National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 17

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
June, 2002 to April, 2013

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
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A	0
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B	0
ARGOS-3	0
High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/3	0
Communications package for NOAA	0
Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking	0
Space Environment Monitor	0
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3	92
Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2	0

Also known as :

• missionID 105 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission NOAA-17 (ceos lexicon)
• resource NOAA-17 (dbpedia lexicon)
• Source NOAA-17 (nsidc lexicon)
• Platform NOAA-17 (podaac lexicon)