GOES Satellite Data Description

GOES Satellite Data Data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) available from Unidata include 5 wavelength channels for GVAR (e.g., GOES-15) and 16 channels for GOES-R (e.g., GOES-16) class satellites. Data from both GOES-East and GOES-West satellites are available.

More information on GOES data collection

Data Capabilities

Remote Data Access Data Coverage Display & Analysis Options
LDM Feedtype1
McIDAS ADDE
TDS
Short-Term Archive
 Regional National Hemispheric Global GEMPAK IDV McIDAS AWIPS
UNIWISC (FT5, MCIDAS) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
NIMAGE (FT21, IMAGE)2 ✓ East
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West		 East
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West		 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SATELLITE (FT16, DIFAX)3 ✓ East
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West		 East
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West		 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

1 See a complete list of LDM feed types
2 The NIMAGE feed type (FT21) was enhanced to include NOAAPort GOES-R/S ABI imagery and other Level2 products in June, 2019
3 The SATELLITE feed type (FT16) is named DIFAX in LDM v6.13.6 and previous