{"id":147,"date":"2006-09-24T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/09\/24\/modis-true-color-snow-cover-and-autumn-color\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T00:54:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T00:54:59","slug":"modis-true-color-snow-cover-and-autumn-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/147","title":{"rendered":"MODIS true color: snow cover, and autumn color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS true color image\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/267\/2006-09-24_1740-1752_USWE_010403_1KM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"378\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"MODIS true color image\" title=\"MODIS true color image\" src=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/267\/2006-09-24_1740-1752_USWE_010403_1KM.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Signs of the Autumn season show up nicely on MODIS true color imagery <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/em> snow cover is gradually becoming established  in parts of the northern and central Rocky Mountains, as well as the northern  Black Hills of South Dakota (close-up MODIS images centered at  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS true color image: Denver CO\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/267\/2006-09-24_1740-1752_HDEN_010403_QKM.jpg\"><strong>Denver, Colorado<\/strong><\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS true color image: Rapid City SD\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/267\/2006-09-24_1740-1752_HRPD_010403_QKM.jpg\"><strong>Rapid City, South Dakota<\/strong><\/a>) &#8212; the snow cover is confirmed by the dark red enhancement in the MODIS false color image <em><strong>(below),<\/strong><\/em> which uses the near-IR Band 7 to detect a strong ice signal. In addition, the amber hues of Fall tree color are beginning to increase across the UP of Michigan <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"photo of trees in UP of Michigan\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/sep24-4.jpg\"><em><strong>(photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/a> into north-central  Wisconsin (close-up MODIS image of <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS true color image: Wisconsin\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/267\/2006-09-24_1740-1752_WISC_010403_QKM.jpg\"><strong>Wisconsin<\/strong><\/a>). The amber colors of the vegetation across much of northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota are due to harvested corn and wheat fields that are now dormant.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS false color image\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/267\/2006-09-24_1740-1752_USWE_020707_1KM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"371\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"MODIS false color image\" title=\"MODIS false color image\" src=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/267\/2006-09-24_1740-1752_USWE_020707_1KM.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs of the Autumn season show up nicely on MODIS true color imagery (above): snow cover is gradually becoming established in parts of the northern and central Rocky Mountains, as well as the northern Black Hills of South Dakota (close-up MODIS images centered at Denver, Colorado and Rapid City, South Dakota) &#8212; the snow cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}