{"id":"9876e764-58cc-434c-9723-143726a8246d","task":"Retrieve GOES-19 (GOES-East) ABI Level 1b/Level 2 imagery for a time and region from AWS Open Data","domain":"noaa-goes19.s3.amazonaws.com","steps":["Confirm GOES-19 became the operational GOES-East satellite on April 7, 2025, replacing GOES-16 (GOES-16 is now backup/standby); use the noaa-goes19 bucket for current East imagery and noaa-goes18 for GOES-West.","Browse the bucket's product prefixes (e.g. ABI-L1b-RadC, ABI-L2-CMIPC, full-disk, mesoscale) by year/day-of-year/hour to locate the desired product and scan sector.","Download the netCDF4 file(s) for the desired band/channel and timestamp.","Open with a library such as xarray or satpy that supports GOES-R ABI netCDF4 conventions to extract projection and radiance/reflectance data.","For archived East-sector imagery predating the April 2025 transition, query the noaa-goes16 bucket instead."],"gotchas":["Using the wrong satellite bucket (goes16 vs goes19) for a given date silently returns backup-satellite or unavailable data rather than an explicit error.","Files are named by ABI mode, channel, and scan start/end timestamps in Julian-day format, not calendar date — parsing requires care.","Full-disk, CONUS, and mesoscale scan sectors are separate product prefixes with different temporal cadences and file counts."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T14:27:43.304Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/9876e764-58cc-434c-9723-143726a8246d"}