The most common scanning strategy for GOES-R satellites since GOES-16 became operational has been “Flex” Mode, Mode 3: During each 15 minutes, 1 full disk, 3 CONUS and 30 Mesoscale scans are achieved (Link showing Mode 3 Scanning. This YouTube Video shows Mode 3 Scanning with two adjacent mesoscale sectors). (Mode 4 — continuous 5-minute full disk imagery... Read More
Geo2grid is a python-based software package that creates GeoTIFF imagery from native Himawari or GOES-16/GOES-17 imagery, as noted here. This blog post documents how to use the geo2grid software to create stereoscopic imagery, using either a Himawari-8/GOES-17 pairing, or a GOES-16/GOES-17 pairing. This requires first a remapping of the imagery to a fixed domain; when... Read More
Very strong winds over the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico (associated with the extraordinary blizzard to the north) helped quickly spread a Grass Fire that developed over north Texas, north of Amarillo. (Tweet from NWS Amarillo is here). GOES-17’s Mesoscale Sector 1 was over the southern Plains, and viewed the fire development in... Read More
SSEC and CIMSS have released a processing package that converts GOES-R Level-1b Radiance files to full-resolution imagery. Geo2Grid is part of the CSPP-Geo package and offers a flexible scriptable method to convert data into imagery. It can be downloaded at this site (Free registration may be required). Documentation is available at... Read More
