The image below was captured earlier today from the EQS-G1 (formerly GOES 13) weather satellite. Looking closely there is what looks to be a large area of land, highlighted by the yellow box, south of India. There is clearly a…
I’ve just started to tweet videos showing the last three days from different satellites so I was intently watching what they looked like to ensure that everything was working perfectly. But the GOES 17 video looked a bit odd. I’m…
Whilst making some changes to some of the GK-2A code I noticed a new directory and file that I’d never seen before. Looking back, I noticed a few other similar downloaded files. So the question was what was it. The…
Before GOES 17 took over as GOES West, GOES 15 was the previous GOES West satellite. It is still in orbit and it is effectively on standby in case there are issues with one of the current satellites, GOES East…
As I’ve previously posted, I’ve some automated watchdog code which looks for when something isn’t quite right with the capture and processing of satellite images. This results in a few emails a month at the most, so whilst nothing unusual,…