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