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GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager visible near-infrared channel low-light signal-to-noise ratio
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2020
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Source: Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 14(2)
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Journal Title:Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
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Description:Quantifying Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-series (GOES-R) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Channel (Ch) 2 low-light signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a core ABI postlaunch product test to validate prelaunch performance expectations of this parameter. For GOES-16, an SNR analysis has been performed to accomplish this goal using ABI Mode-3 MESO visible near-infrared (VNIR) channel L1b radiance product images taken every 30 s between 17:00 UTC and 17:15 UTC on May 23, 2017. Scene pixel data used in the analysis are first screened to ensure they meet the low-light criteria and to minimize scene temporal variability associated with meteorological evolution and geolocation uncertainty in highly inhomogeneous scenes. After such screening, image-to-image radiance time difference statistics are compiled and analyzed to estimate instrument SNR. Based on GOES-R ABI vendor prelaunch testing, minimum and mean expected ABI Ch 2 postlaunch SNR performance at 5% albedo was estimated to be 44.2 and 64.5, respectively. Meanwhile, the SNR computed in this analysis is found to be about 57 ± 8. Thus, low-light SNR for ABI Ch 2 is shown to meet minimum user expectations. The analysis for the other five GOES-16 ABI VNIR channels is also shown to contrast the SNR for these channels
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Source:Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 14(2)
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