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The European geostationary satellite, located above the equator on the prime meridian from where it can observe and transmit images of the meteorological conditions over the whole Africa, much of Europe and the Atlantic and part of South America. Other operational systems include IROS-N (USA), METEOR (USSR) and, for hydrology and oceanography, the LANDSAT (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990) |