NOAA Satellite and Information Service - Information Sheets
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Two_Orbits_One_Mission
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Operational Environmental Satellites
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NESDIS Vision and Mission
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On The Web
Satellite Imagery and Information
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On The Web
Satellite Data and Product Information
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GOES Sea Surface Temperature
A depiction of Atlantic & Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperature derived from GOES East observations (145 KB)
Learn About Ozone Word Scramble
Learn About Ozone Activity Sheet
Learn About Environmental Satellites Word Game
Learn About Environmental Satellites Activity Sheet
Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station
NOAA Monitors Climate and Environment in Maryland
Volcano Eruption
GOES-8 imagery of a volcanic eruption over Northern Ecuador (4,712 KB)
Four Seasons from Space
Poster with four full hemispheric images from the GOES East Satellite taken at the beginning of each season (2,691 KB)
Phenomena
Fires, snow cover and thunderstorms in satellite imagery (2,320 KB)
El Niño
Sea surface temperatures during the height of the 1997 El Niño event as seen by NOAA 14 Polar-orbiting Satellite (3,720 KB)
Global Vegetation from Space
Droughts in the new millenium from NOAA's polar orbiting satellites, 2000-2001 (483 KB)
Nighttime Lights of the World
Satellite depiction of the night lights of the world from the DMSP Operational Linescan System (2,744 KB)
South African Vegetation in a Drought
A comparision of South African vegetation in El Niño and La Niña years (2,088 KB)
Nighttime Lights of North America
Satellite depiction of the night lights of North America from the DMSP Operational Linescan System (76 KB)
Hurricane Linda
GOES-9 imagery of Hurricane Linda, September 12, 1997 (2,339 KB)
NOAA Satellite Operations Facility
NSOF: NOAA's environmental satellite and data processing operations center in Suitland, Maryland (339 KB)
Ozone Facts
The importance of ozone and the role it plays in the Earth atmosphere (282 KB)
Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station
Global Environmental Satellites
For more than a generation, environmental satellites continue to be key monitors of the Earth's environment (400 KB)
The Foundations of Environmental Satellites: Providing Data and Imagery for Over 50 Years
Additional brochures about NESDIS available in pdf.