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GOES I-M INR Performance Statistics Help Document

This document is provided to help explain some of the terminology and graphical output available on the GOES Image Navigation and Registration (INR) Performance Statistics web site. In order to gain a fuller understanding of the data available, two tables (see below) outlining the GOES INR Performance Specification are also included as a reference. The primary purpose of the INR statistics plots is to provide a means of monitoring and trending INR performance as it relates to the defined specifications.

Weekly Residuals

The "Weekly Residual" plots depict all of the imager/sounder star and imager visible/IR landmark navigation errors for the entire week of interest. A residual is defined as the difference between the observed and predicted locations of a landmark or star measurement within the instrument field-of-view. The plots entitled "SSAA" (Short-Span Attitude Adjustment) reflect the actual performance errors observed by the user. The plots entitled "PARENT" are the performance errors that would have been observed in the absence of SSAAs. SSAAs are periodic adjustments to the daily Orbit & Attitude coefficients to correct for non-predictable spacecraft pointing errors. These plots give an idea of the overall performance for the week, depicting maximum observed errors and day-to-day comparisons. These plots will be updated on a weekly basis for each operational spacecraft.

INR Summary The "INR Summary" is a table summarizing the navigation and registration performance statistics in all pertinent categories for the week of interest. In the REGISTRATION and NAVIGATION STATISTICS tables, the column "ALL" indicates the combination of visible and IR channel landmark measurements. This table will also be updated on a weekly basis for each operational spacecraft.

Imager INR Specification Requirements

  Requirements (3 s)
Noon +/- 8 hr Midnight +/- 4 hr
Image Navigation Accuracy: radius
(km at nadir)
+/- 4 +/- 6
Registration within an image: 25 min (mrad) 46 46
Registration between repeated images (mrad)  
15 min 42 70
90 min 84 105
24 hours 168 168
48 hours 210 210
Channel to Channel Registration (mrad) 28 28
Fixed Earth Projection and Grid Duration (hrs) 24 24

Sounder INR Specification Requirements


  Requirements (3 s)
Noon +/- 8 hr Midnight +/- 4 hr
Image Navigation Accuracy: radius (km at nadir) +/- 10 +/- 10
Registration within 120 min sounding (mrad) 84 112
Registration between repeated soundings(mrad) 24 hours 280 280
Channel to Channel Registration (ch 8)(mrad) 22 22
Fixed Earth Projection and Grid Duration (hrs) 24 24


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