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GOES-R field campaign 2017--Video Feature

With NOAA’s revolutionary GOES-16 weather satellite in space and data flowing, the GOES-R team, a joint NOAA and NASA effort, set out to fine-tune and validate the satellite’s earth viewing instruments during what was known as the GOES-16 Field Campaign.

During the two-month long campaign, teams of instrument scientists, meteorologists, and specialized pilots used a NASA high-altitude plane, ground-based sensors, and satellites to collect and compare measurements from across the United States. With life-saving warnings and revolutionary weather data on the line, NOAA’s newest and most advanced weather satellite must be as accurate as possible.

From arid deserts and areas of dense vegetation, to open oceans and storms exhibiting lightning activity, the measurements collected covered nearly everything NOAA’s GOES satellites see from their orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth. The data sets from the instruments and sensors will be analyzed and compared to validate and calibrate the GOES-16 satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper.

GOES-R Field Campaign 2017 -- Video Short #1

With NOAA’s revolutionary GOES-16 weather satellite in space and data flowing, the GOES-R team, a joint NOAA and NASA effort, set out to fine-tune and validate the satellite’s earth viewing instruments during what was known as the GOES-16 Field Campaign.

During the two-month long campaign, teams of instrument scientists, meteorologists, and specialized pilots used a NASA high-altitude plane, ground-based sensors, and satellites to collect and compare measurements from across the United States. With life-saving warnings and revolutionary weather data on the line, NOAA’s newest and most advanced weather satellite must be as accurate as possible.

From arid desserts and areas of dense vegetation, to open oceans and storms exhibiting lightning activity, the measurements collected covered nearly everything NOAA’s GOES satellites see from their orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth. The data sets from the instruments and sensors will be analyzed and compared to validate and calibrate the GOES-16 satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper.

GOES-R Field Campaign 2017 -- Video Short #2

With NOAA’s revolutionary GOES-16 weather satellite in space and data flowing, the GOES-R team, a joint NOAA and NASA effort, set out to fine-tune and validate the satellite’s earth viewing instruments during what was known as the GOES-16 Field Campaign.

During the two-month long campaign, teams of instrument scientists, meteorologists, and specialized pilots used a NASA high-altitude plane, ground-based sensors, and satellites to collect and compare measurements from across the United States. With life-saving warnings and revolutionary weather data on the line, NOAA’s newest and most advanced weather satellite must be as accurate as possible.

From arid desserts and areas of dense vegetation, to open oceans and storms exhibiting lightning activity, the measurements collected covered nearly everything NOAA’s GOES satellites see from their orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth. The data sets from the instruments and sensors will be analyzed and compared to validate and calibrate the GOES-16 satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper.

This narrated video presents high level goals and capabilites of the GOES-R spacecraft.

This is a narrated video presents high level goals and capabilites of the GOES-R spacecraft. This is the Spanish narrated version of the video.

Conceptual animation of the GOES-R spacecraft.

Conceptual animation of the GOES-R spacecraft. This animation depicts the spacecraft on orbit.

B-roll compilation of GOES-R spacecraft being unpacked and prepared for integration with its launch vehicle. This clean room is houses inside the Astrotech facility in Florida, near the Kennedy Space Center.

B-roll compilation showing transport of GOES-R satellite on an Air Force Galaxy C-5 from Buckley AFB in Colorado to NASA KSC in Florida.

B-roll compilation showing shipment of GOES-R satellite from Lockheed Martin facility near Denver Colorado to Buckley AFB for transport to NASA KSC.

The Hazardous Weather Testbed conducts research into forecasting techiques for predicting severe weather. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, this annual exercise brings together scientists and forecasters from around the country to advance the state of the art. This year, the project kept an eye on the future, too. The new GOES-R satellite is scheduled to take it's place in space in the next few years, and the new capabilities afforded by this advanced array of orbiting instruments will give ground based experts a whole new range of tools and capabilities.

GOES-R: Living With Space Weather

In addition to monitoring weather on Earth, the GOES-R satellites will monitor weather in space caused by electromagnetic radiation and charged particles released from solar storms on the Sun. Many people rely on space weather data, including pilots, farmers, satellite operators, electric power workers, and astronauts.

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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R Series (GOES-R) is the next generation of geostationary weather satellites. The GOES-R series satellites will provide continuous imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s Western Hemisphere and space weather monitoring to provide critical atmospheric, hydrologic, oceanic, climatic, solar and space data. This video is a short trailer that creates awareness about the upcoming GOES-R mission.

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ABI: The Future of Weather Monitoring

The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is the primary sensor on the new generation GOES satellites, GOES-R. ABI will have 16 spectral bands, which will contribute to a greater number of products and better data quality. ABI will track and monitor cloud formation, atmospheric motion, convection monitoring, land surface temperature, ocean dynamics, flow of water, fire, smoke, volcanic ash plume, aerosols and air quality, as well as vegetation health. With 5 times faster coverage rate and 4 times better spatial resolution ABI is poised to become a true success story, benefitting the public by providing critical data.

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GOES-R Beauty Pass

An artist concept of the GOES-R spacecraft in geostationary orbit seeing lightning from space. One of the newest features of GOES-R is the critical ability to measure and see in-cloud lightning. Thus increasing the tornado warning time.

In this video severe storm researcher and engineer Tim Samaras talks about his view on tornadoes and what remains to be understood. He also covers the importance of satellite imagery to his research.

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This short video features highlights from a live Nationwide broadcast that took place on April 3, 2012 from the studio of NASA Goddard TV. NOAA's Deputy Administrator and Chief Scientist Dr. Kathryn Sullivan and Severe Storm Chaser and Engineer Tim Samaras talk about an important new satellite, GOES-R, that will be able to see tornadoes like never before.

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Tornado season began rather early in 2012. The GOES satellites send valuable data to help meteorologists stay a step ahead of severe storms. This video shows satellite imagery from the March 2-3, 2012 tornado outbreak that damaged severely Henryville, Indiana.

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). GLM will collect information such as the frequency, location and extent of lightning discharges to identify intensifying thunderstorms and tropical cyclones.

The GOES-R series satellites will provide continuous imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s Western Hemisphere, total lightning data, and space weather monitoring to provide critical atmospheric, hydrologic, oceanic, climatic, solar and space data.

This short video describes the top level goals of the mission.

GOES-R will have a new instrument called Geostationary Lightning Mapper, or GLM. GLM will measure total lightning (in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground) activity continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions with near-uniform spatial resolution of approximately 10 km.

The GOES-R satellite will travel in space in a geosynchronous orbit, 22.300 miles above the equator. GOES-R will be called GOES-16 once on orbit and operational.

In addition to providing vital data for weather forecasts here on Earth, GOES-R will improve solar flare warnings for communications and navigation disruptions and enhance space weather monitoring.