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The GOES-R and JPSS Satellite Era

GOES-R

GOES-R

The instruments on GOES-R will allow for increased spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution, Western Hemisphere real-time lightning detection, real-time solar extreme ultraviolet movies -- improving models of flares, monitoring of low energy ionizing responsible for spacecraft charging, and improved models of the ionosphere. The GOES-R instruments are listed below, but in the following pages, we will focus on the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), and the Solar Ultraviolet imager (SUVI).

GOES-R Instruments

  • ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager)
    • covers the Earth almost 5 times more quickly than the current GOES
  • GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mapper)
    • earlier detection of severe weather events, including tornadoes
  • SEISS (Space Environmental in-Situ Suite)
    • drives the Solar Radiation Storm portion of NOAA's Space Weather Scales
  • EXIS (Extreme UV/X-Ray Irradiance Sensor)
    • monitors solar flares (and helps predict proton events) that can disrupt communications and degrade navigational accuracy, as well as monitors solar variations that directly affect satellite drag/tracking and ionospheric changes, which impact communication and navigation operations.
  • SUVI (Solar UV Imager)
    • improved forecasting of space weather and early warnings of possible impacts to the Earth environment.
  • Magnetometer
    • provides the only operational measure of the impact of geomagnetic storms at geosynchronous orbit