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April 18th, 2025

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite now live!

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite now operational, providing critical new data to forecasters

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite, the last satellite in theGOES-R Series, began official operations as GOES-East on April 7, 2025.This milestone follows its June 25, 2024 launch and subsequenttesting of its instruments, systems, and data.

This is an historic moment for the GOESprogram, coinciding with its 50th anniversary in 2025. Sincethe first GOES satellite in 1975, NOAA and NASA havepartnered to advance NOAA’s satellite observations from geostationary orbit.

The GOES-19 image stream is now published by the STAR GOESImagery site as successor to GOES-16.

• SeeNOAA’s GOES-19 complete story

Image credits: STAR GOES Imagery site

The NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite now live!

March 25, 2025

STAR's Christopher Slocum Wins an 8th NOAA David Johnson Award

STAR's winning history spans 27 years

STAR congratulates Christopher Slocum for his 2025 NOAA David Johnson Award.Chris is the 8th STAR Johnson Award winner in the award's 27 year history.

Past STAR winners also include:

2025 - Christopher Slocum2024 - Bill Line2019 - Alejandro Egido2018 - Scott D. Rudlosky2017 - Dan Lindsey2015 - Michael J. Pavolonis2004 - John Knaff1999 - Fuzhong Weng

photo: close-up of the NOAA David Johnson Award trophy

February 18, 2025

TargetingWinter Weather Hazards with New Satellite Data Products

Two new products developed by STAR'sBill Line help NWS forecasters

Blowing snow and freezing sea spray can now both be monitored by NWS forecasters, addressing two different significant winter weather hazards. Blowing snow creates dangerous driving conditions completely distinct from ongoing snowfall; freezing sea spray can capsize or sink ocean vessels. STAR's Bill Line worked to develop these two data products, using VIIRS data for the sea spray product and GOES imager data to observe blowing snow.

photo credits: NWS Des Moines, left, and NOAA Office of Marine and Aircraft Operations, right

• SeeNOAA's complete story

image on left: Blizzard conditions in rural Iowa [Credit: NWS Des Moines/Mahaska County EMA]; image on right: Ice accumulated on NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON Photo credits: NOAA Office of Marine and Aircraft Operations

November 4, 2024

NOAA awards $7.6 million for flooding, extreme precipitation preparedness

Hurricane Helene caused record flooding and damage on September 28, 2024, in Asheville, NC.

On October 29, 2024, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced $7.6 million in funding for cooperative institutes to transform satellite observations into information communities can use to prepare for and recover from floods and heavy precipitation.

The awards fund work to create street-level maps of potential flooding and inundation, improve models of how water cycles through the nation’s rivers and streams, and develop a new dataset of hourly-precipitation information to help businesses and communities better understand the effects of extreme rainfall.

• Read the full NOAA article.

image: NOAA award $7.6 million for flooding extreme precipitation preparedness

September 12, 2024

GOES Imagery Tracks Francine

STAR GOES site is a keystorm monitoring resource

On September 8, the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC)identified a large low pressure disturbance over the Gulfof Mexico. Now, as named storm Francine, the hurricane dumpedheavy rainfall and produced dangerous winds on Louisianaand Mississippi coasts.

The STAR GOES imagery site producesimages that follow the storm position data from the NHC.GOES storm pages are then referenced by both the NHC andby NOAA's Hurricane Francine pages. The GOES Imagery sitedoes this for every NHC-tracked tropical storm in theAtlantic and eastern Pacific regions.

• NHC Francine forecast & details

• GOES Imagery for Francine

image: Hurricane Francine, 10 September 2024

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STAR is Shining!

Chris Slocum Wins NOAA David Johnson Award for Tropical Storm Forecasting Work

3/25/2025 - Chris Slocum, a research scientist with NOAA NESDIS’ Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), has been selected as the 2025 winner of NOAA’s David S. Johnson Award. "The David S. Johnson award honors the first Administrator of what became NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service,” said Stephen Volz, Ph.D., Assistant Administrator for NOAA NESDIS. “It recognizes exemplary work from young scientists like Chris Slocum who are using satellite data to help save lives, protect the economy, and benefit society overall."

Slocum is being recognized for developing new operational applications for Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) observations from NOAA’s GOES-R Series satellites that provide better guidance for tropical cyclone forecasting.

“NOAA NESDIS has had a rich history of using satellite observations for tropical cyclone monitoring, analysis, and forecasting. The technology on today's generation of GOES satellites provides better insight into changes in convective activity within tropical cyclones,” Slocum said. “Our goal was to couple these improved observing capabilities with innovations in artificial intelligence/machine learning for the most challenging aspects of tropical cyclones forecasting–their formation and rapid intensification.”

To read more about Chris Slocum's work visit his bio.

STAR in the News

photo: Hurricane Francine, September 10, 2024

Tracking Francine’s Latest Path

September 12, 2024 - Bloomberg News reports:Francine is the third named storm to hit the mainland US this year.The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season got off to a quick start, but hadstalled in recent weeks before Francine. It has now produced six storms,four of which became hurricanes.

STAR's GOES-East geocolor image of the storm is featured.

AI and satellite imaging doing early wildfire detection in Colorado

July 30, 2024 - This week the Denver Post reports on a new artificial intelligence program — the Next Generation Fire System — which will help identify wildfires as small as an acre by scanning images taken by weather satellites orbiting about 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. NOAA officials say it can process the deluge of data from the satellites — which capture images as frequently as every 30 seconds — and detect heat from fires smaller than a football field. The program then flags potential new fires to a dashboard so humans can check the images and verify the existence of a fire.

While humans are great at detecting a new fire from satellite images, they can’t process the firehose of data as quickly and easily as the AI program, said STAR's Mike Pavolonis, NOAA Satellites’ Wildland Fire Program manager.