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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Date ( RI_367 )
2024-10-28
Date ( RI_368 )
2024-10-28
Date ( RI_366 )
2023-11-17
RI_414
  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
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
continual; continue RI_532
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • 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 )
  • Satellite images
  • Remote sensing
  • Meteorology
Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
  • Provide Weather Information Products and Services
  • Deliver Weather Products and Services to Clients
Branch Direction Générale ( RI_528 )
  • Meteorological Service of Canada
Directorate Direction ( RI_528 )
  • Weather and Environmental Operations
Geography Portée Géographique ( Place )
  • 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
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
2023-11-17
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

  • GeoTIF ( 1.0 )

RI_412
  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
OnLine resource
MSC Datamart ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GeoTIF;eng

OnLine resource
MSC Datamart ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GeoTIF;fra

OnLine resource
MSC Datamart AMQP ( AMQPS )

Dataset;GeoTIF;eng

OnLine resource
MSC Datamart AMQP ( AMQPS )

Dataset;GeoTIF;fra

OnLine resource
GOES-West Natural Color [1 km] ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
GOES-West Natural Color [1 km] ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
MSC Open Data documentation ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
MSC Open Data documentation ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;fra

File identifier
bde9b113-ab40-4d7f-a501-5cbb0b55805c XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-10-28T09:40:37.955Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  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
 
 

Overviews

overview
ecdc_thumbnail_satellite-goes-west.jpg

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