Arctic SDI catalogue
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 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.
Simple
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2024-10-28
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2023-11-17
+01-506-451-6010
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- continual; continue RI_532
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- 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 Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Satellite images
- Remote sensing
- Meteorology
- Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
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- Provide Weather Information Products and Services
- Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients
- Branch Direction Générale ( RI_528 )
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- Meteorological Service of Canada
- Directorate Direction ( RI_528 )
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- Weather and Environmental Operations
- Geography Portée Géographique ( Place )
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- International
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
- Spatial representation type
- grid; grille RI_636
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2023-11-17
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- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
- Distribution format
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WMS
(
1.3.0
)
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GeoTIF
(
1.0
)
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WMS
(
1.3.0
)
+01-506-451-6010
- OnLine resource
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MSC Datamart
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;GeoTIF;eng
- OnLine resource
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MSC Datamart
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;GeoTIF;fra
- OnLine resource
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MSC Datamart AMQP
(
AMQPS
)
Dataset;GeoTIF;eng
- OnLine resource
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MSC Datamart AMQP
(
AMQPS
)
Dataset;GeoTIF;fra
- OnLine resource
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GOES-East Natural Color [1 km]
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OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;eng
- OnLine resource
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GOES-East Natural Color [1 km]
(
OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;fra
- OnLine resource
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MSC Open Data documentation
(
HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;HTML;eng
- OnLine resource
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MSC Open Data documentation
(
HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;HTML;fra
- File identifier
- 4564cbf5-9de5-4521-b007-a20d73ad6f89 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2025-10-07T11:19:03.173Z
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
+01-506-451-6010
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