GOES-13 is currently in Autumn Eclipse Season, when the Earth-Satellite-Sun geometry means that solar energy can reach the satellite sensors directly. NOAA NESDIS has software to mitigate the effects of Stray Light in the Sensor Processing System (SPS) that transforms the raw GOES Imager data to navigated and calibrated (GVAR)... Read More
The GOES-13 (GOES-East) Sounder instrument has been experiencing data anomalies that manifest themselves as missing pixels (link, link). These errors occurred because of slight fluctuations in the speed of the sounder filter wheel, resulting in a time offset. Processing software expects the data to be present... Read More
Tests are underway this week to determine the impact of augmented GOES-13 (GOES-East) imager coverage. The animation above shows the coverage for routine scanning on 3 March 2014 between 1645 UTC and 1945 UTC. CONUS, Extended Northern Hemisphere and Full Disk images are included. The Optimized GOES-East schedule is available... Read More
A GOES-13 (GOES-East) North/South Station Keeping maneuver was performed on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, beginning 1145 UTC, and ending at 1945 UTC (Link). During this time, the navigation of the satellite degraded mostly in the north-south direction. At 1945 UTC, after the maneuver ended, the navigation snapped back to normal.... Read More
