Meteorological Operational Polar Satellite - A

Centre National D'études Spatiales , European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, European Space Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
October, 2006 to August, 2018

MetOp-A is Europe's first polar-orbiting (LEO) satellite dedicated to operational meteorology. The MetOp program was originally planned as a much larger satellite concept, called POEM (Polar-Orbit Earth-Observation Mission), a successor mission series to ERS-1/2 on the Columbus Polar Platform (PPF design).

directory.eoportal.org

http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/index.htm?l=en?

Instrument	Datasets
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A	0
ARGOS-3	0
Advanced Scatterometer	3
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3	22
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment - 2	0
High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/4	0
Microwave Humidity Sounder	0
Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking	0
Space Environment Monitor	0
GNSS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding	0
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer	0

Also known as :

• missionID 261 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Metop-A (ceos lexicon)
• Platform MetOp-A (podaac lexicon)