Monthly Archives: February 2025

New Active Fire products, Channel 146

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The old AF products have been discontinued.  We replaced them with new ones using data from all three JPSS satellites.  They are in the “geonetcast/JPSS/PRODUCTS/AF” Folder, Channel 146.

From the product description: From the product description: The eFire system is an integrated system to detect active fires/hot spots by using multiple satellite sensors including VIIRS on S-NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21. The output includes fire pixel locations, fire characteristics, and other metadata fields in NetCDF format.

Maintenance Update: ETESA-IMHPA – Panama (GNC-A Station #90)

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This week our colleagues from ETESA-IMHPA Panama reported their GNC station stopped ingesting data. After some interaction, it is working again! Here’s how we managed to discover the problem:

Following the “Maintenance Flowchart”, as suggested during the GNC-A Training for Eastern Caribbean States in 2023, the first step is checking the DVB-S2 receiver:

The receiver was on LOCK and the data LED was blinking as expected. The reception parameters were also good:

By looking at the parameters (Signal Strenght, BER, C/N, etc), we see that the reception parameters are OK and the problem should be in the workstation. For some reason, the DVB-S2 receiver was unable to communicate with the FAZZT Client, which was also configured correctly.

When this occurs, the first step is to check the firewall settings. Upon asking if there had been any recent changes to the firewall, the ETESA staff confirmed that firewall configurations had been modified. After reviewing the workstation configuration, the ingestion resumed successfully.

CSPP Geo Updates for GOES-19 Transition

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Hi community,

Please find below an important information regarding the necessary changes to our GRB stations for the transition from GOES-16 to GOES-19 as GOES-East. 

This information was kindly shared by Alejandro Aguilar (LANOT/UNAM – Mexico) after reaching out to Graeme Martin from SSEC (CSPP Devs).

The following packages will need software updates to support GOES-19:

AIT Framework
Gridded GLM
LightningCast (minor update to address an issue with Gridded GLM overlays)

We are developing the updates and planning to release them by March 4 to give users time to update their systems before GOES-19 becomes operational on April 4.

The remaining packages already support GOES-19 and do not require updates (GRB, Geo2Grid, AXI-Tools).

As a reminder, below is the transition plan, kindly shared by NOAA during the 35th SDR Teleconference: GOES-19 is expected to be declared the operational GOES-East on April 4th, 2025. This gives us approximately one month to update our GRB stations.

For more details on the CSPP Geo package, please visit the following webpage: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/