GOES-R ABI-RGB Evaluation - Operations Proving Ground

GOES-R ABI-RGB Evaluation

In March and April of 2016, the National Weather Service (NWS) Operations Proving Ground (OPG) hosted and facilitated three week-long Operational Impact Evaluation (OIE) sessions where NWS forecasters evaluated applications of multiple spectral bands for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R-series era. These evaluations focused on forecasters’ ability to accomplish various analysis and forecasting tasks by correctly using and interpreting imagery from fifteen spectral bands and several red-green-blue (RGB) composites, all of which will be available when GOES-R becomes operational. Click on the pictures below for full report document.