Satellite Imagery - GOES-East
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 long-wave radiations emitted by clouds and surface features. RGBs are specially designed to combine this type of satellite data, resulting in an information-rich final product. Four types of products are currently generated from the GOES-West and GOES-East satellites: "NightIR" and "NightMicrophysics", at 2km resolution, are generated 24 hours a day with infrared channels, so are visible both night and day, and "NaturalColour" and "DayCloudConvection", at 1km resolution, which combine visible light channels with infrared channels; their higher resolution makes the latter two products more popular, but they are not available during most of the night (between 02UTC and 07UTC for GOES-Est, and between 06UTC and 11UTC for GOES-Ouest) given the absence of reflected sunlight. Other RGB products should be added gradually in the future to meet different needs.
Basic view
Metadata Record Information
- File Identifier
- 4564cbf5-9de5-4521-b007-a20d73ad6f89 XML
- Date Stamp
- 2024-03-28T15:06:25
- Metadata language
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy Level
- Dataset
+01-506-451-6010
Data identification
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-02-02
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-11-17
- Status
- On going
- Metadata language
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Continual
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
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Keywords
- Theme
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Atmospheric conditions
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Visible
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Infrared
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Clouds and weather
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Aviation weather
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Convective weather
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Fire weather
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Fog and low stratus
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Snow and ice
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Earth observation
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Satellite images
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Remote sensing
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Meteorology
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Business Functions
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Provide Weather Information Products and Services
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Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients
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Branch
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Meteorological Service of Canada
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Directorate
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Weather and Environmental Operations
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Geography
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International
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- Use Limitation
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Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )
- Access Constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use Constraints
- Other restrictions
- Begin Date
- 2023-11-17
Extent
Ref. system Reference Systems
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution
Distribution Formats
- Distribution format
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WMS
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1.3.0
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GeoTIF
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1.0
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WMS
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1.3.0
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+01-506-451-6010