The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is being developed as the future imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series, slated to be launched in approximately 2015 on the GOES-R satellite. Similar to the current GOES imager, ABI will be used for a wide range of qualitative and quantitative applications while providing numerous improvements for monitoring weather, oceans, and climate.
The following table provides a comparison of the capabilities of the future GOES imager (or ABI) with the current GOES imager.