Meteorology Space Systems
Overview
Defense Meteorological Support Program [DMSP]
DMSP 1
DMSP 2
DMSP 3
DMSP 4
DMSP 5A
DMSP 5B
DMSP 5C
DMSP 5D
NPOESS
DWS Defense Weather Satellite
DMSP 2
DMSP 3
DMSP 4
DMSP 5A
DMSP 5B
DMSP 5C
DMSP 5D
NPOESS
DWS Defense Weather Satellite
User Equipment
- AN/SMQ-11 Satellite Receiver
- AN/FMQ-14 DMSP Mark IIA Van
- AN/TMQ-35 DMSP MARK IV Van
- AN/TMQ-37 DMSP MARK III Van
- AN/UMQ-13 DMSP MARK IVB Van
- MIST Meteorological Information Standard Terminal
- IMETS Integrated Meterological System
Other Resources
- DMSP Homepage @ USAF LAAFB
- DMSP Homepage @ NOAA
- Oceanographer of the Navy (CNO N096) Home Page
- Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC)
- MAGTF Meteorology & Oceanography (METOC) Support Marine Corps Warfighting Publication MCWP 3-35.7
- METOC Effects Smart Book
- DMSP Overview The Aerospace Corporation July 03, 1997
- Inquiry into the Feasibility of Weather Reconnaissance from a Satellite Vehicle RAND CORPORATION APRIL 1951
- Spacecast 2020 - 21ST CENTURY WEATHER SUPPORT ARCHITECTURE
- Spacecast 2020 - SPACE-BASED SOLAR MONITORING AND ALERT SATELLITE SYSTEM (SMASS)
- Spacecast 2020 - SPACE WEATHER SUPPORT FOR COMMUNICATIONS
- Air Force 2025 - Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
- Interactive Global Geostationary Weather Satellite Imagery -- real-time weather satellite pictures of Earth with an interactive viewer. You can animate satellite views at low-resolution as well as get image sequences on-demand for your point of interest. Images are broadcast every 30 minutes by the GOES weather satellite and posted by the NASA Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC).
- Operational Significant Event Imagery imagery of significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data available at NOAA
- Composite Satellite Image of the World by Intellicast
- METEOSAT Weather Satellite Images
- GMS images @ Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center West
- NOAA polar orbiting satellite images @ NERC Satellite Station web page
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
- NOSC METOC Web
- Air Force Global Weather Central Home Page
- The METOC Page -- NPS
- The Weather Channel Home Page
Satellite Weather Support
in the Gulf War
News
- DMSP transferring control of satellites to NOAA : Jul 15, 1998
- First satellite-flying unit inactivated : Jun 12, 1998 -- The 6th Space Operations Squadron inactivated June 11 at Offutt. The squadron controlled the workhorse weather-satellite system of the U.S. military -- the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, known as DMSP.
- Air Force turns over weather satellite control to NOAA : Jun 2, 1998 (AFNS) -- Air Force Space Command and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration combined operations of their separate weather satellite systems into a single system May 29.
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