Satellite Imagery - GOES-East
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| identifier | urn:wmo:md:ca-eccc-msc:4564cbf5-9de5-4521-b007-a20d73ad6f89 |
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| created | 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z |
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| title | Satellite Imagery - GOES-East |
| description | These products are derived from RGB (red/green/blue) images, a satellite processing technique that uses a combination of satellite sensor bands (also called channels) and applies a red/green/blue (RGB) filter to each of them. The result is a false-color image, i.e. an image that does not correspond to what the human eye would see, but offers high contrast between different cloud types and surface features. The on-board sensor of a weather satellite obtains two basic types of information: visible light data (reflected light) reflecting off clouds and different surface types, also known as "reflectance", and infrared data (emitted radiation) which are short-wave and long-wave radiation emitted by clouds and surface features. RGBs are specially designed to combine this type of satellite data, resulting in an information-rich final product. Other products are based on the enhancement of channel data for a single wavelength, also aimed at highlighting meteorological features of the observed surface or clouds, but in a simpler way since only a single wavelength is involved. This older approach is still useful today, as its simplicity makes image interpretation easier in some cases. |
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Satellite images
id: Remote sensing id: Meteorology scheme: https://canada.multites.net/cst/EAEAD1E6-7DD2-4997-BE7F-40BFB1CBE8A2/CST20230912.rdf concepts: id: weather scheme: https://codes.wmo.int/wis/topic-hierarchy/earth-system-discipline |
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