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Satellite Imagery - GOES-West

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.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
bde9b113-ab40-4d7f-a501-5cbb0b55805c XML
Date Stamp
2024-10-28T09:40:37.955Z
Metadata language

eng; CAN

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada

77 Westmorland Street, suite 260, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 6Z4, Canada
+01-819-997-2800

+01-506-451-6010

 

Data identification

Title

Satellite Imagery - GOES-West

Date (Publication)
2024-10-28
Date (Revision)
2024-10-28
Date (Creation)
2023-11-17
Status
On going
Metadata language

eng; CAN

Character set
utf8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Continual
Spatial representation type
Grid
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada

77 Westmorland Street, suite 260, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 6Z4, Canada
+01-819-997-2800

+01-506-451-6010

Keywords

Theme
  • Atmospheric conditions

  • Visible

  • Infrared

  • Clouds and weather

  • Aviation weather

  • Convective weather

  • Fire weather

  • Fog and low stratus

  • Snow and ice

  • Earth observation

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Satellite images

  • Remote sensing

  • Meteorology

Business Functions

  • Provide Weather Information Products and Services

  • Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients

Branch

  • Meteorological Service of Canada

Directorate

  • Weather and Environmental Operations

Geography

  • International

 
Use Limitation

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

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • WMS ( 1.3.0)

  • GeoTIF ( 1.0)

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Meteorological Service of Canada

77 Westmorland Street, suite 260, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 6Z4, Canada
+01-819-997-2800

+01-506-451-6010

 
 

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Keywords

Atmospheric conditions Aviation weather Clouds and weather Convective weather Earth observation Fire weather Fog and low stratus Infrared Snow and ice Visible
Branch

Meteorological Service of Canada
Business Functions

Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients Provide Weather Information Products and Services
Directorate

Weather and Environmental Operations
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Meteorology Remote sensing Satellite images


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