GOES NEXT last updated 16 June 2008

Public Reports Related to GOES-NEXT

GOES-R Users Conferences

• NOAA web site for the GOES-R Users Conferences
• GOES-R R&D Instrument Workshop at NASA-GSFC on 17 November 2005

GOES-R Project Documents

• GOES-R Home Page
• NESDIS web site for GOES-R planning on a NOAA site
• GOES-R Architecture Study on a NOAA site.
  • The kick-off presentations give a broad view.
  • NOAA awarded $20M, spread over a dozen vendors.
• NESDIS held an "Industry Day" to reveal their massive requirements documents to vendors
• GOES/POES Project web site at NASA-GSFC
• NASA-GSFC "Industry Site" for the GOES-R Project at NASA-GSFC has the released contracting documents.
• GOES-R - A Space Segment Overview, 2006
• GOES-R portal to work-in-progess (userid:password required)
• Some handy public reference documents can are posted at ftp://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/chesters/goesref/.
  Individual links to these documents are listed below.

GOES-R Logo (JPEG format)

• Small color logo
• Medium color logo
• Large color logo
• Small B&W logo
• Medium B&W logo
• Large B&W logo

REFERENCE DOCUMENTS IN PDF FORMAT

• Next Generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
  (GOES-R Series): A Space Segment Overview
  Alexander Krimchansky, Dino Machi, Sandra A. Cauffman, Martin A. Davis
  2006
• Science Benefits of Advanced Geosynchronous Observations
  AGS Study Group, NASA-GSFC, 1998
• Imaging from Nondedicated Satellites
  MITRE Corp., 1993
• Multiresolution Analysis, Entropic Information and the Performance of Atmospheric Sounding Radiometers
  G. E. Peckham
• Region-of-Interest Data Compression with Prioritized Buffer Management
  Sam Dolinar, Gilbert Chinn, Jonathan Harel, Aaron Kiely, Matt Klimesh, Roberto Manduchi, Shervin Shambayati, Melanie Vida;
  Antonio Ortega, Sang-Yong Lee, Phoom Sagetong, Hua Xie
• Attenuation of direct solar radiation by a perforated plate for on-orbit visible calibration
  James C. Bremer, H. John Wood, Guojun Si
• AIRS-Light Instrument Concept and Critical Technology Development
  Kevin R. Maschhoff
• The Spaceborne Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (SIRAS)
  Instrument Incubator Program Demonstration
  Thomas S. Paganoa, Thomas U. Kampeb
• Wavelet Compression of MODIS Satellite Images
  Andrew Lenharth, Richard E. Ladner, Scott Hauck, Eve A. Riskin, Agnieszka Miguel
• Optimized Compression for Earth Science Data Using JPEG 2000
  Janet C. Rountree, Brian N. Webb, Thomas J. Flohr, Michael W. Marcellin
• A Visually Lossless Data Compression Technique for Real-Time Frame/Pushbroom Space Science Imagers
  Pen-Shu Yeh, Jack Venbrux, Prakash Bhatia, Warner H. Miller
• Application of Principal Component Analysis to High-Resolution Infrared Measurement Compression and Retrieval
  Hung-Lung Huang, Paolo Antonelli
• Wide-Field High-Performance Geosynchronous Imaging
  H. John Wood, Del Jenstrom, Mark Wilson, Sanford Hinkal, Frank Kirchman
• Preliminary Results of the GPS Flight Experiment on the High Earth Orbit Amsat-Oscar 40 Spacecraft
  M.C. Moreau, et al., 2002
• Cryocooler Load Increase due to Contamination of Low-e Cryogenic Surfaces
  R.G. Ross, 2002
• SpaceWire - Links, nodes routers and networks
  European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS), 2003

Legacy Documents

Overviews

• Lessons Learned from the GOES-I Experience
• GAO's 1997 recommendations for GOES-NEXT planning
• NASA Administrator's 1998 vision for Earth Sciences and support of the operational spacecraft
• GAO review of GOES-R in September 2006
  • GAO Official Report
  • GAO Congressional Testimony
  • GAO Executive Summary
  • NOAA Administrator's Testimony

NASA Strategies

• NASA-HQ Strategic Plan, 2000
• NASA Earth Science Enterprise's Strategic Plan, 2000
• POST-2002 MISSION PLANNING WORKSHOP; Easton, Maryland; August 1998; NASA Earth Science Enterprise
• ESE MISSION SCENARIO FOR THE 2002-2010 PERIOD; Easton, Maryland; August 1998; NASA Earth Science Enterprise
• VISION 2025 - The Movie; NASA Earth Science Enterprise [265 MB QT, narration]
• GOES Rapid Scans of Florida Thunderstorms, in Color - Movie Clip; NASA-GSFC Visualization Analysis Lab [17 MB QT]

Spacecraft

• GOES-NOPQ Spacecraft Procurement in 1997
• The Hughes Corp. 1998 contract plan for GOES-NOPQ

Imagers

• ABI formulation contracts awarded: 30 April 2001
  NASA has awarded three $8 million contracts to Ball Aerospace and Technologies, Boulder, Co., ITT Industries, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing, Goleta, Calif., for formulation phase work on an advanced imager for the next generation of geostationary weather satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
  The new advanced sensor, called the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), will be the primary instrument on NOAA's future Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) beginning with the GOES-R mission which will be ready to fly in 2008. The ABI will provide the core data that the National Weather Service uses for routine weather forecasting and severe storm forecasting.
  Under terms of the firm fixed price contracts, each company will develop detailed engineering plans for the future instrument. NASA is expected to select a company in 2003 to build the instrument.
  
• ABI procurement by the GOES project
• "WIDE-FIELD HIGH-PERFORMANCE GEOSYNCHRONOUS IMAGING", Wood, H.J., Jenstrom, D., Wilson, M., Hinkal, S., and Kirchman, F., CP420, SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM-1998, edited by Mohamed S. El-Genk, DOE CONF-980103, The American Institute of Physics, page 76, 1998.
• NOAA-NESDIS Request for Information (RFI) about new technology for JPL's Imager design, April 1998.

Sounders

• Sounders 2002: GOES-N, GHIS and ABS
• NASA's New Millenium Programs (NMP) Earth Observer-3 (EO3) instrument, the Geosyncronous Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer (GIFTS)

Instrument of Opportunity (IOO)

Lightning Observations

• NASA-MSFC's plan for a Lightning Mapping Sensor (LMS)

Solar Observations

• Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) at NASA-MSFC
• Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) for GOES-NOPQ
• SXI archives

Entire Systems

• Geosynchronous Advanced Technology Environmental System (GATES), a NASA-GSFC plan presented at the SPIE-96 Denver Conference "GOES-8 and Beyond".
  • GATES radiometric requirements, spectrum and table
  • Movie concept of GATES construction and operation [11 MByte QuickTime]

Advanced Geosynchronous Studies (AGS)

• AGS Management Site
  • FTP service (password required)
• IGARSS-97 preprint, describing AGS
• Science
  • AGS Science Workshop Agenda - March 1998
  • AGS Science Benefits - draft document, March 1998
  • Science Benefits of Advanced Geosynchronous Observations, best draft in PDF, September 1998
  • AGS Image simulations from the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS)
  • AGS Image simulations using a Synthetic Scene Generation Model (SSGM)
• AGS Imager instrument studies in STAAC
  • AGS Imager instrument studies summary for the 1999 AMS meeting in Dallas (PDF)
  • AGS Imager science specifications (rough draft - PDF)
  • Optical Design by Dennis Evans
• AGS logo, in various formats and sizes (raw binary data)
  
  

Other Concepts

• New Millenium Program's Earth Observer 3 (NMP-EO3) step-1 proposal by NASA-GSFC for a large aperture imager in geosynchronous orbit, a technology demonstration for earth and space science, aka "HORIZON"
  • Horizon concept movie (66 Mbyte QT)
• New Millenium Program's Earth Observer 3 (NMP-EO3) concept proposal by NASA-GSFC for a large aperture thermal imager, aka "REDEYE"
• New Millenium Program's Earth Observer 3 (NMP-EO3) proposal by NASA-LaRC for a high-resolution infrared sounder, aka "GIFTS"
• MITRE's plan for geo-imagers on non-dedicated satellites, 1993
• DOE's Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI)
• AVSAT - a color TV camera in a small satellite that could fly in geosynchronous orbit
• In the late 1960's and early 1970's, NASA contracted for five Hughes Corp. Applications Technology Satellites (ATS), which flew the first color cameras in geosynchronous orbit. In 1999, JT Young at the University of Wisconsin digitized the ATS-3 color photos from 1967, making possible the first day-long color QuickTime movie of the Earth, taken on 18 November 1967.
• Earth On Line (EOL) concept video for methods of making full-earth images to the public on the Web.
• Vice-President Gore's Earth-Span proposal, March 1998, and NASA's subsequent Announcement of Opportunity, which eventually became the Triana project.
• Apprently, earth-viewing telesopes go far back into history, with the Renaissance model shown at the National Geographic Gallery, item 5 in hall II.