Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

Beta Testing SLIDER 2.0 – Now with Meteosat-12:

The SLIDER team is excited to announce that we’ve got a new tool/toy for everyone to play with! It’s the SLIDER you’ve come to know and love, but with a crazy-long archive, Meteosat-12 imagery, and hopefully even better performance. We are currently beta testing a vastly improved version of SLIDER running on new hardware. This includes load balancing software to distribute user activity over multiple servers, and a Ceph-based storage system capable of handling multiple petabytes of satellite imagery. This new hardware configuration allows us to provide Meteosat-12 imagery in realtime – including all 16 FDHSI bands (1km VIS/NIR & 2 km IR), all 4 HRFI bands (500 m VIS/NIR & 1km IR), all the RGB imagery products you know and love, plus several new experimental products to highlight use of the new NIR low-level water band (0.91 μm). Other improvements to SLIDER include a greatly expanded 5-month rolling archive of imagery for all geostationary satellites and a 60-day archive of JPSS imagery. Before we launch it publicly, we’d like all satellite imagery lovers out there to kick the tires for us and see how it holds up. Everything is now available at what will soon be our new, streamlined URL when we officially launch: https://slider.cira.colostate.edu/  If you have feedback on anything, particularly performance/speed, we’d love to hear it. (POCs: C. Seaman, K. Micke, Z. Amundson, A. Tomar, N. Tourville and D. Canfield, CIRA. curtis.seaman@colostate.edu; kevin.micke@rams.colostate.edu; zayd.amundson@colostate.edu; aniket.tomar@colostate.edu; natalie.tourville@colostate.edu; dylan.canfield@colostate.edu) Funding: GEO/GOES-R and LEO/JPSS.

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Posted on: October 10, 2025