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Jul 21 2015, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Here is a real-time full color view of the Earth from the Himawari satellite, updated every half hour or so. This geostationary weather satellite is stationed over the longitude of Japan. The view is complete with orange sunglint off the ocean. You can click on the link to see the latest update.
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/largec.html?ar...=1&mode=UTC I previously posted this high resolution sample image in the Whole Earth Images thread. We can look around for the full resolution real-time data archive that would be about 11000 pixels wide. -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Nov 13 2015, 03:19 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 15-February 14 Member No.: 7141 |
Thanks for saying so I went away on vacation, and when I got back, I realized my scripts had gone haywire while I was gone. Due to a combination of lack of spare time, code bugs, and what I eventually diagnosed as bad Linux support for my hard drive's file system format, I haven't quite gotten the whole pipeline fully running again yet. But I just got a new drive which I'm reformatting and plan to try again tonight.
More excitingly, I've been in contact with Steve Miller at NOAA/CIRA who just returned from Tokyo where he presented their awesome new Himawari 8 Geocolor product (as well as one of my interpolated videos ). Geocolor adds night coverage via a combination of infrared cloud imagery and a static city lights background layer. It's similar to their GOES Geocolor product. From an email: QUOTE CIRA has been working on generating Steve Miller's Geocolor product from Himawari-8. There are three notable improvements over the GOES version: 1) The daytime background is no longer static - the daytime imagery is now the Hybrid Atmospherically Corrected True Color 2) The nighttime city lights are based on a new 1-km dataset built from 1 year of VIIRS Day Night Band data. The lights are still static, but the resolution is improved over the GOES version. 3) The product is higher resolution in both space (1 km) and time (10 minutes) for the full disk. For the nighttime portion, white colors are high ice clouds, and the reddish colors represent lower liquid water clouds. We of course plan to generate a similar product from the GOES-R ABI. The current version from Himawari is experimental and we'll be working on improvements over the next year. This replaces their previous RGB daytime product, so as of 2015-11-11 20:40 all of the images in the RAMMB/CIRA archive have night-time Geocolor coverage. You'll see these showing up in my new videos on Youtube in a day or two. Very cool stuff. -d |
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