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Below are checklists of Automatic weather observing stations (autostations) on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the items featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
The Argos and GOES DCS (Data Collection Systems) are designed so that a wide variety of Data Collection Platforms (DCPs), including land autostations and ocean weather buoys, can transmit their observations to various satellites, which then transfer them to centralized ground stations for processing and further dissemination. Philatelic items that refer to a DCS can therefore be considered to contain an implicit reference to land autostations and ocean weather buoys.
| Launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers) (farther below) |
Other postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) (immediately below) |
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| Land autostations | |
| Ocean buoys | Ocean buoys |
Below is a list of Automatic weather observing stations (autostations) on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
| Country | Catalog Number | Type of Item | Year of Issue | Notes on Content |
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| Land autostations | ||||
| Argentina | None | (Pictorial) cancel on cover | 2011 | Automatic observing station |
| Australian Antarctic Territory | None | (Multi-color printed and black rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 2008 | "Automatic Weather Station at Wilkins Runway" (in logo text) |
| Australian Antarctic Territory | None | (Black rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 2008 | "Automatic Weather Station at Wilkins Runway" (in logo text) |
| Australian Antarctic Territory | None | (Black rubber-stamp) cachet on cover (different) | 2008 | "Automatic Weather Station at Wilkins Runway" (in logo text) |
| China (People's Republic) | None | Postal card | 2006 | Automatic observing station |
| China (People's Republic) | None | Postal card | 2006 | Automatic weather observing station site (in text within the lower-left photograph) |
| Cyprus | 960 fdc1 (Mi959 fdc1) | (Cyprus Post) cachet on FDC | 2000 | Automatic observing station |
| Cyprus | 960 fdc2 (Mi959 fdc2) | (Cyprus Post and blue rubber-stamp) cachet on FDC | ||
| Greenland | 739 (Mi734) | 2016 | (two) automatic observing station(s) | |
| Greenland | 741 (Mi736) | Self-adhesive | ||
| India | 708 (Mi662) | 1975 | Automatic observing station | |
| India | 708 fdc | Stamp and (purple printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| India | 708 folder1 | FDC folder (Calcutta cancel) | ||
| India | 708 folder2 | FDC folder (New Delhi cancel) | ||
| India | 708 folder3 | FDC folder (Trivandrum cancel) | ||
| Russia (USSR) | None | (Blue and black printed) cachet on stamped envelope | 1967 | Arctic automatic radiometeorological station |
| Uganda | 1194 (Mi1326) | 1994 | Automatic observing station (in center of stamp), more clear on 1198 | |
| Uganda | 1198 (Mi1330) | Automatic observing station | ||
| Tunisia | 1435 (Mi1687) | 2008 | Automatic observing station | |
| Tunisia | 1435 ds | Deluxe sheet (1435) | ||
| Tunisia | 1435 fdc | Stamp on FDC | ||
| Tunisia | 1435 folder | FDC folder, also inside, also back | ||
| Ocean buoys | ||||
| Central African Republic | C115 (Mi326A) iC115 (Mi326B) | Imperforate | 1973 | Nomad ocean buoy |
| Central African Republic | C115 proof1 | Signed proof (blue) | ||
| Central African Republic | C115 proof2 | Signed proof (black) | ||
| Central African Republic | C115 proof3 | Signed proof (red) | ||
| Central African Republic | C115 proofs | Color proof strip | ||
| Central African Republic | C115 fdc1 | Stamp on FDC (blank/no cachet) | ||
| Central African Republic | C115 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (purple and black printd cachet) | ||
| French Southern and Antarctic Territories | C50 (Mi128) iC50 | Also annotated Imperforate | 1979 | FGGE ocean buoy; the buoy data were collected by a ATN-type/NOAA satellite as part of "Programme Argos" |
| French Southern and Antarctic Territories | C50 fdc1 | Stamp on FDC (Éditions P.J. cachet) | ||
| French Southern and Antarctic Territories | C50 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (Éditions J.F. cachet) | ||
| French Southern and Antarctic Territories | None | (Black printed) cachet on cover | 1979 | "Programme BOUÉE OP79/3, Expérience météorologique mondiale" |
| Germany | None | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | 2018 | The MARNET measuring network consists of various measuring stations in the German Bight and the western Baltic Sea. They automatically register marine data such as temperature, salinity and surface currents. There are 9 automatic measuring stations and 7 further buoys that only measure the swell. This measurement network is operated by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). |
| Grenada | 491 (Mi517) | 1973 | Nomad ocean buoy | |
| Korea (North) | 3730 (Mi4032) | Two of MS4 (2x 3730+2x 3731) | 1998 | Ocean buoy |
| Maldive Islands | 466 (Mi481) i466 | Imperforate | 1974 | Nomad ocean buoy (note: mis-spelling of "metereological" instead of "meteorological") |
| Maldive Islands | 470 (Mi485) i470 | Imperforate | ||
| Micronesia | 297 (BL39) | On stamp of SS1 | 1998 | Ocean buoy |
| Niger | C71 (Mi157) iC71 | Imperforate | 1967 | Nomad ocean buoy |
| Niger | C71 proof | Signed proof | ||
| Niger | C71 color-proof | Color proof | ||
| Niger | C71 proofs | Color proofs | ||
| Niger | C71 essay | Adopted essay | ||
| Niger | C71 fdc | Stamp and (red-brown and cyan and black printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| Panama | 460D (Mi816) i460D (Mi822) | Imperforate with changed color | 1965 | Hypothetical nuclear-powered weather station anchored in the ocean that would provide automated meteorological observations during a planned 10-year lifetime |
| Panama | 460D pair | 460D pair (2x 460D) | ||
| Panama | 460Ef (BL34) i460Ef (BL35) | On one of MS2 (460D-460E) On one of imperforate MS2 (i460D-i460E), changed colors | ||
| Peru | 1423 (Mi1938) | 2004 | Ocean buoy | |
| Peru | 1423 folder | FDC folder, also inside, and back | ||
| South Africa | None | (Light green/cyan rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 1983 | Department of Transport, "weather buoys" (in logo text) |
| South Africa | None | (Black rubber-stamp) cachet | 1984 | Department of Environment, "weather buoys" (in logo text) |
| South Africa | None | (Light green/cyan rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 1985 | Department of Transport, "weather buoys" (in logo text) |
| South West Africa | None | (Pale green/cyan rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 1984 | Department of Transport, "weather buoys" (in logo text) |
| United States | 4893 fdc1 (Mi5079 fdc1) | (Multi-color printed) cachet on FDC, also detail | 2014 | ODAS-33 ocean weather buoy |
| United States | 4893 fdc2 (Mi5079 fdc2) | (HL) cachet on FDC, also back | Ocean buoy | |
Below is a list of Automatic weather observing stations (autostations) on launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers).
| Country | Cancel Date | Cancel Location | Type of Item | Notes on Content |
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| Ocean buoys | ||||
| United States | 1981-08-10 | Greenbelt MD | (Space Voyage) cachet on GMS-2 launch cover | Ocean buoy |
| Japan | 1981-08-11 1981-08-11 | Minamitane (text cancel) Tanegashima (scenic cancel) | (Space Voyage purple and orange) cachet on GMS-2 launch cover | |
| Japan | 1981-08-11 | Tsukubagakuen | (Space Voyage purple and blue) cachet on GMS-2 launch cover | |
| United States | 1989-09-05 | Greenbelt MD | (Space Voyage) cachet on GMS-4 launch cover | Ocean buoy |
| Japan | 1989-09-06 | Tanegashima (scenic cancel) | (Space Voyage blue and pink) cachet on GMS-4 launch cover | |
| Japan | 1989-09-06 | Tsukubagakuen | (Space Voyage brown and pink) cachet on GMS-4 launch cover | |
| United States | 2011-06-10 | Vandenberg AFB, CA | (Mission 57) back of SAC-D launch cover, also front | "Salinity data will be validated with surface measurements by ships, buoys and Argo floats" |
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