GOES-17 Data shown in this post are preliminary and non-operational.Continuous Full Disk (Mode 4) Testing is occurring on October 1 2018. Mode 4 is the highest data flow rate for the ABI and results in a Full Disk image every 5 minutes. No mesoscale sectors are produced during Mode 4... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *GOES-15 (GOES-West) Infrared Window (10.7 µm) and GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Hurricane Rosa on the morning of 28 September 2018, after it had rapidly intensified to Category 4 intensity overnight (ADT | SATCON). Since GOES-17 was operating in... Read More
This blog post contains information on GOES-17 and its transition to the operational GOES-West satellite at 137º W Longitude (a link is here). Much as the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) imagery from GOES-17 is preliminary and non-operational, the information in this blog post is also preliminary, and it will be... Read More
GOES-17 imagery shown here is preliminary and non-operational. The default scanning strategy for the Advanced Baseline Imager on GOES-16 is Mode 3, also known as Flex Mode. In Mode 3, there are 2 Mesoscale Sectors scanned every minute, a CONUS sector scanned every 5 minutes, and a Full Disk... Read More
