GOES-17 / GOES-16 True Color Composite

By Scott Bachmeier • 26 November 2018

GOES-17 / GOES-16 True Color RGB composite [click to enlarge]

* GOES-17 imagery posted here is preliminary and non-operational *

A composite of GOES-17 and GOES-16 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) imagery (above) was created by blending a total of 59 north-south swaths — each swath within +/- 23 minutes of “local Noon” (for example, the blue swaths using GOES-16) — during the period beginning at 1115 UTC on 26 November (over the eastern Atlantic Ocean and far western Africa, using GOES-16) and ending at 0200 UTC on 27 November 2018 (over the western Pacific Ocean, using GOES-17). Since the GOES-16/17 ABI does not have a true “Green” (0.51 µm) spectral band, that component of the RGB image is simulated using other Near-Infrared bands.

For perspective, the GOES-17/GOES-16 True Color composite is overlaid on a global “Blue Marble” background (below), which helps to emphasize the total areal coverage provided by the GOES-R constellation.

GOES-17 / GOES-16 True Color RGB composite [click to enlarge]

Surface analyses from 12 UTC on 26 November to 00 UTC on 27 November [click to enlarge]

Categories: GOES-16, GOES-17, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images