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Other GOES Resources

We share these GOES resources as a courtesy to users. Some are managed by NOAA and are identified as such. Others are managed by NASA, Cooperative Institutes, and affiliated university research programs. Still others are completely separate from NOAA or STAR. All are offered without warranty or any guarantee of uptime, in order to share valuable GOES-related content and research tools with the widest community of interested users.

U.S. image resources

NOAA / NASA / U.S. Government Sites
CONUS and Full Disk images
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Colorado State University
Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch / Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
RAMMB Sliderthis link opens in a new window
SLIDR is a customizable viewer for satellite imagery including GOES East and GOES 17 along with other satellites and data products
GOES-16 imagery (CIRA)this link opens in a new window
Mesoscale sectors plus Colorado and Central Plains
CIRA Loop of the Daythis link opens in a new window
University of Wisconsin
SSEC Geo Browserthis link opens in a new window
Viewer includes GOES East and GOES-17, all bands, along with other satellites; both static and animation downloads available
Real Earth Viewerthis link opens in a new window
GOES East and GOES-17 full disk, CONUS, and mesoscale sectors, exports animations as gif or mp4 files
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Imagesthis link opens in a new window
GOES-16 CONUS and selected sectors for Wisconsin and the midwest
Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) GeoSpherethis link opens in a new window
GOES-16 imagery projected onto a map viewer platform, hosted at the University of Wisconsin - SSEC
College of DuPage
NEXLAB Experimental Satellite Viewerthis link opens in a new window
GOES-16 - Global, CONUS, Mesoscale, and other regional sectors, all channels, downloadable animation files
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach Meteorology
GOES-16 Viewerthis link opens in a new window - basic selection of sectors and bands

Outside the U.S. image resources

Meteo-Chile
GOES-16 Images & Products for Chilethis link opens in a new window
16 bands, RGB images over Chile and 1-page band fact sheets. (Spanish and English)
Brazil's Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies
(Portuguese and English)
CPTEC main sitethis link opens in a new window
GOES East Image Viewer & Animationsthis link opens in a new window
all ABI bands in animation over South America
Environment Canada
Selected sectors and channels over Canadathis link opens in a new window (English and French)
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional of Mexico
Images and animations for selected channelsthis link opens in a new window (English and Spanish)
National Laboratory of Earth Observation - Mexico
Views of Mexico, various sectors, animationsthis link opens in a new window (English and Spanish)
NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SpoRT)
GLM realtime data (NASA SPORT)
University of Wisconsin SSEC
Real Earth - GLM and ABI realtime data for groupsthis link opens in a new window
University of Maryland - CICS
Geostationary Lightning Mapper - Virtual lab
University of Maryland GLM Imagerythis link opens in a new window
Weathernerds (privately operated site)
Visual and GLM displaythis link opens in a new window - user can save animated gifs and single images
NOAA / NESDIS / STAR
STAR GOES Calibration
University of Wisconsin CIMSS
Simultaneously review all 16 channels in Full Disk and CONUSthis link opens in a new window
GOES Spectral Response Functionsthis link opens in a new window  Plots and files for GOES-16 and other GOES
GOES-16 ABI Weighting Functionsthis link opens in a new window - both static and real-time
GOES-16 & GOES-17 comparison statisticsthis link opens in a new window - all 16 ABI bands

University of Wisconsin SSEC

McIDAS
McIDAS-Vthis link opens in a new window
Free, open source software for 3D geophysical data analysis and visualization
Satellite Information Familiarization Tool (SIFT)
Download - FTP sitethis link opens in a new window
More infothis link opens in a new window
HYperspectral-viewer for Development of Research Applications (HYDRA)
Project information - FTP sitethis link opens in a new window (ftp)
Download software - FTP sitethis link opens in a new window (ftp)
CIMSS / SSEC - Community Satellite Processing Package for Geostationary Data
Information and downloadthis link opens in a new window - for use with local GRB ingest

Other contributors

University of Utah
Python notebook displaying ABI data
Github downloadthis link opens in a new window
GEONETCast Americas - GNC-a
GOES-16 Manipulation Toolsthis link opens in a new window
Environmental Data Commons - Open Commons Consortium
Manipulating GOES-16 with GDALthis link opens in a new window
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ncview: a netCDF visual browser
Details and downloadthis link opens in a new window
UCAR - Unidata - Data Services and Tools for Data Science
Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)this link opens in a new window
University of Wisconsin SSEC GOES App
iOSthis link opens in a new window
Androidthis link opens in a new window
SSEC Real Earth Apps
Real Earth apps - both iOS and Androidthis link opens in a new window
WxSat
WxSat Androidthis link opens in a new window
Optimized for global viewing of the three basic weather satellite channels
MapSat (CPTEC/INPE) - Brazil
Detailsthis link opens in a new window
Google Play downloadthis link opens in a new window
University of Wisconsin CIMSS Resources
GOES-R Education Proving Groundthis link opens in a new window
GOES-R Series Countdown Calendarthis link opens in a new window for Educators
GOES-16 First Light RGB interactivesthis link opens in a new window
SUVIthis link opens in a new window First Light RGB
GOES-R/16 Fact Sheetsthis link opens in a new window with both pre-launch and post-launch information
GOES East and Roof Top Camerasthis link opens in a new window - SSEC in Madison, WI
CIMSS Satellite Blogthis link opens in a new window - interesting images, explanations of underlying science, meteorology
CIMSS GOES-R Fog Products Blogthis link opens in a new window
RAMMB / CIRA at Colorado State University - Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT)
More GOES-R/16 Fact Sheetsthis link opens in a new window
GOES-R VISIT Foundational Coursethis link opens in a new window
University of Wisconsin - CIMSS SSEC
Soundings Validation Toolthis link opens in a new window
TPW, stability parameters, etc. - (provisional)
NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring Web Portalthis link opens in a new window (research)
NOAA/CIMSS ProbSeverethis link opens in a new window
A statistical model that predicts the probability that a storm will produce severe weather in the near-term (research site)
University of Utah
Fires Viewerthis link opens in a new window
Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
NOAA / NESDIS / STAR
Aerosol Watch
Colorado State University - RAMMB
Real-Time Tropical Cyclone Products - Currently Active Tropical Cyclonesthis link opens in a new window
GOES-16 Imagery and Loopsthis link opens in a new window