Administrative: GOES-16/17 software patch (DO.09.05.00) will be implemented into operations on June 21, 2021 -  Issued June 11, 2021 2020 UTC

 

Topic: GOES-16/17 software patch scheduled for June 21, 2021

Date/Time Issued: June 11, 2021 1600 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All GOES-16 and GOES-17 Level 1b products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 21, 2021 1400 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: N/A

Length of Outage: N/A 

 

Details/Specifics of Change:  A GOES-16/17 software patch is planned to go live on June 21, 2021 between 1400-1600 UTC. No data outage will occur when the updates go live. These updates will result in changes to all Level 1b (L1b) products and some Level 2 (L2) products as detailed below. GOES Rebroadcast (GRB) and GOES-R Product Definition and Users’ Guide (PUG) impacts and updates are noted.

 

 

 

ADR

WR#

Algorithm

Headline

Summary

GRB impact

PUG impact

682

5870

All L0 and L1b products

Inconsistent "instrument_type" global attribute across products

Corrects instrument type metadata values for clarity and consistency across products and PUG.


X

965

7120

ABI L1b / CMI / L2

Meso off-disk corners affecting FTNM content

Resolves missing geospatial extent information on Meso sectors with corner points off-earth, which was impacting PDA.



7839


6444

ABI L1b

ABI L1b Resample Band 2 Fails To Catch Up

Resolves an out-of-bound array issue that could cause crash of band 2 resampling under some conditions.




6699

ABI L1b

GOES-17 Hawaii Fill Stripe and Offset

Resolves a timing issue that occasionally introduces vertical stripes of fill at some L1b block boundaries.



594

6710

ABI L1b

ABI lunar intrusion level latchup: longer term fix

Adds check for multiple adjacent detectors rows to spacelook lunar intrusion logic.




7038

ABI L1b

Uninitialized integration factor in L0

Addresses root cause of multiple WRs documenting intermittent image artifacts related to SCT handling anomalies.



7780

8134

8390

1004

7564

ABI L1b

Algo to deconflict ABI cal with Gain Set Switch

Deconflicts Predictive Calibration and Lunar Intrusion algorithms with changes in ABI Gain Set (channel integration time).



1097

7909

ABI L1b

G16 ABI Meso2 metadata issue in GRB

Updates the default fill value for ABI focal plane module temperature parameters to be -999.0 rather than "n/a".




8006

ABI L1b

Focal Plane Temperature Fails when Processing Empty Eng SU Blobs

Resolves with focal plane temperature variable initialization issue that could cause an ABI calibration process to crash.




7560

ABI L1b INR

Add IMU rate filtering for ABI ground processing to avoid loss of imagery

Implements a moving-average rate smoother into the ABI Kalman Filter to mitigate jumps in 100 Hz gyro rate data.


X

817

6548

ABI Inst Cal

fill-in spacelook statistics in INST-CAL

Resolves a database type mismatch that caused spacelook statistics to be reported as fill in some cases.



304

6700

ABI Inst Cal

DO.04.04 ABI INST-CAL-ENG Data Show Irregularities

Resolves time gaps, telemetry time order, and missing telemetry points in ABI Inst Cal files.



292

6846

ABI Inst Cal

ABI INST-CAL Offset Field Irregularities

Clarifies names and definitions of gain parameters in ABI Inst Cal.


X

800

7123

ABI Inst Cal

Erroneous and empty INST-CAL fields

Resolves a database type mismatch that caused Inst Cal parameters to be misreported in some cases.



911

769

6667

ABI L1alpha Lunar scans

same time coverage timing at G16/G17 lunar L1alpha

Adds explicit start and end time stamps for lunar filename creation.




8058

ABI L1alpha Lunar scans

G16 and G17 Lunar Instrument Calibration data not being produced for all channels

Adds missing data fabric topic descriptors that caused missing bands in lunar files.



8289


7114

ABI L1b (logs only)

Kalman Event Log Not Being Written To Properly

Flushes Kalman Filter event log after each message to maintain message integrity.



1109

7990

GLM L2

GLM Flash Area equals Fill Value for Large Flashes

Caps the upper limit on Lightning Flash Area at MAX(UINT16) - 1, eliminating conflict with the fill value MAX(UINT16).


X


6690

GLM L1b IP

GLM L1b intermediate product metadata inconsistent with product data

Resolves mismatched data types in GLM L1b intermediate product metadata that were reported as errors during PD startup.



894

6902

EXIS L1b

EXIS settings during lunar transit

Partial resolution of pointing flag and other data field issues during lunar transit conditions. Additional work to be performed under WR 8323.



958

7099

EXIS L1b

Change EXIS LUT variables to double precision

Increases a number of LUT parameters and associated calculations to double precision.



1024

7386

EXIS L1b

EUVS split diodes code order error

Corrects the order of operations for split diode current calculations to be in compliance with the CDRL-80 GPA.



1030

7398

EXIS L1b

EXIS issues with 28.4 line

Corrects logic issues in converting 28.4 nm diode data from raw counts to irradiance.



1047

7434

EXIS L1b

Errors with 121.6 nm line

Corrects logic issues in converting 121 nm diode data from raw counts to irradiance.



1052

7474

EXIS L1b

Exclude cals from EUVS model

Excludes data collected during calibration (daily/weekly) in the computation of spectral model proxies and in daily averages.



1053

7475

EXIS L1b

EUVS dark diode currents

Updates EUVS-A and EUVS-B dark diode current computation.



1054

7476

EXIS L1b

exclude geocoronal data from EUVS model

Excludes data from the 121 nm line corresponding to periods of geocoronal absorption in the computation of spectral model proxies and in daily averages.



1063

7530

EXIS L1b

SPS Observation Times

Corrects center time calculations for SPS and EUVS-C.


X

1087

7796

EXIS L1b

EXIS Pointing Flags and Earth Eclipse

Updates pointing angle and eclipse flag names and setting logic.


X

8161

1056

7663

MAG L1b (implemented in L0)

DO GS updates for GMAG on GOES-T/U

Updates DO MAG processing for compatibility with GOES-T/U GMAG.



228

7067

SEISS L1b

SEISS record time mismatches with filenames

Resolves numerous time stamp issues in product filenames and metadata.



1028

7397

SUVI L1b

SUVI metadata update - ADR 311 follow on

Updates units, valid range, and precision of some SUVI parameters in both netCDF and FITS.


X

912

7078

SUVI L1b (logs only)

SUVI INR Producing SolarBAngle Errors

Sets valid range for SolarBAngle to reduce excessive false limit error messages.



 

 

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