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Report of investigations volume 8777
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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), U.S. Department of Labor, did a linear analysis for a new underground coal mine in Grant County, WV, through the interpretation of LANDSAT imagery and high-altitude, color-infrared aerial photography, to identify areas of potentially unstable roof in advance of mining. The Bureau of Mines included this mine in its ongoing study of the correlation between geologic features and linears. Three years after...
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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.
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Testimony volume GAO-02-684 T
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Discusses the work on the planned National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), and the nation's current polar-orbiting weather satellite program, plans for NPOESS, and key challenges in managing future NPOESS data volumes.