Talk:GOES-17

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I intend to add the following improvements to the instruments section, unless anyone has issue with it:

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Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) for imaging Earth’s weather, climate and environment.
Built by Harris for the GOES - R line of Satellites. The imaging capabilities of the ABI is superior to previous imagers in several ways:

Spectral resolution:
This instrument has 16 bands (Over the last GOES Imager, which only had 5 bands ):

2 Visible Bands:
 * Band 1: 0.45 - 0.49 μm ("Blue")
 * Band 2: 0.60 - 0.68 μm ("Red")

4 Near IR Bands:
 * Band 3: 0.847 - 0.882 μm
 * Band 4: 1.366 - 1.380 μm
 * Band 5: 1.59 - 1.63 μm
 * Band 6: 2.22 - 2.27 μm

10 other Infrared Bands:
 * Band 7: 3.80 - 3.99 μm
 * Band 8: 5.79 - 6.59 μm
 * Band 9: 6.72 - 7.14 μm
 * Band 10: 7.24 - 7.43 μm
 * Band 11: 8.23 - 8.66 μm
 * Band 12: 9.42 - 9.80 μm
 * Band 13: 10.18 - 10.48 μm
 * Band 14: 10.82 - 11.60 μm
 * Band 15: 11.83 - 12.75 μm
 * Band 16: 12.99 - 13.56 μm

Temporal resolution:
This changes depending on the type of image.
 * Imaging of entire western hemisphere occurs every 5 to 15 minutes, while previously this was a scheduled event, with at most three photos per hour.
 * Imaging of the continental United States once every 5 minutes, compared to one every 15 minutes in previous satellites
 * One detailed image over some 1000 by 1000 km box every thirty seconds, a capability previous imagers did not have

Spatial resolution:
Spatial resoltuion depends on what band is being used. Band 2 has a spatial resolution of 500 meters Bands 1,3,4,5 and 6 have spatial resolutions of 1 km All other bands have spatial resolutions of 2 km

Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)
This instrument is used for measuring lightning (in-cloud and cloud-to-ground) activity. To do this, it considers a single channel in the NIR (777.4 nm) constantly, even during the day, to catch flashes from lightning.

The sensor has a 1372 by 1300 pixel CCD, with an 8-14 km spatial resolution (with the resolution decreasing near the edges of the FOV). The GLM has a frame rate of 2 milliseconds, meaning it considers the entire study area 500 times every second. .

WillNelson (talk) 19:08, 17 March 2018 (UTC)