Activities to explore the effects that time and spatial resolutions can have when interpreting satellite images

Please note that all the webapps on these pages use HTML5 and require an up-to-date browser!

These cases each allow the user to change the temporal and spatial resolution for a series of satellite images.
The webapps are also "touch-friendly" and should run on mobile devices.

*Note that these images are from the pre-operational testing phase of the GOES-16 ABI instrument.

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Convection (visible (0.64um), CO)
Convection (visible (0.64um), TX Panhandle)
Fires (shortwave IR window (3.9um), OK, KS, TX)
Convection (infrared (10.33um), CO)
Convection (infrared (10.33um), TX Panhandle)
Fog (visible (0.64um), OH)
Gravity Wave (water vapor (6.93um)), NM
Fog (visible (0.64um), Strait of Juan de Fuca, WA)
Fires (shortwave IR window (3.9um), KS)
Convection (visible (0.64um), Saskatchewan)
Convection (visible (1.61um), Saskatchewan)
Convection (IR (10.33um), Saskatchewan)

Other Sites
Many weather related applets
GOES-R Education Proving Ground web page
GOES-R web page
Other Rapid Scan imagery from GOES-14

CIMSS Satellite blog from GOES-14

   Unless otherwise noted, all these applets are Copyright© 2014 by Tom Whittaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Many animations provided by Tim Schmit, NOAA NESDIS.