What is TOA?

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What is TOA?

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What is TOA?

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Re: What is TOA?

by asdc_user_services » Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:39 pm America/New_York

Top-of-the-Atmosphere (TOA) is a surface approximately 20 km above the Earth's surface.
The TOA is an ellipsoid x²/a² + y²/a² + z²/b² = 1
where a = 6408.1370 km and b = 6386.6517 km.

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