The images and other products displayed on this site have been recieved over the air from the GOES-17 (GOES West) geostationary weather satellite via the HRIT service.
The HRIT service includes rebroadcast products from other weather satellites, including GOES-16 (GOES East), GOES-15 (The previous generation GOES West satellite), and Himawari-8 (A Japanese geostationary weather satellite that covers the western Pacific).
The reciever station consists of a 1700Mhz grid dish antenna, a SAWbird+ GOES LNA and Preamp, and a RTL SDR reciever. The reciever is plugged into a Raspberry Pi 3B+ which runs the goesrecv application available as part of the goestools utilities.
GOES-16 and GOES-17 are new GOES-R series satellites with enhanced imaging capabilities, which includes a large number of imaging channels. Not all channels may be in use at a given time. This table describes the channels available. More information about the bands can be found here.
| Channel | Light Band | Description |
| 01 | Visible | Blue |
| 02 | Visible | Red |
| 03 | Near IR | Vegetation |
| 04 | Near IR | Cirrus |
| 05 | Near IR | Snow/Ice |
| 06 | Near IR | Cloud Particle |
| 07 | IR | Shortwave |
| 08 | IR | Water Vapor - Upper |
| 09 | IR | Water Vapor - Mid |
| 10 | IR | Water Vapor - Lower |
| 11 | IR | Cloud Top Phase |
| 12 | IR | Ozone |
| 13 | IR | Clean Longwave |
| 14 | IR | Longwave |
| 15 | IR | Dirty Longwave |
| 16 | IR | CO2 Longwave |
Images are available as Full Disk views of the earth, or two "mesoscale" regions which are zoomed in regions NOAA can aim anywhere within the full disk to get higher resolution data on specific weather events.
GOES-15 is from the previous generation of NOAA's geostationary weather satellites, and previously occupied the position at GOES-West. Selected products from this older generation satellite are temporarily being relayed through GOES-17 for a transition period. Note that GOES-15 has significantly fewer imaging bands available, and lower resolution. It has however been moved to an orbital location more east of GOES-17, which provides a view of the continental US between GOES-West and GOES-East.
Himawari-8 is a Japanese geostationary satellite with similar capabilities to the modern GOES-R series satellites. As it covers much of the western and central Pacific, selected image products from Himawari-8 are relayed through GOES-17.
EMWIN - Emergency Managers Weather Information Network - provides a number of text and small image products. Along with the NWS - National Weather Service - products, forecasts, conditions, and much more weather specific data is available based on type or geographic region.