The launch of the first in a series of next generation GOES-R geostationary satellites is planned for no earlier than December 2014. New instruments include the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), a geostationary lightning mapper (GLM) and various space and solar instruments. These will provide increased accuracy at higher spatial and temporal resolution of the atmosphere, land, ocean, climate, space and solar environments.

Significant improvements are planned for the current suite of GOES-I/M re-broadcast data (GVAR), cloud and moisture imagery and quantitative products.

The ABI will provide full disk coverage at five minute intervals, and increased spatial resolution of 2km for the infrared bands and 0.5km for the visible band. The GLM will monitor global lightning strikes, while the solar and space environments will be observed by the Solar Imaging Suite (SIS), the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) and the GOES-R Magnetometer (MAG).

This presentation will provide an overview of the new and improved GOES-R product suite and the planned operational implementation schedule.