Post-launch tests of radiometric functions of GOES sensors

Jeanette G. Baucom; Michael P. Weinreb; Edward C. Wack; Rongrong Xie Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.363541

24 September 1999 Post-launch tests of radiometric functions of GOES sensors

Jeanette G. Baucom, Michael P. Weinreb, Edward C. Wack, Rongrong Xie Johnson

Proceedings Volume 3750, Earth Observing Systems IV; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.363541
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The imagers and sounders aboard NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) provide quantitative data for weather forecasting and studies of the Earth's atmosphere and surface. This paper describes the post-launch radiometric testing of the imagers and sounders and present result from the instruments aboard the GOES-8, - 9, and -10 satellites. In these tests, we measure such quantities as nose and signal-to-noise ratios, radiometric responsivities and their variability, and detector 1/f noise. Performance anomalies specific to GOES, such as variation of scan-mirror reflectance with east-west scan angle, are characterized. The on-orbit results are compared with the performance specification, with pre-launch test result, and with results, and with results of post-launch tests of the imagers and sounders on other GOES satellites.

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Jeanette G. Baucom, Michael P. Weinreb, Edward C. Wack, and Rongrong Xie Johnson "Post-launch tests of radiometric functions of GOES sensors", Proc. SPIE 3750, Earth Observing Systems IV, (24 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.363541

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