GOES-R SERIES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Instrument Calibration Data

The Advanced Baseline Imager is the primary instrument on the GOES-R Series for imaging Earth's weather, climate, and environment. The ABI observes the Earth at 16 different spectral bands, including two visible channels, four near-infrared channels, and ten infrared channels. The products generated from ABI observations provides spatial resolutions between 0.5 and 2.0 km. Forecasters use these high resolution images to track the development of storms in their early stages. The GOES-R Series ABI is used for a wide range of applications related to weather, oceans, land, climate, and hazards (fires, volcanoes, hurricanes, and storms that spawn tornados). The ABI has three scan modes that produce imagery data. The continuous full disk mode (Mode 4) provides uninterrupted scans of the full disk every 5 minutes. Mode 3 concurrently allows full disk imagery every 15 minutes, the continental US (CONUS) every 5 minutes, and two interleaved mesoscale regions with each viewed every 60 seconds. And Mode 6 scans the full disk every 10 minutes, CONUS every 5 minutes, and mesoscale regions every 60 seconds. The ABI is calibrated to an accuracy of 3% (1 σ) radiance for visible and nearinfrared wavelengths. For infrared channels, the ABI is accurate to 1K (1 σ) at 300K. The Instrument Calibration Data product contains the data needed to evaluate, monitor, and trend sensor performance.

Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) L0 data is comprised of unprocessed science
data packets and telemetry packets. All science data and most telemetry data is sourced by the ABI instrument. L0 data includes select spacecraft telemetry in addition to instrument telemetry. ABI L0 data also includes orbit and attitude data and angular rate telemetry data (OAR), containing orbit ephemeris and satellite position.