New enhancement added to IR images

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New enhancement added to IR images

#1 Postby wxmann_91 » Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:43 pm

Codenamed "Fire".

Intriguingly, it has been added to EPAC sat images, but not ATL images.

See
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/tpac.html
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#2 Postby Aquawind » Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:47 pm

Fire = IR Channel 2 with fire enhancement

Is it really a codename or something related to picking up fires over the pacific? :lol:
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Re: New enhancement added to IR images

#3 Postby timeflow » Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:18 pm

The Fire IR2 images appear to be in the tropical atlantic archive from which the main page pulls images, but they didn't create links to them for some reason... http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/img/ listed with "ir2f" in the filenames. Every few days I use HTTrack to grab all these files, and a small batch file I created to sort them into folders for each type. These are fun to watch as fast slideshows. I kind of like the JSL images right now. Nice blue color, silvery clouds and red tops.
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Re: New enhancement added to IR images

#4 Postby WindRunner » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:27 pm

wxmann_91 wrote:Codenamed "Fire".

Intriguingly, it has been added to EPAC sat images, but not ATL images.

See
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/tpac.html



No, no codename. Just something used by SSD/SAB to find wildfires quickly . . . they will show up as "blazing" white on that image, as it allows the heat of the fires (it is an infrared image, for the heat) to stand out from the rest of our relatively cool and mundane earth . . .
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#5 Postby Chacor » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:38 pm

I dunno... to me I just thought it was an inverse-colour IR. :lol:
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