	0
Operational Linescan System	0

Also known as :

• missionID 300 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission DMSP F-8 (ceos lexicon)
• Source DMSP 5D-2/F8 (nsidc lexicon)
• Platform DMSP-F08 (podaac lexicon)