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GOES Imager
multi-channel energy sensor

The GOES Imager is a multi-channel instrument designed to sense radiant and solar-reflected energy from sampled areas of the Earth. The multi-element spectral channels simultaneously sweep east-west and west-east along a north-to-south path by means of a two-axis mirror scan system. An imager schematic is given below.


Image provided by: GOES Mission Overview


The instrument can produce full-Earth disc images, sector images containing the edges of the Earth, and various sizes of area scans completely enclosed within the Earth scene using a new flexible scan system. A five-channel monitoring system makes it possible to produce a wide variety of image products from imager data.

Text Provided By: GOES Mission Overview



Image provided by: GOES-8 Results (NASA-Goddard)

One such example is this visible full-Earth disc image taken by GOES-8.



current GOES
Terms for using data resources. CD-ROM available.
Credits and Acknowledgments for WW2010.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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