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2001 Weather Satellites Photo Gallery and Image Files from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration TIROS and GOES Satellites Visible and Infrared Historic Weather Images - NOAA Author: World Spaceflight News This electronic book on CD-ROM presents a truly spectacular collection of over 300 photos from the history of the weather satellite program. TIROS is an acronym for Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite. Data from this first meteorological satellite was processed at the Weather Bureau's Meteorological Satellite Laboratory. The l...  more »aboratory ultimately evolved into the satellite operations of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). NESDIS and its ancestor organizations have processed, interpreted, and archived millions of satellite images that were acquired by those early systems and later NOAA satellites. This album of images is a pictorial history of those accomplishments. Subjects include: Satellite Systems - Polar and Inclined Orbit Satellites, Geostationary Satellites, TIROS, GOES, Rockets and Launches, Visible ? Infrared ? Special Purpose Imagery. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for space and weather enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! Our unique "IMAGE GALLERY" in Acrobat format reproduces the photos in a "photo album" suitable for quick full-screen browsing! Many of the photos are accompanied by the NOAA caption. This format was designed to mimic the look and "feel" of a real book. There is no need to laboriously import images into a slow-loading program. We've also included the original image files, with some of the finest photographs provided in high resolution (about one MB per file). This CD-ROM is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9781893472877 ISBN-10: 1893472876 Pages: 432 Rating: Currently 0/5 Stars.   ? 0 stars, based on 0 rating Publisher: Progressive Management Book Type: CD-ROM Members Wishing: 0 Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

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