Sensors and Imagers Improve Short-Term Weather Forecasts

Advanced Baseline Imager & sounder instruments
ITT Space Systems Division
Rochester, NY
585-269-5600
http://www.ssd.itt.com

Imager and sounder instruments
designed and built by ITT Space
Systems Division were launched last
June aboard the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Geostationary Operational Environ -
mental Satellite-O (GOES-O). These
core instruments provide crucial data to
the National Weather Service for severe
weather forecasting. Images from the
weather satellite instruments are used
for tracking and forecasting hurricanes
and other severe weather.

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