THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION, INSTRUMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY - GXI -

Full Name

GeoXO Imager

Status

Being developed

Instrument Agencies

NOAA

Maturity

Instrument Type

Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR)

Geometry

Earth disk scanning

Instrument Technology

Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer

Sampling

Imaging

Data Access

Open Access

Data Format

Measurements and Applications

Detects clouds, cloud properties, water vapour, land and sea surface temperatures, dust, aerosols, volcanic ash, fires, total ozone, snow and ice cover, vegetation index.

Resolution Summary

250 - 2000 m
[Best Resolution: 250m]

Swath Summary

Accuracy Summary

Waveband Summary

VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm)
NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm)

Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview

Category	Parameter
Aerosols	Aerosol optical depth (column/profile)
	Volcanic ash
Atmospheric Winds	Wind profile (horizontal)
Cloud particle properties and profile	Cloud liquid water (column/profile)
	Precipitation Profile (liquid or solid)
	Cloud ice content (at cloud top)
	Cloud drop effective radius
	Cloud optical depth
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	Cloud imagery
	Cloud type
	Cloud cover
	Cloud top height
	Cloud top temperature
Liquid water and precipitation rate	Precipitation intensity at the surface (liquid or solid)
	Precipitation index (daily cumulative)
Multi-purpose imagery (land)	Fire fractional cover
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	Ocean imagery and water leaving spectral radiance
Radiation budget	Downwelling (Incoming) solar radiation at TOA
	Downward short-wave irradiance at Earth surface
	Downward long-wave irradiance at Earth surface
Surface temperature (land)	Land surface temperature
	Fire temperature
Surface temperature (ocean)	Sea surface temperature

Thematic Links

Global Climate Observing System Essential Climate Variables (GCOS ECVs)

*ECV*	*Description*	*Product(s)*	*ECV Inventory 3.0 Record(s)*
Aerosols properties	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Cloud Properties	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Earth Radiation Budget	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Fire	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Land Surface Temperature	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Ocean Colour	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Precipitation	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Sea Surface Temperature	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Wind speed and direction (upper-air)	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records

Instrument Missions

Geo-I1 - Geostationary Extended Observations Imager 1 (2032 - 2055)

Geo-I2 - Geostationary Extended Observations Imager 2 (2034 - 2055)

Geo-I3 - Geostationary Extended Observations Imager 3 (2039 - 2055)

Geo-I4 - Geostationary Extended Observations Imager 4 (2042 - 2055)