Version:2.3.0
NumericalData
ResourceID
spase://NOAA/NumericalData/GOES/Ephemeris/P1D
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
GOES 2 through GOES 12 Satellite West Longitudes, Geographic (GEO) Coordinates, Daily Data
AlternateName
GOES longitudinal data
ReleaseDate
2018-06-28 22:02:01Z
Description
The GOES longitudinal location information consists of the west geographic longitude in degrees. The data are separated into spacecraft (GOES 2-12), year, and month. The location is given for each day of the month is in units of degrees and the geographic latitude is assumed to be 0¯.
Acknowledgement
NOAA, Howard J. Singer
Contacts
InformationURL
Name
GOES Space Environment Monitor
URL
Description
Additional GOES scpaecraft information.
PriorIDs
spase://VMO/NumericalData/GOES/Ephemeris/P1D
spase://VSPO/NumericalData/GOES/Ephemeris/P1D
AccessInformation
RepositoryID
Availability
Online
AccessRights
Open
AccessURL
Name
HTTP access to GOES 2 through GOES 12 Spacecraft Longitude Position Data
URL
Description
HTTP access to GOES Longitudinal Position Data in ASCII Format at Daily Time Resolution. The Data are sorted by Spacecraft.
Format
Text.ASCII
Encoding
None
Acknowledgement
NOAA, Howard J. Singer
ProcessingLevel
Calibrated
ProviderResourceName
NOAA GOES
ProviderProcessingLevel
Level-2
InstrumentIDs
MeasurementType
Ephemeris
TemporalDescription
TimeSpan
StartDate
1986-01-01 00:00:00
StopDate
2010-02-28 00:00:00
Note
Time format in data files is each row corresponds to one month of data. Columns 3 to 33 corresponds to a longitude for each day.
Cadence
P31D
Caveats
The flag for bad data is 0.0. The Geographic latitude for each spacecraft is assumed to be 0°. The spacecraft are kept within a few tenths of a degree of 0° latitude. However, there can be times when the spacecraft can reach several degrees inclination. The user is recommended to check with one of the online resources that calculate satellite inclination and longitude from two line orbital elements.
Keywords
1 day
geosynchronous
GOES
Longitude
Parameter #1
Name
Spacecraft Name
ParameterKey
SAT
Description
Spacecraft name in the format of GOES XX where XX is in a 2-digit numeric format. At this time there is only information from GOES 2-14.
Support
Parameter #2
Name
Year and Month of Longitude Information
ParameterKey
YYMM
Description
Year and Month information is in a 4-digit format of YYMM.
ValidMin
8601
ValidMax
1004
Support
Parameter #3
Name
GOES West Geographic Longitude Location at 1 day Time Resolution
ParameterKey
GOES West Geographic Longitude
Description
The GOES Geographic Longitude in degrees is an array of 31 numbers. One for each day of the month. Flag values are 0.0 for no data or for days of the month that do not exist such as February 31st. The latitude is assumed to be zero and the radius is geosynchronous orbit.
Units
°
CoordinateSystem
CoordinateRepresentation
Spherical
CoordinateSystemName
GEO
Structure
Size
31
Description
GOES West Geographic Longitudinal location of the spacecraft in degrees. There are 31 elements in the structure. One for each day.
Support
SupportQuantity
Positional
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