National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 12

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
May, 1991 to December, 2005

The 5th generation series of POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites) started with NOAA-K (NOAA-15) which was launched on a Titan II vehicle on May 13, 1998 from VAFB, CA into a morning orbit to replace the aging NOAA-12 satellite.

directory.eoportal.org

http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes/

Instrument	Datasets
ARGOS-3	0
High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/2	0
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2	4
Space Environment Monitor	0
Stratospheric Sounding Unit	0
Communications package for NOAA	0
Microwave Sounding Unit	0

Also known as :

• missionID 223 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission NOAA-12 (ceos lexicon)
• resource NOAA-12 (dbpedia lexicon)
• Source NOAA-12 (nsidc lexicon)
• Source NOAA-12 (ornl lexicon)
• Source NOAA-12 (NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION-12) (ornl lexicon)