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HISTORY OF EUMETSAT, p25.HISTORY OF EUMETSAT, p23.
p24. Table 1: MOP OverviewOn 1 January 1987 EUMETSAT took over full responsibility for the MOP from ESA. EUMETSAT acquired full ownership of and rights to utilise the satellites and their data.Details of the MOP are given in Annex 1 of the founding Convention.The space segment comprised three satellites recording imagery in three spectral bands: one visible, one infrared channel giving temperature distribution and one infrared channel for water vapour distribution. The ground segment enabled two satellites, one active and one in stand-by mode, to be controlled and monitored, and the raw data calibrated and assigned a geographical location (pre-processed).In addition, the Annex describes MOP's ground segment as being designed to accomplish the following:. Extraction of quantitative meteorological products, including wind speed and direction, sea surface temperature, upper tropospheric humidity, cloud amount and height, and a data set for climatology.. Dissemination of pre-processed data to users in two streams (digital and analogue).. Acquisition, processing and dissemination of data from Data Collection Platforms (ground-based platforms recording traditional meteorological observations, such as pressure and temperature)..Archiving, and retrieval of archived data (significant for climate studies).
SEE ALSO| |1. Meteorologists shed political shackles, a review of Declan Murphy's history of the first 25 years of EUMETSAT (2011), by Helen Gavaghan.2. An interview in 2010 with Dr Tillman Mohr, a special advisor to the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organisation, in Science, People & Politics.eChapter| |TOP
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Introduction
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The History of EUMETSAT is available in English and French from EUMETSAT©.First printed 2001. ISBN 92-9110-040-4
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