The stored data collected will be available to meteorological services at the raw data level within 2 hours and 15 minutes from the time of observation. EPS HRPT is a 3.5 Mbps direct broadcast transmission in L band. LRPT is a 72 Kbps low resolution direct broadcast transmission in VHF band.
Coverage is the area the satellite can see while it can be seen from the ground station.
Resolution is 1 km at nadir and about 0.7 degree C accuracy on sea surface temperature products. The data are transmitted to the ground receiving stations by one of three 5.25 Watt, S-Band transmitters coupled to one of three quadraphase antennas on the NOAA satellites. The HRPT data may also be transmitted on 1702.5 MHz, Left-hand Circular Polarization. 1 km Resolution. In 1990, more than 5000 stations, established in at least 123 countries, received APT data from U.S. and Russian satellites.