Parallax from Geostationary Satellites
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GOES-West (Full Disk)
GOES-West (CONUS)
GOES-West (Alaska)
GOES-West (American Samoa)
GOES-East (Full Disk)
GOES-East (CONUS)
GOES-East (Canada)
Himawari (Full Disk)
Himawari (American Samoa)

  These interactive examples demonstrate the concept of parallax from a geostationary orbit, including several questions.


Other Sites
Other GOES-R Series Webapps
GOES-R Series Program web page
GOES-R Series list of links

References
A. C. Bernal Ayala, J. J. Gerth, T. J. Schmit, S. S. Lindstrom, and J. P. Nelson III, 2023: Parallax shift in GOES ABI data. J. Operational Meteor., 11 (2), 14-23, link to the paper



   Unless otherwise noted, all these webapps are Copyright© 2014 by Tom Whittaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Images provided by the SSEC Data Center, Jim Nelson, CIMSS or Tim Schmit, NOAA NESDIS.