Conference Presentations, Publications, and Technical Reports

(Due to the length of these documents, some are broken into parts by chapter or section. Tables, graphs, and pictures have been included separately as GIF files.)

• Presentations from the NOAA Satellite Direct Readout Users Conference for the Americas, December 2002.
• NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 82: An Introduction to the GOES I-M Imager and Sounder Instruments and the GVAR Retransmission Format (November 1994)
• The GOES I-M DataBook, Revision 1, published 4 January 1997 by Space Systems-Loral. Extensive descriptions and technical information about instruments, space craft systems, communications, etc. Also available as PDF files for downloading.
• NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS 40: The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Data Collection System (June 1994)
• NOAA Polar Orbiter Data Users Guide, revised August 1997. Also available on CD-ROM (See ordering information on linked page).
• NOAA Global Vegetation Index User's Guide, revised August 1998.
• NOAA-K/L/M Users Guide. Final version. A printed version is not currently available.
• NOAA-17 Advanced TIROS-N (ATN) Pamphlet: NASA and NOAA
• NOAA REPORTS. For and about NOAA employees. In Adobe Acrobat .PDF format
  

On-Line Tutorials and Training Materials

• Basics of Remote Sensing from Satellite. An on-line introduction to the principles used in the NOAA AVHRR and GOES Imager instruments prepared by the Forecast Products Development Team (FPDT) at the Office of Research Applications.
• Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation and Analysis. This is the web based version of a CD-rom. Written by Nicholas M. Short Jr. (GSFC/Applied Information Sciences Branch. Very extensive and complete, focusing mainly on imagery from sensors in the visible and near-infrared part of the spectrum. Updated May 1999
• Recent publications and papers from the Office of Research and Applications/Operational Products Development Branch. Focused on NOAA satellite imagery. On-line only; Acrobat PDF files.
• Introduction to GOES I-M. An on-line tutorial describing the sensor and data changes that began with the launch of GOES-8, prepared by the Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology (RAMM) Team (NESDIS) at CIRA. Includes examples of of improved GOES-8 data versus that of GOES-7.
• GOES I-M 3.9um Channel on-line Tutorial, prepared by the NESDIS RAMM Team. (See above).
• Advanced GOES Image Interpretation. An on-line tutorial prepared by the NESDIS RAMM team.
• Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer An overview of the AVHRR instrument characteristics, prepared by the USGS EROS Data Center, to aid users of EDC archived AVHRR data.
• Satellite Meteorology An on-line, multimedia instructional module in remote sensing. Prepared by the WW2010 Project, University of Illinois.
• El Nino An on-line, multimedia instructional module providing a background about El Nino, conditions responsible for its occurrence and impacts. Prepared by the WW2010 Project, University of Illinois.
• Global Fire Monitoring. A discussion and examples of using satellites to monitor global biomass destruction from burning prepared by Chris Justice and Yoram Kaufman (NASA)
• Radar Mapping Techniques and Applications by Paula Messina, Hunter College Geography Department.