SSEC Data Center Archive Data

SSEC Data Center Archive

The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) currently archives research-quality data from nine different geostationary satellites. SSEC also archives point, grid and text data from the NOAAport broadcast

Data from SSEC is available in many different delivery formats.

GOES Satellites

*Satellite*	*Dates Archived*	*Data Format*	*Media*
GOES-15 GOES Schedules	March 30, 2010 - present	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-14 GOES Schedules	July 20, 2009 - January 19, 2010 August 16, 2012 - present	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-13 GOES Schedules	July 3, 2006 - January 5, 2007 July 20, 2007 - August 15, 2007 August 1, 2008 - April 16, 2009 January 27, 2010 - September 23, 2012	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-12 GOES Schedules	August 16, 2001 - January 7, 2002 January 16, 2003 - present	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-11 GOES Schedules	June 4, 2004 - July 1, 2004 July 6, 2005 - August 3, 2005 May 25, 2006 - December 6, 2011	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-10 GOES Schedules	March 9, 1998 - June 21, 2006 August 15, 2006 - October 2, 2006 December 21, 2006 - December 1, 2009	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-9 GOES Schedules	August 31, 1995 - July 21, 1998 April 23, 2003 - November 17, 2005	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-8 GOES Schedules	August 31, 1994 - April 1, 2003	Raw GVAR signal*	Online
GOES-7 GOES Schedules	March 25, 1987 - January 9, 1996	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
GOES-6 GOES Schedules	June 1, 1983 - April 2, 1987 October 20, 1987 - January 21, 1989	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
GOES-5 GOES Schedules	August 6, 1981 - July 29, 1984	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
GOES-4 GOES Schedules	January 5, 1981 - November 25, 1982	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
GOES-3 GOES Schedules	November 20, 1978 - March 4, 1981	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
GOES-2 GOES Schedules	February 18, 1978 - January 26, 1979	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
GOES-1 GOES Schedules	December 2, 1978 - December 1, 1979 November 29, 1982 - May 31, 1983 April 30, 1984 - February 3, 1985	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
SMS-II GOES Schedules	April 20, 1979 - August 5, 1981	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon
SMS-I GOES Schedules	January 27, 1979 - April 19, 1979	Stretched VISSR	Available online soon

Other Geostationary Satellites

*Satellite*	*Dates Archived*	*Data Format*	*Media*
GMS-1	November 30, 1978 - December 1, 1979	GOES Format (McIDAS AREAs)	Available Online soon
GMS-5	November 9, 1998 - May 21, 2003	GOES Format (McIDAS AREAs)	Online
Meteosat-3	August 1, 1992 - December 31, 1993 March 1, 1994 - May 31, 1995	PDUS (pre 9/2005) OpenMTP(9/2005 onwards)	Online
Meteosat-5	March 8, 1999 - January 25, 2007	PDUS (pre 9/2005) OpenMTP(9/2005 onwards)	Online
Meteosat-7	March 5, 1999 - May 15, 2006 January 25, 2007 - Present	PDUS(pre 2007) OpenMTP(2007 onwards)	Online
Meteosat-8	March 18, 2004 - April 11, 2007	HRIT	Online
Meteosat-9	April 11, 2007 - Present	HRIT	Online
MTSAT-1R HiRID	July 5, 2005 - October 26, 2007	GOES Format (McIDAS AREAS)	Online
MTSAT-1R HRIT	September 15, 2007 - July 1, 2010	HRIT	Online
MTSAT-2 HRIT	July 1, 2010 - present	HRIT	Online
FY-2C	June 24, 2005 - November 24, 2009	GOES Format (McIDAS AREAs)	Online
FY-2D	August 26, 2007 - present	GOES Format (McIDAS AREAs)	Online
FY-2E	November 25, 2009 - December 28, 2009 (TEST DATA) December 29, 2009 - present	GOES Format (McIDAS AREAs)	Online
Kalpana	December 3, 2004 - March 29, 2007 June 5, 2007 - August 31, 2009 October 14, 2010 - present	HDF Format	Online

Conventional Data

*Data Type*	*Dates Archived*	*Data Format*	*Media*
Point	March, 1976 - Present	McIDAS MD	Online
Model Grids	September 1996 - August 20, 2004	McIDAS GRIDs	Online
Model GRIB Data Contains the gribs from the NOAAPORT feed; GFS is res 1.25	July 29, 2003 - present	NOAAPORT GRIB	Online
Text	September 1996 - Present	McIDAS TEXT	Online

Special Products

Data Type

Dates Archived

Data Format

Media

Global Satellite composites

June 2001 - Present

McIDAS AREAs

ADDE Server: GEOARC04.SSEC.WISC.EDU

ADDE Group: SATCOMP

All data currently being archived at the Space Science and Engineering Center uses the SSEC Desktop Ingestor (SDI).

*sounder data is also archived as GOES format AREAs for faster retrieval.

To get a cost estimate on the purchase of data from the SSEC Data Center Archive please contact Jerrold Robaidek .

Updated 27 August 2012 by SSEC Data Center