TY - BOOK ED - Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite Program U.S. ED - National Climatic Data Center (U.S.) TI - Technical documentation with imagery and digital data: NOAA polar orbiter data user's guide (August 1997) and NOAA global vegetation index user's guide (July 1997) PY - 1997///] CY - Asheville, N.C. PB - The Center, Satellite Services Group KW - Artificial satellites in earth sciences. KW - Local KW - Meteorology KW - Remote sensing KW - Databases KW - Oceanography KW - Vegetation dynamics KW - Global radiation KW - Databases. N1 - "August 1997"--Disc label.; Documentation accompanying disc not distributed to depository libraries; "National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Technical Documentation CD-ROM for users of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES) data and products"--Readme.txt.; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Contains description of instruments on NOAA POES series from TIROS-N through NOAA-14, level 1b data format that NOAA uses to distribute raw data to users, and derived data products including TOVS soundings, sea surface temperature (SST), mapped GAC, and radiation budget; it also describes the various products derived from NOAA POES data to monitor global vegetation growth and distribution. ER -