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Abbreviation: TRMM TMI 
Long Name: Tropical Rainfall 
Measuring Mission, TRMM 
Microwave Imager 
Temporal: 1997 - present 
Spatial: tropical region (0 to 33 
degree latitude north and south) 
Resolution: 6-50km 
  
Common Uses: data related to 
rainfall rates over the oceans 
combined with PR 
Agency: JAXA Earth Observation Research and E 
Application Center (EORC) 
URL: http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ TRMM/index e.htm 
Sample: 
  
Tropical Region Sea Surface Temperature 
  
Abbreviation: ADEOS OCTS 
Long Name: Advanced Earth Spatial: Global 
and Temperature Scanner 
Common Uses: 
e determines ocean 
primary production 
e carbon cycle 
e ocean conditions for 
fishery 
e environmental 
monitoring 
  
  
Temporal: 1996 - 1997 
Observing Satellite, Ocean Color | Resolution: Maximum 700m 
  
Agency: JAXA Earth Observation Research and 
Application Center (EORC) 
URL: http://Www.corc.jaxa.jp/TRMM 
Sample: 
  
  
Chlorophyll-a offshore of Peru 
  
  
2. CONCLUSIONS 
The civil government agencies and non-governmental 
organizations that comprise CEOS provide vast amounts of 
satellite data supporting environmental projects ranging from 
small tracts of land to entire ocean basins. Discovering these 
diverse holdings can often be challenging. This paper 
identifies and briefly describes atmospheric, terrestrial and 
oceanographic sources created from satellites and provides 
links for interested researchers to obtain data that may satisfy 
their project needs. 
3. REFERENCES 
e Committee on Earth Observation Satellites. 
http://www.ceos.org/pages/agencies.html 
« Improving Utilization of Earth Observation 
Satellite Data: Decisions of the 17^ CEOS Plenary 
on Satellite Data Utilization, Boulder, CO, USA, 
December 2003. http://www.ccos.org/utilization 
4. SOURCES 
e . Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) 
http://www.cers.nrcan.gc.ca/cers/homepg.pl?e 
e Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) 
http://www.cnes.fr/ WEB UK/index.htm 
Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales 
(CONAE) http://www.conae.gov.ar/principal.html 
Duetsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt 
(DLR) 
http://www.dlr.de/dlr;internal&action- setlanguag 
c.action2LANGUAGE-e 
European Space Agency (ESA) 
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/index.html 
Geo-Informatics & Space Technology 
Development Agency (GISTDA) 
http://www .gistda.or.th/Gistda/HtmIGistda/Html/E 
nIndexMain.html 
[Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) 
http://www.inpe.br/english/ 
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration 
http://www.noaa.gov/ 
Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) 
http://www.snsb.se/dyn aktuellt.asp?languageld=2 
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization 
(FAO) http://www .fao.org/ 
    
United States Geological Survey (USSGS) 
http://www.usgs.gov/ 
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