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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: imager instrument (61K)]
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: Visible Image of Earth (136K)]
Image provided by:
GOES-8 Results (NASA-Goddard)
One such example is this visible full-Earth disc image taken by GOES-8.
current GOES
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imager products
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![[Image: imager instrument (61K)]](/guides/rs/sat/goes/gifs/img1.gif){kind=link}
![[Image: Visible Image of Earth (136K)]](/guides/rs/sat/goes/gifs/img2.gif){kind=link}