Click on goes east band reference guide to find out the primary usage of each of the goes east bands.
Goes weather satellite receiver.
The audio from the receiver is fed into the line input of the computer sound card where it is saved as an audio file usually in wav format and then decoded into an image using.
West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern.
Building the raspberry pi noaa satellite station after building the station to receive the goes geostationary weather satellite constructing the noaa satellite station was a relative breeze.
The downconverter is outside next to the antenna.
The picture above is the indoor portion of the receiver setup.
The indoor portion is an fm receiver that receives a signal near 137 mhz.
In particular they send beautiful high resolution full disk images which show one side of the entire earth.
Thank you to carl reinemann for writing in and sharing his website that contains a few tips that he s learned when setting up an rtl sdr based receiver for goes 16 17 weather satellite image reception.
Goes east satellite loops images click on the links to view the images or loop for each available band and view static images will enlarge while loops will be shown on another tab.
The noaa series of satellites noaa 15 18 and 19 are much more similar to amateur satellites than the goes satellite they operate in the 137 mhz.
Image from a geostatioary weather satellite using system 5.
Goes weather facsimile wefax receiver this is a receiver i made to receive the weather facsimile wefax pictures transmitted by the goes satellite on 1691 mhz.
Click on a region to view images and animations for that region.
The geostationary operational environmental satellite goes operated by the united states national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa s national environmental satellite data and information service division supports weather forecasting severe storm tracking and meteorology research.
Over on twitter and his github io page pieter noordhuis pnoordhuis has shared details about his low cost rtl sdr based goes satellite receiving setup.
The final setup added a separate dish antenna and a separate receiver for reception of images from the meteosat satellites at geostationary orbit.
The office of satellite and product operations ospo is part of the national environmental satellite data and information service nesdis.
Nesdis is part of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa and the department of commerce.
To receive signals from orbiting weather satellites you need a receiver and antenna capable of receiving frequency modulation fm in the 137 mhz satellite band.
Active storms ts gamma hu marie goes west pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest u s.
Coverage area depictions are approximate.
