Data from NOAA’s GOES-R series satellite is available on Amazon S3. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operates a constellation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) to provide continuous weather imagery and monitoring of meteorological and space environment data for the protection of life and property across the United States. GOES satellites provide critical atmospheric, oceanic, climatic and space weather products supporting weather forecasting and warnings, climatologic analysis and prediction, ecosystems management, safe and efficient public and private transportation, and other national priorities.
The satellites provide advanced imaging with increased spatial resolution, 16 spectral channels, and up to 1 minute scan frequency for more accurate forecasts and timely warnings.
The real-time feed and full historical archive of original resolution Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) radiance data (Level 1b) and full resolution Cloud and Moisture Imager (CMI) products (Level 2) are freely available on Amazon S3 for anyone to use.
While the GOES-16 ABI L1b and CMI data have reached provisional validation, please keep in mind that since GOES-16 satellite has not been declared operational, its data are still considered preliminary and undergoing testing.
The availability of GOES-R Series on AWS data is the result of the NOAA Big Data Project (BDP) to explore the potential benefits of storing copies of key observations and model outputs in the Cloud to allow computing directly on the data without requiring further distribution. Such an approach could help form new lines of business and economic growth while making NOAA’s data more easily accessible to the American public.
This page includes information on data structure; you can find much more detailed information about GOES-R Series data from NOAA.
Examples of how to access the objects via the AWS CLI can be seen below.
aws s3 ls goesingest
aws s3 cp s3://goesingest/<Filename>
Data will be moved to different Amazon S3 storage classes on a schedule. It will start in Standard and move to Infrequent Access after 30 days.
All data files from GOES-16 (formerly GOES-R) are provided in netCDF4 format. The GOES-16 data is hosted in the goesingest Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 AWS region. Individual files are availabe in the netCDF format.
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OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M3C02_G16_s20171671145342_e20171671156109_c20171671156144.nc
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OR: Operational system real-time dataABI-L1b-RadF-M3C02 is delineated by hyphen ‘-’:
ABI is ABI SensorL1b is processing level, L1b data or L2Rad is radiances. Other products include CMIP (Cloud and Moisture Imagery products) and MCMIP (multichannel CMIP).F is full disk (normally every 15 minutes), C is continental U.S. (normally every 5 minutes), M1 and M2 is Mesoscale region 1 and region 2 (usually every minute each)M3 is mode 3 (scan operation), M4 is mode 4 (only full disk scans every five minutes – no mesoscale or CONUS)C02 is channel or band 02, There will be sixteen bands, 01-16G16 is satellite id for GOES-16 (future G17)s20171671145342 is start of scan time
e20171671156109 is end of scan timec20171671156144 is netCDF4 file creation time.nc is netCDF file extensionIf you have questions about the data, you can find contact information at https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/.
There are no restrictions on the use of this data.