The Greater Miami Chapter of the AMS presents
Timothy J. Schmit
Dec 7, 2004 at 3pm.
This seminar will discuss the capabilities and improvements associated
with the upcoming and next generation of GOES satellites. The GOES N, O,
and P satellites (the first of which is scheduled for launch in the first
quarter of 2005) will have improved temporal coverage,
navigation, image resultion and radiometrics, as well as less
instrument noise.
The next generation GOES-R geostationary satellite will be launched in
the 2013 timeframe and will have significant design improvements over the
GOES N, O, and P series. It will host powerful multispectral imaging and
hyperspectral sounding sensors; directed at acquiring significantly
greater data on the: atmosphere, environment, land, ocean, and coastal
areas. The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and the Hyperspectral
Environmental Suite (HES) on GOES-R will enable much improved monitoring
compared to current capabilities. The ABI will have 16 spectral bands
(compared with five on the current GOES
imagers), improved image resolution in the infrared bands, and almost a
five-fold increase in the coverage rate. The HES-IR will be able to
provide higher spectral resolution observations (on the order of 1 cm- 1,
compared to 20 cm-1 on today’s broadband sounders) with spatial
resolutions of between 4 and 10 km. Every product currently produced
from today’s GOES imager will be improved, plus there will be at least a
factor of four increase in the number of products from the GOES-R system.
In summary, the planned improvements to the GOES system will help to
better monitor the hurricane environments. This should lead to
improved forecasts.
"20 years of GOES measurements
from 2005 to 2025"
NOAA/NESDIS
Advanced Satellite Products Team
Media/Conference room at NHC