“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
That’s a clear prescription for disaster.”
Carl Sagan

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Online Satellite Imagery and Information

• RealEarth™ is a data discovery and visualization platform developed at SSEC/CIMSS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support the outreach and collaboration efforts of scientists.
• Beginner’s Guide to GOES-R Series Data How to acquire, analyze, and visualize GOES-R Series data.
• GOES-R SERIES DOCUMENTS – The GOES-R series Documents and PUGS
• The Geostationary Weather Satellite Group on Facebook.
• Stuff in Space A Graphical Representation of the stuff in orbit.
• Celestrack Cesium A graphical tracking page.
• WxSatS A very cool view from a weather satellite perspective.
• SatNOGS Network
• POES Operational Status – POES Status – OSPO
• SOLARHAM.com | Solar Cycle 25 | Space Weather Website
• ForWarn II is a US Forest Service satellite-mapping tool if you’re interested in tracking vegetation changes caused by wildfires, flooding, tornados, severe weather, insects, diseases, and human-induced disturbances.
• GOES Imagery Viewer – NOAA / NESDIS / STAR
• ABI Meso-scale location search function from the SSEC Data center for GOES-East and -West over their operational lifetimes.
• GOES Data – A big list by SSEC/CIMSS. The GOTO for all things GOES by the University of Wisconsin – Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) ~ The Birthplace of Satellite Meteorology ~This site has A LOT of information, data, imagery, etc. Including a section on free software for image manipulation, data analysis, phone apps, and more!
• GOES HRIT Schedules (this is what you can download off your dish.
• GOES-16 Band Reference Guide (PDF) So, what is Band 15, and why is it ‘Dirty’?
• ABI BANDS QUICK INFORMATION GUIDES These include two visible channels, four near-infrared channels, and ten infrared channels. Each fact sheet covers what the band measures and how this is operationally relevant. The fact sheets also include links for more information.
• GOES GRB Schedules (you’ll need a bigger dish!)

User Groups and Forums

• Geo-Stationary Facebook Satellite Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/gswsg Facebook Group for Geo-Stationary Weather Satellites
• GOESTools Users https://groups.google.com/g/goestools-users A smaller group for people who use the software Goestools 
• GEO-Subscribers https://groups.io/g/GEO-Subscribers  The official group is for subscribers of the Group for Earth Observation (GEO)
• Amateur Satellite Group on Reddit  https://www.reddit.com/r/amateursatellites/ A subreddit dedicated to artificial satellites

Tools for finding satellite positions.

• Online Dish Pointer, Usradioguy
• Satellite Look Angle Calculator
• Dishpointer
• https://www.n2yo.com/
• Heavens Above
• Celestrack.com

Open Source Software

• Goestools https://github.com/pietern/goestools Tools to work with signals and files from GOES satellites.
• SATDUMP https://github.com/altillimity/  A multi-satellite decoder and image processor.
• GK-2A Decoder https://github.com/sam210723/xrit-rx LRIT/HRIT Downlink Processor for GK-2A
• Sanchez https://github.com/nullpainter/sanchez Designed for processing of greyscale IR images from geostationary satellites, can also be used to reproject full-color images.
• Vitality GOES https://github.com/JVital2013/vitality-goes A Web App for showcasing Geostationary Weather Satellite Data.
• Raydel XRIT Decoder http://www.geo-web.org.uk/XRITDecoder.php A software solution for decoding and extracting files from GOES LRIT/HRIT stream,
• CSPP Geo software https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/ Community Satellite Processing Package for Geostationary Data
• Geo2Grid Software Package
• XRIT Decoder Open Satellite Project https://github.com/opensatelliteproject/xritdemod
• Xplanet
• Grafana
• McIDAS-V (UW Madison)
• SIFT–Satellite Information Familiarization Tool (UW Madison)  More info
• Python notebook displaying ABI data from @blaylockbk
• SSEC’s HYDRA (use single or multi band CMIP files) Most recent version of the code
• GOES-16 Manipulation Tools from GNC-A
• Manipulating GOES-16 with GDAL from the OCC
• NCview a netCDF visual (quicklook) browser
• Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) (UNIDATA)
• Panoply from NASA Goddard.
• Pytroll GOES-16 ABI: Example
• ImageJ image manipulation.
• Software for Manipulating/Displaying NetCDF Data list from UNIDATA.
• Weather and Climate Toolkit (WCT) from NOAA/NCEI.
• Beginner’s Guide to GOES-R Series Data Resources compiled by Danielle Losos, GOES-R Product Readiness and Operations
• Google Earth Engine: CIMSS “True” Color multi-band example (2 km) and Level 2 Fire/Hot Spot Characterization by D. Losos and K. Schwehr.
  

Commercial Software

• XRIT Decoder for GOES https://usa-satcom.com/ XRIT Decoder (HRIT from GOES on L-Band), XView, WX Sandwich Maker
• GRB Play https://usa-satcom.com/ Processes NetCDF files for GOES GRB , does animations, Electron and X-Ray flux as well.
• SUVI Play https://usa-satcom.com/ Displays and does animations with CSPP GEO images from GOES GRB
• GRB Streamer and Imager– Bret Casebolt

GOES-16/17 ABI Info

• GOES-R Program the GOES-R Series Data Book and the GOES-R Series Book, including space wx (Elsevier)
• GOES-R Docs F&PS, ATBDs, PUGs, etc. ABI File name conventions
• NESDIS home page and the Product Quality overview page.
• GOES-R/16 tweets and GOES-S/17 tweets
• Pre-launch BAMS article on the ABI including ABI Band Table and ABI Guide
• ABI Mode 3 “cooling” timeline (G-17 only certain times) Mode Mode 3 (flex) Mode 4 (CFD) GOES-16 Mode 6a (w 10-min FD) GOES-17 Mode 6m (w 10-min FD)
• Post-launch NWA JOM article on the ABI including ABI Band Table
• Photons to Pixels article on the ABI
• Generation of GOES-16 True Color Imagery without a Green Band in AGU’s Earth and Space Science, including this figure
• GOES-R Series Publications List
• Recent / Planned ABI Meso-scale locations GOES Contacts e.g., email: SPSD.UserServices@noaa.gov and the meso-sector reposition priority list. NCO.
• ABI Meso-scale locations over the last year and more from the SSEC Data center the last year and more for GOES-East
• ABI Meso-scale location search function from the SSEC Data center for GOES-East and -West over their operational lifetimes
• GOES-East and GOES-West Meso-scale preview location tool from CIRA;  Default coverage/pixel size plots, West and East from CIMSS
• Special Bulletins/ General Messages regarding NOAA’s satellite operations.
• GRB ABI Schedules and HRIT ABI Schedules from NOAA’s satellite operations and contacts and Mesoscale Research Request form
• How to DIY and aquire HRIT and other signals by @carlreinemann
• SSEC ABI Monitoring page
• Big Ten Network on Geo Wx Satellites and 2017 Wednesday Nite at the Lab seminar on GOES-16
• Top 25 ABI Animations from GOES-16 and Top 25 ABI Animations from GOES-17
• Beginner’s Guide to GOES-R Series Data Resources compiled by Danielle Losos, GOES-R Product Readiness and Operations

Recommended Hardware Suppliers

• Nooelec
• RTL-SDR blog
• Airspy

Space Weather

• USRadioguys Space Weather Page
• GOES-R Series Space Weather Data
• GOES-16 SUVI imagery from the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).
• GOES-16 SUVI imagery from a DIY GRB receiving system by @wxstar3000 and @H_Neil and a RGB maker Art and Science together!
• GOES-16 SUVI First Light RGB-maker small and large.

History of GOES satellites

GOES-R Model, built from Paper!

Over on AXM PAPER SPACE SCALE MODELS BLOG they have a downloadable, printable model of the ATLAS V GOES-R EELV ROCKET and GOES-R PAPER MODEL. The Model of GOES-R is 1:35 scale, designed by Zach from Zach’s PaperSat Designs. The two pdf’s need are below:

• GOES-R Build ZIP file