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2 NOAA TIROS-1 NASA 1) National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

3 Sputnik Sputlink Aerobee Aerobee

4 TIROS-1 TIROS-1 1) Spiral swirl

5 SeaWIFS Orb View2 Kola Barents

6 Jan Mayen Terra MISR Cloud Street Von Kalman Beersburg Terra MISR Von Kalman HCMM Von Kalman 1) Heat Capacity Mapping Mission

7 HCMM Von Kalman HCMM HCMM S NOAA NEXRAD

8 AVHRR GOES NOAA 1) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

9 AVHRR A B AVHRR TOMS DMSP Nimbus-7 OLS CZCS 1) Operational Line Scanner 2) Defense Meteorological Satellite Program 3) Coastal Zone Color Scanner 4) Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

10 SIR Seasat SMMR DMSP ESMR SSM/I Nimbus 5&6 Nimbus-7 MSU SAGE HRIS GOES-8 1) Active Microwave 2) Passive Microwave 3) Shuttle Imaging Radar 4) Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer 5) Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer 6) Special Sensor Microwave Imager 7) sounder 8) High Resolution Infrared Sounder 9) Microwave Sounder Unit 10) Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment

11 GOES-8 POES GOES 1) Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite 2) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

12 TIROS-2 Vanguard2 TIROS-1 MRIR APT TIROS-9 TIROS TIROS-8 TIROS Nimbus TIROS-9 Nimbus 1) Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer 2) Automatic Picture Transmission

13 Nimbus Nimbus 1&2 Nimbus 3&4 Nimbus AVCS IDCS Nimbus 1&2&3 Nimbus 2&3 Nimbus 3 throgh 7 Nimbus HRIR MRIR THIR Nimbus 5&6 Nimbus 7 Nimbus ESMR SMMR Nimbus 6 Nimbus 3&4 Nimbus 7 Nimbus 6 Nimbus 5 Nimbus 6 Nimbus 7 Nimbus 6 Nimbus 4&5 Nimbus 3&4 HIRS IRIS LIMS LRIR NEMS PMR SAMS SCAMS SCR SIRS Nimbus E Nimbus 4 Nimbus 7 Nimbus 6&7 Nimbus 7 Nimbus 5 Nimbus 7 Nimbus 6 BUV CZCS ERB SAMII SCMR SBUV/TOMS TWERLE II

14 Nimbus-3 Nimbus-1 Nimbus-5 SCMR Nimbus-1 SCMR Nimbus-7 SMMR Seasat 1) Surface Composition Mapping Radiometer 2) Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer

15 Nimbus-7 SMMR SMMR SMMR

16 TOMS Nimbus-7 TOMS TOMS 1) Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

17 SO2 TOMS SO2 Pinatubo TOMS SO2 TOMS

18 DMSP SSM/I DMSP SSM/I SSM/I SSM/I 1) Special Sensor Microwave Imager 2) Brightness Temperature map

19 SSM/I TRMM NASDA NASA TRMM PR - 1 TMI - 2 1) Tropical Rainfall Mapping Mission 2) National Space Development Agency 3) Precipitation Radar 4) The Multi-Channel Microwave Radiometer

20 VIRS - 3 SSM/I TMI TMI SSM/I TMI TRMM

21 TRMM TRMM TRMM TRMM TIROS 2-5 NOAA NOAA TOVS NOAA-17 TIROS TIROS-N TOVS AVHRR NOAA

22 SSU MSU HIRS-2 AVHRR AVHRR/3 SEN AVHRR DCS NOAA-17 HIRS AMSU A&B SAR GOES SMS VISSR 1) High Resolution IR Sounder 2) Stratospheric Sounding Unit 3) Microwave Sounding Unit 4) Space Environmental Monitor 5) Search and Rescue 6) Data Collection System 7) Synchronous Meteorological Satellites 8) Visible Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer

23 GOES-1 GOES GOES GOES GOES-9 VAS VISSR GOES VISSR GOES-8 CO2 GOES-9 VISSR GOES-8 1) Geostationary Operational Environomental Satellite 2) VISSR Atmospheric Sounder

24 GOES-8 ERBS SAGE-II II 1) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite 2) Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II

25 SAGE-II HRDI UARS ISAMS MLS STS-48 MLS UARS MLS 1) Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite 2) Microwave Limb Sounder 3) High Resolution Doppler Imager 4) Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder

26 NOAA-7 GOES-7 AVHRR AVHRR GOES7 NOAA-7

27 TRMM SST 1) NASA's Optical Transient Detector 2) Lightning Imaging Sensor 3) sea-surface temperature 4) oceanic-current patterns

28 SST SST SST SST SST SST AVHRR SST NOAA AVHRR

29 SST Orbview-2 SST Orbview-2 SST HCMM NOAA-14 AVHRR MODIS Terra MODIS AVHRR HCMM

30 SST Ferocious SST Seasat Seasat 1)El Nino 2) scatterometer

31 Seasat

32 QuickScat QuickScat CZCS Nimbus-7 gelbstoff 1) phytoplankton

33 SST Nimbus-7 CZCS SIR-C L SIR-C

34 Terra MODIS MODIS

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