Dundee Satellite Receiving Station
Geostationary Satellite Glossary
- PDUS
Primary Data User Station. This is the name for the equipment used
to receive digital data from Meteosat. Analogue images are also
transmitted by Meteosat (SDUS - Secondary DUS) but these are of
lower quality, resolution and usefullness for scientific applications,
and are not received at Dundee.
- IR
Infra-red channel/wavelengths. 10.5 - 12.5 um.
- VIS
Visible channel/wavelengths. 0.5 - 0.9 um.
- WV
Water Vapour absorption channel/wavelengths. 5.7 - 7.1 um.
- COL
False colour image. Colours are assigned to classified sections of
the image as derived from the original satellite data.
- HRI
High Resolution Imagery.
- METEOSAT
European Geostationary Satellite centered over Africa/Europe.
- GMS
Japanese Geostationary Satellite centered over Japan/Australia.
- GOES-E
American Geostationary Satellite centered over US/S.America.
- GOES-W
American Geostationary Satellite centered over Pacific.
- A-format
Meteosat whole earth disk label.
- B-format
Meteosat Europe Sector label.
- X-format
All non-Meteosat data label.
- E-format
GOES-E data label.
- W-format
GOES-W data label.
- J-format
GMS data label.
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