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    • GOES-R Series Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) Level 2 Products

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2025

    These SUVI Level 2 (L2) data are designed for use by the NOAA-NWS Space Weather Forecast Office and include several different products: composite images, thematic maps, bright regions, flare locations, coronal hole boundaries, coronal hole images, and fixed and running difference images. The SUVI Composite Image product is a weight average using the short and long exposures found in the SUVI Level-1b product to produce a high-dynamic range image. SUVI Fixed Difference images use a set "reference" image to produce difference images with respect to a particular event. SUVI Running Difference images use the most recent data to produce difference images showing short-term changes in the solar corona. The SUVI Thematic Map is a "mask" image that shows the automatically classified solar features. Composite images, as well as fixed and running difference images, are available in each of SUVI's six wavelengths. SUVI image products are available as FITS files. The SUVI Coronal Hole Boundary product contains lists of the boundary pixels in both image and heliographic coordinates for all coronal holes identified in the SUVI Thematic Map. The SUVI Bright Region Report uses the SUVI Thematic Map and SUVI Composite Image products to provide statistics on identified bright regions on the Sun. The SUVI Flare Location Report provides locations and statistics on flares identified by either the SUVI Thematic Map or the XRS Event Detection products. These products, Coronal Hole Boundaries, Bright Region Report, and Flare Location Report, are tabular data provided in netCDF-4 format.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date December 2, 2025
    Metadata Created Date October 18, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2025
    Reference Date(s) September 1, 2018 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update continual

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NGDC STP Space Weather

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    NOAA GOES Spacecraft

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date December 2, 2025
    Metadata Created Date October 18, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2025
    Reference Date(s) September 1, 2018 (publication)
    Responsible Party NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.ncei.swx:suvi-l2-goesr
    Access Constraints Cite as: Darnel, Jonathan; Seaton, Daniel; Hsu, Vicki (2018): GOES-R Series Level 2 Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) Products. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/D60Q-G238 [access date]., Distribution liability: NOAA and NCEI make no warranty, expressed or implied, regarding these data, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and NCEI cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data. If appropriate, NCEI can only certify that the data it distributes are an authentic copy of the records that were accepted for inclusion in the NCEI archives., Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update continual
    Graphic Preview Description NOAA GOES Spacecraft
    Graphic Preview File https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/images/noaa_goesr_series_satellite_illustration.jpg
    Graphic Preview Type JPEG
    Harvest Object Id 26d0e774-5a7b-4817-9d2c-f3220f6a4e96
    Harvest Source Id 720e273e-9143-4e92-8a4c-fe2bf3aacd0b
    Harvest Source Title NGDC STP Space Weather
    Licence These GOES-16 data have reached provisional maturity and are still undergoing testing. Users receiving these data through any dissemination means assume all risk related to their use and NOAA disclaims any and all warranties, whether express or implied, including (without limitation) any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
    Lineage This dataset was produced by NESDIS, and is archived at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
    Metadata Language eng; USA
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2018-05-04

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