Recent GOES Full Disk Images
this page last updated 20 July 2007

NOAA broadcasts a GOES full-disk scan once every 3 hours. An automated site at NASA-GSFC captures them, converts the GOES satellite data into images, and puts the digital pictures on the web. This page links to those full-disk pictures of the Earth in several formats, enhancements, and resolutions. For full-resolution images of small sectors, see the links on the GOES Project Science Page.

COLORFUL GOES-EAST PICTURES
(1200 pixels by 1000 lines, JPEG compressed, ~0.2 MByte downloads)
Red = visible channel, Green = 11 micron infrared channel, Blue = 4 micron infrared channel.
COLORFUL GOES-WEST PICTURES
(1200 pixels by 1000 lines, JPEG compressed, ~0.2 MByte downloads)
Red = visible channel, Green = 11 micron infrared channel, Blue = 4 micron infrared channel.
RECENT GOES-EAST IMAGES
(1200 pixels by 1000 lines, greyscale TIFF format, ~0.5 MB LZW-compressed downloads)
NOTE: "IR4" is the thermal infrared image, which lets you see the entire Earth by its own glow at any time of day.
RECENT GOES-WEST IMAGES
(1200 pixels by 1000 lines, greyscale TIFF format, ~0.5 MB LZW-compressed downloads)
NOTE: "IR4" is the thermal infrared image, which lets you see the entire Earth by its own glow at any time of day.
FTP: GOES-EAST HIGH-RESOLUTION RAW DATA
(FTP instead of HTTP is recommended to download large files.)
(IR 3300 pixels by 3002 lines -> ~4 MB LZW-compressed downloads) (VIS 13200 pixels by 12008 lines -> ~60 MB LZW-compressed downloads)
HINT: this data is best rendered using an image application instead of a browser.
FTP: GOES-WEST HIGH-RESOLUTION RAW DATA
(FTP instead of HTTP is recommended to download large files.)
(IR 3300 pixels by 3002 lines -> ~4 MB LZW-compressed downloads)) (VIS 13200 pixels by 12008 lines -> ~60 MB LZW-compressed downloads)
HINT: this data is best rendered using an image application instead of a browser.

TECH NOTE 1: Local midnight and noontime roll-overs occur several hours into Universal Time (UTC, aka GMT, aka Z, aka Greenwich time, aka London time):
midnight EST = 1 am EDT = 0500 UTC; noon EST = 1 pm EDT = 1700 UTC
midnight CST = 1 am CDT = 0600 UTC; noon CST = 1 pm CDT = 1800 UTC
midnight MST = 1 am MDT = 0700 UTC; noon MST = 1 pm MDT = 1900 UTC
midnight PST = 1 am PDT = 0800 UTC; noon PST = 1 pm PDT = 2000 UTC

TECH NOTE 2: Most of our files have time-stamp names in odometer-style Universal Time, "YYMMDDhhmmSatChan.TYPE".
For example, "0312311745G08I01.TIFF" is decoded as:
- year = 03 (2003)
- month = 12 (December)
- day = 31 (the 31st of the month)
- hour = 17 (12 noon + 5 pm Universal Time in London, England)
- minutes = 45 (:45 minutes after the hour)
- Satellite = G12 (GOES-12, aka GOES-EAST)
- Channel = I01 (Imager channel 1, aka visible)
- Type = TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

GOES Project Science Page

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Please give credit for the satellite images to:
"NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES"

NASA Official: Dennis.Chesters@nasa.gov

Recent GOES Full Disk Images this page last updated 20 July 2007

Recent GOES Full Disk Images
this page last updated 20 July 2007