GOES East and West products are accessible from the **Satellite** menu. The menu is broken into sections starting with common CONUS GOES East/West Combo products. There are submenus for each of the separate geospatial sectors:
Each sector submenu has products for individual channels and vertical profiles, as well as submenus for derived products, channel differences, RGB Composites, GLM data, and derived motion winds where applicable. Additional documentation on specific products and quick guides can be found:
The Unidata IDD redistributes both the NOAAPort/SBN GOES tiled products as well as stitched together GOES products. While Unidata's AWIPS can decode and ingest both, it's important to only be requesting from one or the other so you aren't creating duplicate processing. The entries that should be used for GOES data are shown below which is found in the LDM's pqact.conf.priority file, located in `/awips2/ldm/etc`. (For the full list of pqact entries, you can view [this](https://github.com/Unidata/awips2/blob/unidata_20.3.2/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/etc/pqact.goesr) file).
RGB Composites are made by combining 3 channels (including derived parameter calculated channels) and are available for each sector. RGB products are always being added and updated. These products are generated **on the fly in AWIPS** and typically take a little bit of extra time to load.
!!! warning "GOES RGB Imagery is NOT SUPPORTED on macOS or within a Virtual Machine"
OpenGL Shading Language limitations prevent multi-channel imagery from displaying correctly on Mac or in a Virtual Machine. Please use the Linux or Windows installs to view RGB products.
Channel differences are the result of subtracting one channel from another to produce a new product. These products are generated **on the fly in AWIPS** using the existing channel products from EDEX.
Derived products are also known as **Level 2+** products. Not all sectors have the same set of products available. To find out some more information on some of the products visit the [**Quick Guides**](http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/training/visit/quick_guides/) compiled by CIRA.
The current products offered in CAVE are listed below and to the right is which GOES East/West sector they are available for (F=Full Disk, C=CONUS, M=Mesoscale):
Currently, the 1-min GLM gridded products are coming over the SBN and operational sites are calculating the 5-min GLM gridded products locally. At Unidata, we are receiving the 1 and 5-min gridded tiles from ISatSS (NWS) on the GOES East and West Full Disk scale, and we're stitching the tiles together locally before redistributing the full domain over our IDD/LDM feed. Current gridded products are available on the GOES East and West Full Disk Sectors:
Derived Motion Wind Vectors are produced using sequential CONUS sector goesABI images and can provide information about winds at different levels. The wind vectors are computed using both visible and infrared imagery. Winds can be plotted by different pressure layers or individual channels. More information can be found [here](http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/OCLOFactSheetPDFs/ABIQuickGuide_BaselineDerivedMotionWinds.pdf). Below is an image of the winds at different pressure layers.
Vertical Temperature and Moisture profiles are available in AWIPS for the CONUS sectors. Similar to NUCAPS, when loaded in CAVE, a circle is displayed for each location that has a vertical profile available. When clicking on the circle, NSHARP will open with the vertical temperature and moisture profile. These profiles are GFS data that have been adjusted based on the satellite observations. More information can be found [here](https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/training/visit/quick_guides/QuickGuide_GOES-R_Legacy_Temperature_Moisture%20Profiles.pdf).
