Infrared Satellite Imagery

The global infrared satellite image shows clouds by their temperature.

Infrared satellite imagery.

The bar on the right side of the image indicates the pixel brightness values for the corresponding color. The partnership between brazil and china has their own joint mission. The national institute for space research inpe is brazil s space research branch. Visible and infrared imagery.

Displays the temperature of either cloud tops or the earth s surface if the sky is clear. Weather in europe satellite infrared weather europe weather forecast rainfall clouds sun in europe. Please direct all questions and comments regarding goes e goes 16 images to. Displays the temperature of either cloud tops or the earth s surface if the sky is clear.

The united states satellite images displayed are infrared ir images. The intensity value represents emitted infrared radiation. Unless otherwise noted the images linked from this page are located on servers at the satellite products and services division spsd of the national environmental satellite data and information service nesdis. In an infrared ir image cold clouds are high clouds so the colors typically highlight the colder regions.

Interactively zoom and animate weather satellite images from a variety of geostationary satellites. Warmest lowest clouds are shown in white. Watch the infrared imagery for the evening and night. Can be combined with the assumption that temperature decreases with height to allow cloud top heights to be determined.

This imagery combines the latest half hourly goes infrared and visible images with nasa s blue marble data set to create real time animations of weather systems over the continental united states during the past three days. Infrared ir radiation is electromagnetic radiation whose wavelength is. Noaa environmental visualization laboratory real time goes. Can be combined with the assumption that temperature decreases with height to determine cloud top heights.

Coldest highest clouds are displayed in shades of yellow red and purple. The key data set in this catalog is china brazil earth resources cbers 2. Is based on the fact that measuring an object s ir emission tells you something about its temperature. You may also obtain gif and jpeg images from our ftp data server.

Is based on the fact that measuring an object s infrared emission tells you something about its temperature. Sectoring animation of global images and at high resolution for a region of interest. Red and blue areas indicate cold high cloud tops.