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5) Satellite data


<URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov>
<URL:telnet://saa.noaa.gov>
  NOAA's Satellite Active Archive is a digital library of real-time and 
historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES).  Currently, AVHRR and TOVS data is available.

<URL:http://140.90.207.25:8080/EBB/ml/nic00.html> 
  NOAA Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) provides NOAA/NESDIS-operated satellite information for direct readout station operators and users of environmental satellite data. Limited information is provided for the satellites operated by other countries and enitities.
  Includes general information about satellites, schedules, navigation
information, publications, and more.

Added <URL:http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/SOCC/SOCC_Home.html> 
  NOAA Office of Satellite Operations home page.  Bulletins, basic 
information, and other information.  
  
<URL:http://www.dfd.dlr.de/>
  The German Remote Sensing Data Center.  Satellite images, data, and
other information.

<URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacenter_doc.html>
  Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility Home Page.  SAR images and derived data, AVHRR and Landsat satellite imagery.

<URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP>
  Info about, and sample data from the NOAA Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).  DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics environments. 

<URL:http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) home page. Contains general 
information on ozone, ozone satellite retrieval, and information about 
Earth Probe/TOMS, Meteor-3, and Nimbus-7.  Ozone movies and graphs
also available.  
  Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer 
(TOMS) ozone data is available via <URL:ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/>.
user is warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC.

<URL:gopher://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu>
<URL:ftp://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu>
  The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Pathfinder Data Set was generated at SSEC using full resolution GOES imagery from the Geostationary National Archive.  Includes 8 km products, 70 km equal area statistics products, 24 km browse of the 8 km products, and 9 panel browse of the 70 km statistics from May 4, 1987 through November 30, 1988. 

<URL:ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/>
  Two-line element data (TLE) for a variety of satellites. 



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