Weather satellite images
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Geostationary orbit satellite images
- Meteosat images of Europe, Africa and the Atlantic regions
- Meteosat high resolution PDUS images
- GOES images - The Americas
- GMS images - The Far East and Australasia
- Meteosat 5 - Indian Ocean (INDOEX programme)
- GOMS - Russian imagery
Polar orbit satellite images
- Images from NOAA 12 and NOAA 14 in low altitude polar orbit
- Images from NOAA satellites - Russian area downlinks - images/maps etc.
Images from the UK Met. Office
Satellite images processed to Polar Stereographic projection. These images are updated at 12.00 (Visible light image) and at 00.00, 06.00, 12.00 and 18.00 (UTC) for the Infra-Red images. Polar projection matches the synoptic charts available from the MetFax Education service.
Images from the US Air Force in Europe
A range of anotated satellite images from US Air Force, Sembach, Germany, showing frontal systems, current
weather etc. overlaid on satellite images.
Other information
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Meteosat - the system, image formats etc.
A glossary of some weather satellite terminology
A collection of archive images from Meteosat and NOAA (Historical guide to US weather satellite platforms)
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Page update: January 12th 1999
This version: St. Vincent College