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The Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) is an interferometer array of radio telescopes in the French Alps Plateau de Bure at an altitude of 2550 meters, operated by the Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique (IRAM). It consists of twelve 15-meter dishes with a 1.7-km maximum baseline and it is the most sensitive millimeter telescope north of the equator. NOEMA is an upgrade to the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI), which consisted of six of the dishes. The upgrade began in 2014 adding a seventh dish, completing with the twelfth in 2022.