Abstract
Traditionally, NOAA NESDIS has distributed GOES imagery as small sector
images, usually a jpg or gif. With the launch of GOES-16, NESDIS has
embraced a more modern approach to serving this imagery: NOAA Satellite
Maps is a geospatial data Map Service to access imagery from the
geostationary and polar satellites in our fleet. We support open
information sharing and integration through this RESTful Service, which
can be used by a multitude of GIS software packages and web map
applications (both open and commercially licensed) for free. One of the
most important features of the Satellite Maps layers service is the
interoperable nature of its data. Users can combine georeferenced data
layers from other datasets together with the Satellite Maps data,
allowing infinite opportunities for providing meaning and value to NOAA
data. For example, GOES East infrared Band 10 data can be combined with
Doppler radar data and Lightning data to see how cloud cover and
instances of rain align during a critical weather event. In this poster
we will discuss the architecture and application development that were
used to generate the image services and how the public is accessing and
downloading GOES imagery.