National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 16

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
September, 2000 to June, 2014

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.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/POES/index.html

Instrument	Datasets
Space Environment Monitor	0
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A	0
Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder	0
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B	0
ARGOS-3	0
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3	86
High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/3	0
Communications package for NOAA	0
Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking	0
Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2	0

Also known as :

• missionID 104 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission NOAA-16 (ceos lexicon)
• resource NOAA-16 (dbpedia lexicon)
• Source NOAA-16 (nsidc lexicon)
• Platform NOAA-16 (podaac lexicon)