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Operational Calibration of the Imagers and Sounders on the GOES-8 and -9 Satellites Michael Weinreb, Michael Jamieson, Nancy Fulton, Yen Chen, Joy Xie Johnson, James Bremer, Carl Smith, and Jeanette Baucom
ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION 2. INFRARED CALIBRATION DATA 3. INFRARED CALIBRATION EQUATIONS AT LAUNCH 4. REVISION FOR VARIATION IN SCAN-MIRROR EMISSIVITY 4.1 Generalized infrared calibration equations 4.2 Derivation of emissivities 5. NOISE SUPPRESSION IN IMAGER BLACKBODY CALIBRATIONS 6. PROCESSING OF VISIBLE-CHANNEL DATA 6.1 Normalization (destriping) 6.2 Relativization 6.3 Calibration 7. RETRANSMITTED (GVAR) DATA 7.1 Infrared-channel data 7.2 Visible-channel data 8. CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS APPENDIX A: INTERPRETATION OF INFRARED DATA IN GVAR REFERENCES Contact Michael P. Weinreb at michael.weinreb@noaa.gov Latest Revision: July 9, 1997 Home \| Operations \| News \| Daily Updates \| Info & History GOES \| POES \| DMSP \| Contact Us \| Internal Webmaster Privacy Policy