Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite (GOES) (GOES)
Water
Satellite orbiting at 22,000 miles above the earth's surface that remains above the same location on the earth. DCPs transmit river and rainfall data to the GOES for relay to a ground-receive site in Wallops Island, VA.
- — Service Hydrologist Reference Manual Glossary of Hydrologic Terms retrieved 2014-06-01