GOES-H to GOES-R became GOES-7 to GOES-16 (skipping GOES-Q, which was not built). The satellite’s ABI will scan each of these regions once per minute, or it can scan one region every 30 seconds. GOES-East 14 km VIS/IR2. HTML5 Loop; Latest Image; 4 Wk Archive; GOES-East 14 km Water Vapor. Please visit our GOES-16 Loop of the Day page. Large-area Visible/IR2 and Water Vapor. Beyond that, there is no difference in the products themselves between mesoscale imagery and CONUS imagery. Both GOES-East and GOES-West are capable of having up to two mesoscale scanning regions. Satellite images : GOES East - Full disk - visible. Selected GOES-16 sectors of interest are available below, but every pixel of GOES-16 imagery is available in SLIDER. Infrared, visible and water vapor images are generated every 30 minutes with a resolution of 4-8 Km. GOES-8 data have been processed from June 1998 to December 2002 and the annual degradation rate obtained during this period is 4.0%. HTML5 Loop; Latest Image NOAA GOES East Satellite Captures the First Images from Space of Gigantic Jet Lightning. March 23, 2018. GOES East Full disk: Infrared, visible and water vapor images are generated every 30 minutes with a resolution of 4-8 Km.

GOES-17 joins GOES-16, in operations as NOAA’s GOES East, in delivering high-resolution visible and infrared imagery and lightning observations of more than half the globe – from the west coast of Africa to New Zealand and from near the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Circle.

The image above shows a comparison in the optical energy from GLM and the camera on the ground.

This results in satellite imagery that can update faster than most weather radars! These are GOES-East and GOES-West, which watch the eastern and western halves of the U.S., respectively. Meteosat and GOES-East data corresponding to homogenous pixels along longitude 37.5°W and around 1200 LST have been compared on a monthly basis, leading to a calibration of GOES-East visible channel. Once operational, the different locations used by the satellites are given a name corresponding to the regions they cover. GOES East and West Imager data is used to produce synoptic scale standard sectors of imagery.