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GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0046 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0051 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0056 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0101 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0106 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0111 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0116 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0121 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0126 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0131 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0136 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 20 Jul 2025 - 0141 UTC
GeoColor is a multispectral product composed of True Color (using a simulated green component) during daytime, and an Infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. During the day, the imagery looks approximately as it would when viewed with human eyes from space. At night, the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus, while gray to white indicate higher ice clouds, and the city lights come from a static database derived from the VIIRS Day Night Band.
GeoColor was developed at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) and the STAR Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB). For a full description of the algorithm, please see this article.
Please credit CIRA/NOAA when using GeoColor imagery.
NOTE: Lighted areas shown in nighttime images are not real-time depictions of city lights. The layer is derived from a compilation of JPSS VIIRS Day Night Band images and is included for orientation purposes.
