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Carr, J. L., J. Daniels, D. Wu, W. Bresky, and B. A. Tan (2024), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). Carr Astronautics, 6404 Ivy Lane, Suite 333, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20770, US, Demonstration of Three-Satellite Stereo Winds. Remote Sens., 14, 5290, doi:10.3390/rs14215290.
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Stereo tracking of clouds from multiple satellites permits the simultaneous retrieval of an atmospheric motion vector (“wind”) and its height in the atmosphere. The direct measurement of height is a major advantage of stereo methods over observations made from a single satellite where the height must be inferred from infrared brightness temperatures. A pair of operational geostationary satellites over the Americas provides stereo coverage where their two fields of view intersect. Stereo coverage can be extended to nearly a full hemisphere with a third satellite. We demonstrate this configuration with the operational GOES-R constellation of GOES-16 (east) and GOES-17 (west) augmented by GOES-18 in its central test slot and use the 500-m resolution Advanced Baseline Imager Band 2. We examine the consistency of the pairwise products created from GOES-18 and -16 versus GOES-18 and -17 and create a fused triple-GOES product that spans nearly the full hemisphere seen from GOES-18. We also examine the retrieval of ground points observed under clear skies and compare their retrievals to zero speed and known terrain heights. The results are compatible with a wind accuracy about 0.1 m/s with height assignment uncertainty of 175 m.

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