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goestools
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pietern / goestools

goestools

Tools to work with signals and files from GOES satellites

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Tools to work with signals and files from GOES satellites

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012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Great, if you end up building one, keep us updated (here or on Twitter). 1) Yes, this is DCS (Data Collection System) data. It's a very low bandwidth signal (300 or 1200 baud) that ground stations uplink to GOES on UHF. I found there are about 20k separate transmitters in some asset database I once found somewhere. Every one (or the set that's still active) transmits a tiny packet every N minutes (some every minute, others every 30 minutes). This data is also broadcast as part of the LRIT (GOES-15) and HRIT (GOES-16 and GOES-17) streams. There is no processing for this data in the goestools package yet, but you can get the originals and walk over the data. When I last looked at it, the format looked different per receiver, it is possible this is a per-vendor type of thing. Anyway, yes, you can get a copy of this data with the receiver des
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cribed in the OP guide. See https://github.com/pietern/goestools/issues/11 for some more links. 2) AFAICT MODIS is a product derived from the Aqua and Terra satellites. Both are polar orbiting sats. You can look them up here https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/81 and it looks like they don't pack a "direct readout" transmitter, so you wouldn't be able to receive anything directly yourself. Compare this to the page for GOES-16 at https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/152 and you see there are a bunch of frequencies with details listed.
In A Minimal LRIT GOES Receiver

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