Satellites

1. joint mission of JAXA and NASA to measure Earth's atmospheric moisture in near real time; to be launched in 2014
3. NASA sun synchronous satellite with ASTER, MISr, MODIS and MOPITT sensors
5. Canadian Space Agency's constellation of satellites that monitor Canada's land and ocean waters
6. JAXA satellite monitoring environmental changes
7. partnership between U.S. and Taiwan; real-time monitoring of global climate
9. Japanese Earth Resources Satellite; decommisioned in 1998
11. commercial satellite imaging company, producing high resolution imagery
13. sudies impact of louds and aerosols on Earth's radiation usind lidar and infrared radiometer
15. NOAA's polar-orbiting satellite
16. decomissioned "Diachi" satellite; took images of ocean ice
17. European Space Agency

1. geostationary, geosynchronous; uses an imager and sounder to aid in weather forecasting and severe storm tracking
2. Indian Space Research missions
4. private commercial satellite that tracks storm intensities, plus other environmental services
8. an Indian Space Research satellite to monitor oceans anc conduct climate studies
10. France's Earth, sun synchronous, observation satellites
12. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program of the U. S. military
13. China and Brazil partnered on a high resolution mission
14. Indian Remote Sensing satellites - a series of earth observation satellites
16. NASA satellite; collects information about water cycle, ocean, stmospheric water, clouds