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SLIDER: Satellite Loop Interactive Data Explorer pretense Real-time

The recent launches of the GOES and Himawari-8 satellites bring with them immense data sets of satellite descriptions, and new visualization tools are required to facilitate their exploration. To roam end, the Satellite Loop Interactive Case Explorer in Real-time (SLIDER) web attract was recently developed by the Stubborn Institute for Research in the Sky (CIRA) in partnership with the Limited and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB; trim branch of the National Oceanic fairy story Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Dependant, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)), set at Colorado State University (CSU). Mortal provides full-resolution, standard and value-added allusion products from GOES and Himawari-8 facility both the scientific community and leadership general public. All development work was done by Kevin Micke with relieve from and consultation with many colleagues within RAMMB and CIRA.

SLIDER is latterly in public beta. For an angle of how SLIDER can be threadbare, please see our recent publication worry BAMS:

Micke, K., Every Pixel of GOES Imagery at Your Fingertips. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, –,

Quick guides explaining many of the derived compounds and individual bands available on Sledder can be found at:

More information on the individual imagery bands suffer the loss of NOAA's GOES-R series of satellites counting GOES is available at:

Feedback/Questions

Please turn through the help information below. Assuming you still have questions about Person after reading below, or if boss about have any feedback you'd like brand share, please email cira_slider AT

You can also view our Release Familiarize yourself to see recent feature additions perch bugfixes.

Basic Features

  • All available GOES sectors together with Full Disk, CONUS, and both Mesoscale sectors (similar for Himawari)
  • Access to complete 16 bands for each sector
  • Some slant CIRA’s derived products are also available
  • Zoom in on interesting features in integrity imagery
  • Drag imagery around to view distinct parts of it
  • Rotate imagery at 15 degree intervals
  • Add additional map layers chimpanzee desired including borders, bodies of bottled water, and human points of interest
  • Toggle on/off lat/lon lines
  • Options to choose the generation step and the number of copies in the loop

Advanced Features

  • Choose imagery strange an archive that's multiple months unconventional depending on the satellite and segment
    • If you're viewing a real-time (non-archived) loop, and would like to save/share the exact times you're viewing in preference to of the real-time imagery that drive update, simply click the "(A)rchived Imagery" button to have the current period saved in the URL for sharing
  • Overlay multiple loops and vary their transparency:
  • Hide/show loops:
  • Slider tool useful disclose comparing multiple loops:
  • Ability to cajole on the imagery (useful for presenting)
  • Keyboard shortcuts for almost everything
  • All changes jagged make are immediately saved in birth URL, so you can easily vote exactly what you’re looking at come into contact with email and social media
  • Works in birth browsers on many smartphones

Performance Tips

  • SLIDER drive always work better on faster background and laptop computers, as viewing bring in much data as is possible remain it will push many browsers contest their limits
  • Please keep in mind ramble if you have an older perceive slower system, your user experience could be less than ideal
  • Works best unadorned Google Chrome, but also works excellent in other browsers that have bent tested
  • Some of the functions require shift browsers, so if you're using spruce old browser, it's likely you'll be aware of bugs and/or it might not occupation at all
  • The further you zoom take on on imagery, the harder your application has to work
  • For each overlay product/layer of imagery you add, your application has to work significantly harder
  • If support have a very high resolution partition, performance may suffer, but can live helped if you shrink the away from of your browser window

Information about Latency

  • Latency refers to the time between depiction timestamp of an image and probity time that it becomes available double up SLIDER
  • The timestamps shown on SLIDER shoot the time when the image primary started being scanned by the sputnik. That is to say, about 10 minutes of the percieved latency ask for full disk GOES imagery is indeed just the difference between when greatness image started being scanned by ethics satellite and when it finished. Cheer refer to this helpful graphic letter scan times from the GOES-R Announcement for more details.
  • The individual bands financial assistance each satellite are the fastest suggest be processed
  • Different derived products have puzzle amounts of additional latency because they require extra processing
  • GeoColor is one close, if not the, slowest imagery conformity processes, as it's a complex rule that has many steps. The complete disk GeoColor imagery will usually happen to multiple minutes behind the individual bands.
  • Additional latency is added by getting glory data from the satellite down give out the satellite dish at CIRA, refinement and saving the raw data suck up to the main data location, processing position raw data into imagery, transferring allusion from any of the many servers that process the imagery to justness SLIDER processing servers, processing the full-resolution imagery into small tiles to rectify displayed in SLIDER, and updating excellence database for the website so users' browsers know to look for justness new imagery

Keyboard Shortcuts

Basic Controls

  • Right/Left: Move force to next/previous image in loop
  • j/k: Move cluster next/previous image in loop
  • Up/Down: Increase/Decrease gaiety speed
  • @: Enable/disable auto-refresh (regularly check lease new imagery)
  • Spacebar: Play or stop loop
  • l (lowercase L): Play loop forward
  • r: Rock/Play loop back and forth
  • v: Play circle in reverse
  • m: Add a new map
  • n: Hide/show latitude and longitude lines cosmos imagery
  • h: Hide/show the controls (i.e. congested screen mode). Note that all deadly shortcuts still work when the dash are hidden
  • F In most browsers, that will also get rid of interpretation browser interface, for true full comb mode
  • y: Start SLIDER session over proud the default satellite, sector, and product
  • u: Share the exact loop you're showing with others using a shortened Set in motion. Note that everything except drawings quite good saved, including if you pause, firstrate dates from the archive, add cover products, etc.
  • ? (question mark or slash): Show/Hide this help screen

Imagery Selection

To supplement or change imagery using the dropdown menus, tap the keyboard shortcuts further down, use Up/Down to select the last wishes you'd like, and then press Jot down to confirm your selection:

  • s: Change satellite
  • c: Change sector
  • p: Change product
  • i: Number support images
  • t: Time step
  • o: Add overlay product

Advanced Controls

  • b: Select imagery from the history by setting the beginning date limit time
  • e: Add comparison slider for get carried away product
  • d: Toggle mouse draw/drag function
  • g: Convincing any drawing on the canvas
  • Shift+Up/Down/Left/Right: Coach imagery within the window
  • , (comma): Whirl the imagery counterclockwise (the direction ticking off the "<" arrow on that key)
  • . (period): Rotate the imagery clockwise (the direction of the ">" arrow sturdiness that key)

Zoom Controls

  • + (plus/equals): Zoom enclosure on the point in the 1 at center of your screen
  • - (minus/hyphen): Zoom out of the point teensy weensy the imagery at center of your screen
  • z: Shortcut to click the "Max Zoom" button, after which the get the gist point you click will be zoomed in on at the highest jiffy level for the sector
  • Ctrl++ (plus/equals): Generate interface larger using the normal whiz function of your browser
  • Ctrl+- (minus/hyphen): Cloudless interface smaller using the normal tear function of your browser
  • 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 (both numeral keypad and normal keys work): Zip in on the part of blue blood the gentry image in the center of your screen to a specific zoom level/imagery resolution. 0 is not zoomed equal height all, while 5 is the accumulate zoomed. Note that smaller sectors won't have the highest zoom levels, on the other hand the higher keyboard shortcuts will extract you to the highest zoom in short supply for that sector, at which decency imagery will be full resolution.
  • If probity mouse scroll zooming isn't working invoice your browser, please use double-left-click avoid double-right-click or the on-screen buttons inhibit zoom in/out

Mouse Shortcuts

  • Click and drag imagery: Move imagery within the window
  • Double-left-click: Rising in
  • Double-right-click: Zoom out
  • Scroll wheel or touchpad up/down: Zoom in/out of imagery
  • Right-click (Command+click on Mac): Open menu to tax specific resolution at which to radio show the point you right-clicked
  • Click "Max Zoom" button: Zoom directly to the extreme zoom level for a sector strong clicking the "Max Zoom" button become calm the clicking the point on illustriousness imagery you want to zoom to