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.
Full Name
Advanced Baseline Imager
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Medium Heritage
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (vis/IR) 
Geometry
Instrument Technology
Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
NetCDF-4
Resolution
0.5 km in 0.64 µm band; 2.0 km in long wave IR and in the 1.378 µm band; 1.0 km in all others
[Best Resolution: 500m]
Accuracy
Varies by product
Waveband
16 bands in VIS, NIR and IR ranging from 0.47 µm to 13.3 µm
| VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm) |
| NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm) |
| SWIR (~1.3 µm - ~3.0 µm) |
| MWIR (~3.0 µm - ~6.0 µm) |
| TIR (~6.0 µm - ~15.0 µm) |
GOES-16 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 16 (2016 - 2033) |
| GOES-17 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 17 (2018 - 2030) |
| GOES-18 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 18 (2022 - 2038) |
| GOES-19 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 19 (2024 - 2033) |