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4 Jun 2024 - 15:18 EDT
4 Jun 2024 - 19:18 UTC
GOES-East - Sector view: Gulf of Mexico - GeoColor
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GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1811 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1816 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1821 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1826 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1831 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1836 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1841 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1846 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1851 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1856 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1906 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 04 Jun 2024 - 1911 UTC
GeoColor is a multispectral product composed of True Color (using a simulated green component) during daytime, and an Infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. During the day, the imagery looks approximately as it would when viewed with human eyes from space. At night, the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus, while gray to white indicate higher ice clouds, and the city lights come from a static database derived from the VIIRS Day Night Band.
GeoColor was developed at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) and the STAR Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB). For a full description of the algorithm, please see this article.
Please credit CIRA/NOAA when using GeoColor imagery.
NOTE: Lighted areas shown in nighttime images are not real-time depictions of city lights. The layer is derived from a compilation of JPSS VIIRS Day Night Band images and is included for orientation purposes.
