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***** NOTICE *****
ON TUESDAY...APRIL 1...2003 AT APPROXIMATELY 1815Z
GOES-12...FORMERLY KNOWN AS GOES-M...REPLACES GOES-8 AS THE
OPERATIONAL GOES EAST SATELLITE.
ONCE ACTIVATED AS GOES EAST...GOES-12 WILL OPERATE ACCORDING
TO THE GOES EAST SCHEDULES AND SCANNING STRATEGIES. ESSENTIALLY
GOES-12 WILL OPERATE AS GOES-8 PRESENTLY DOES.
THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES IN THE GOES-8 AND GOES-12 IMAGER
INSTRUMENTS. THESE CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEB PAGE...ALL LOWER CASE.
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/goes-calibration/change-channels.htm
ADDITIONALLY...A DESCRIPTION OF THE GOES EAST IMAGERY SECTORS AND
DATA FORMATS APPEARS IN THE...ICD FOR AWIPS-NESDIS...AVAILABLE FROM
http://205.156.54.206/noaaport/html/refs.shtml ...ALL LOWER CASE...
THIS ICD WAS UPDATED TO INCLUDE INFORMATION ON THE GOES-12 SECTORS.
ONE POINT...ALTHOUGH GOES-12 WILL INITIALLY HAVE RSO CAPABILITIES.
IT WILL // NOT // HAVE SRSO CAPABILITY UNTIL 04/26/03 ONCE
GOES-12 IS STOPPED AT 75W.
WHITMORE/SDM/NCO/NCEP
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