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Map showing the geographical coverage of the GOES East and West satellites. (NOAA) (Image credit: NOAA/NESDIS)
NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) provides near real-time access to GOES-R data via cloud partners Google, Microsoft and Amazon. The GOES-18 satellite, launched on March 1, 2022, is noted to assume its GOES-West role (at 137.0° West) and will be declared as an operational satellite on January 4, 2023. The GOES-R program plans to shut down GOES-17 instruments on January 4, 2023 and GOES-17 will shift to ~105° West, where it will be in on-orbit storage.
After GOES-18 assumes GOES-West position in January 2023, all data files will be deemed both operational and Provisional, so no ‘preliminary, non-operational’ caveat is needed. Users should note that imagery from GOES-18 during the post-launch testing phase should still be considered preliminary and non-operational.
GOES-18 DATA VIA THE CLOUD
NODD currently makes available GOES-18 provisional data accessible through the three NODD cloud platforms in near real-time for public access and free egress1. NODD will continue to provide cloud based access to GOES-18 data when deemed operational in January 2023.
GOES-18, and other GOES-R data, can be accessed via the NODD cloud partners at the following locations:
Amazon Web Services offsite link; Microsoft Planetary Computer offsite link or access through the Azure Storage Explorer offsite link (goeseuwest.blob.core.windows.net/noaa-goes18); Google Cloud Marketplace offsite link.
NODD will continue to provide GOES-16 and 17 data until there is no longer an operational or research need for these datasets.
MORE ABOUT GOES-18
Product documentation and additional materials are available at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) website.
We invite users to read more about the GOES-18 transition by visiting the following: GOES-R Satellite Transition Plans; NOAA NESDIS website and the NESDIS News and Events page.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about GOES-18 data use and policy, please reach out to stephen.superczynski@noaa.gov
For questions regarding cloud access to GOES-R, including the new GOES-18 data, please email the NODD Team at nodd.support@noaa.gov.
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1As with all GOES satellites, L1b and L2+ GOES-18 products will be archived in the NOAA Comprehensive Large Array-Data Stewardship System (CLASS).