1998 EARTH SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| NEW SATELLITE HELPS SCIENTISTS FORECAST FUTURE WEATHER (NOAA-K) | G98-025 | 5/12/99 | 00:14:00 | Pre-launch video package for the NOAA-K satellite launch scheduled at 11:52 a.m. EDT on May 13, 1998, from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. NOAA-K's advanced instrumentation will collect data on cloud cover, surface conditions such as "mapping" world ice & snow coverage, fires, El Nino events, provide new insights into hurricanes, vegetation growth; atmospheric temperatures, moisture, aerosol, and ozone distributions; and gather and relay information from fixed and moving data platforms. The satellite will also be used to support the Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) system that is a part of a constellation of satellites in orbit used to detect and locate emergency beacons for ships, aircraft, and people in distress.
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TAPE CONTENTS: |
| ITEM (1): NOAA-K ORBIT ANIMATION - Animation depicting the NOAA-K satellite in its unique Sun-sunchronous polar orbit.
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| ITEM (2): A CONCERT OF SATELLITES - Animation depicting the NOAA-K satellite along with it's two companion Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The satellites work together to give scientists advanced weather data used for long and short-term weather forecasts. NOAA-K is the first of a new generation of polar-orbiting environmental satellites (POES). |
| ITEM (3): NOAA-K SATELLITE ANIMATION - Animation of the NOAA-K satellite.
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| ITEM (4): POES PRODUCTS: (The following items depicts the different types of products that NOAA-K will provide.)
a) ANALYZING EL NINO - The first visualization is an analysis of sea surface temperature data using AVHRR infrared instrument. The second animation clearly reveals the 1997 El Nino event.
b) KEEPING AN EYE ON HURRICANES - Animation fly-by of Hurricane Fran.
c) TRACKING FIRES - Indonesian fire data from October & November 1997, collected by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument on NOAA's Polar-orbiting environmental satellite (POES).
d) FLORIDA THUNDER BUMPER - Footage of a massive thunderstorm progressing over Florida on July 2, 1995.
e) ICE FLOWS - Greenland coastal ice flows.
f) SEARCH & RESCUE - NOAA-K will aide in search and rescue missions by detecting and locating emergency beacons for ships, aircraft, and people.
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ITEM (5): NOAA-K PRE-LAUNCH PROCESSING AT VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CA - B-roll of pre-launch activities.
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| ITEM (6): WEATHER FORECASTER B-ROLL - B-roll of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration process weather data.
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| ITEM (7): INTERVIEW WITH JOEL SUSSKIND, POES PROJECT SCIENTIST, GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
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| ITEM (8): INTERVIEW WITH JIM PURDOM, DIRECTOR, NOAA'S NASDA OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS
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