Goes Weather Satellite Receiver

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.

Goes weather satellite receiver.

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. Active storms ts gamma hu marie goes west pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest u s. Coverage area depictions are approximate. The final setup added a separate dish antenna and a separate receiver for reception of images from the meteosat satellites at geostationary orbit.

In particular they send beautiful high resolution full disk images which show one side of the entire earth. 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. As well as the tips he s uploaded a nice set of images that show his setup and several of the images he has received. 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.

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. Click on a region to view images and animations for that region. 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. 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.

Goes 15 16 17 are geosynchronous weather satellites that beam back high resolution weather images and data. The downconverter is outside next to the antenna. The picture above is the indoor portion of the receiver setup. Nesdis is part of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa and the department of commerce.

The office of satellite and product operations ospo is part of the national environmental satellite data and information service nesdis. 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. The indoor portion is an fm receiver that receives a signal near 137 mhz. Spacecraft and ground based elements of the system work together to provide a continuous.

Image from a geostatioary weather satellite using system 5.