SSEC forums

GOES-19 is scheduled to become operational on April 4, 2025, replacing GOES-16 as the GOES-East satellite. GOES-19 is already supported in several CSPP Geo software packages (GRB, Geo2Grid, AXI Tools). No software update will be needed for these packages in order to process GOES-19 data. However, pl...

A change in the GOES-R ground system is planned for March 1, 2023, which is expected to result in occasional data loss in products generated by CSPP Geo GRB software. Users are advised to review the information below and consider making a software configuration change to mitigate potential data loss...

Dear Colleagues, The CSPP Geo Team is pleased to announce that the GEOCAT Version 1.1 Beta1 software package is now available for download. The main new feature in this release is added support for Himawari-9, which will become operational on 13 December 2022, according to information from JMA . Cap...

A user reported an issue with AITF v2 beta4 that may cause ancillary data downloads to fail. The problem was indicated by "CRITICAL ERROR: Downloading dynamic data failed" and "TimeLimit expired" messages in output from the `aitf` and `aitf-update-cache` scripts. The problem was ...

The DO 09.02/03 update to the GOES-R Series Ground System is planned for Oct 27, 2020, per ESPC notification: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2020/MSG297215406.html . Based on test data that was provided by the GOES-R Program, it has been determined that no updates are needed for the CSPP Ge...

The DO 09.01 update to the GOES-R Series Ground System is planned for Sep 2, 2020, per ESPC notification: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2020/MSG210132401.html . Based on test data that was provided by the GOES-R Program, it has been determined that no updates are needed for the CSPP Geo GR...

The DO 09.00 update to the GOES-R series Ground System is planned for Feb 18, 2020. Based on test data that was provided by the GOES-R Program, it has been determined that no updates are needed for CSPP Geo software in connection with this Ground System update. CSPP Geo software should continue to f...

Note: No action is required for users who are not interested in MAG products or SUVI FITS files. The following issues were observed in CSPP Geo GRB processing following the DO.08.01 update to the GOES-R ground system, which occurred on Sept 26 during the 1500z hour. - Invalid MAG products are genera...

Hi John,

Yes, there is a beta version of the GEOCAT package that is available upon request. To obtain the beta, please email the CSPP Geo team at csppgeo.issues@ssec.wisc.edu.

The target release date for GEOCAT 1.0 is now December 2019.

Graeme

Dear Colleagues, The CSPP Geo team is pleased to announce that the AIT Framework Version 1.0 software package is now available for download. The software is capable of processing ABI Level 1B calibrated radiance data from GOES-16 and generating Level 2 geophysical products. Input can be obtained fro...