NOAA Satellite and Information Service -
Selected Program Brochures

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NGDC manages public domain geophysical data to study environments from the core of the Earth to the surface of the Sun. This includes the major program areas of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), Ecosystems Information, Geomagnetism & Gravity, Global Relief, Marine Geology, Marine Geophysics, Natural Hazards, Snow & Ice, and Space Weather.
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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is a DoD program managed by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. DMSP satellites monitor the meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics environments. This brochure describes the DMSP data and products archived by NGDC.
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The Earth's environment is the context for life. Understanding and predicting both the environment and ecological relationships is vital to understanding and managing coastal and marine ecosystems; tasks central to NOAA's mission. This brochure describes NGDC's Ecosystems Information program.
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NGDC's Global Relief Program includes 3-arc-second Coastal Relief Models for the U.S., 30-arc-second Global Land Digital Elevation Model (GLOBE), 2-arc-minute land and marine relief model (ETOPO2), bathymetry for the Great Lakes, multibeam bathymetric data, and NOS hydrographic survey data.
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NGDC's Geomagnetic and Gravity programs provide data and products to support such diverse activities as compass navigation to despinning of satellites, resource exploration to determination of Earth's substructure. NGDC offers a wide range of products related to past, present, and near-future magnetic environments.
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NGDC archives digital data files and analog data sets containing descriptions and analyses of sediment and rocks from the seafloor. Marine geologic data are available for over 100,000 cores, grabs, dredges, and drill samples covering most of the world's coastal and open ocean areas.
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NGDC's Marine Geophysical Data program include trackline marine geophysics (including multi-beam bathymetry), marine seismics, sediment thickness, coastline/shoreline data, and high-altitude vector aeromagnetic data. New program areas include sidescan sonar and shallow water multibeam bathymetry.
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NGDC maintains digital and analog archives related to the impact of tsunamis, significant earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Our unique products related to natural hazards include digital databases, historic event data, technical publications, and photographs.
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The NGDC Space Weather program supports the U.S. National Space Weather Program with solar and space environment data from global networks, by managing the national data archives, preparing products, and providing services for environmental data, including data from GOES, POES, DMSP, and the ionosphere.
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NOAA's Satellite and Information Services operates the Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), and - in conjunction with DOD - the Defense Meteorological Satellites (DMSP).
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