{"id":28920,"date":"2018-07-12T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28920"},"modified":"2018-07-12T21:49:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T21:49:02","slug":"stereoscopic-views-of-convection-using-goes-16-and-goes-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28920","title":{"rendered":"Stereoscopic views of Convection using GOES-16 and GOES-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28921\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/GOES16_GOES17_VIS_11JULY_1202_to_1907annot_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28921\" class=\"wp-image-28921\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/GOES16_GOES17_VIS_11JULY_1202annot.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 (Left) and GOES-17 (Right) Visible (0.64 ) imagery, 1202-1907 UTC on 11 July 2018 (Click to play mp4 animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-17 is currently in the test position at 89.5\u00ba W Longitude, and GOES-16 is at the GOES-East location at 75.2\u00ba W Longitude. This close spacing longitudinally means that stereoscopic three-dimensional views of visible imagery can be produced. The mp4 animation above (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/GOES16_GOES17_VIS_11JULY_1202_to_1907annot_anim.gif\">here<\/a> for an animated gif) shows convection over the Tennessee River valley from 1202 through 1907 UTC on 11 July 2018 (with some gaps in time when GOES-17 data were not received).<\/p>\n<p>To view the animation in three dimensions, cross your eyes so that three separate images are present.\u00a0 Focus on the image in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Added, courtesy of Rick Kohrs, SSEC: When you create a Stretched &#8216;True Color&#8217; image from the first 3 Channels on GOES-16\/GOES-17, you can also see the curvature of the Earth in the stereoscopic view!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28926\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/GOES16_GOES17_FullDisk_StretchedRGB_1400_12July2018stereo_annot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28926\" class=\"wp-image-28926\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/GOES16_GOES17_FullDisk_StretchedRGB_1400_12July2018stereo_annot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stretched CIMSS Natural True Color imagery, combining Bands 1-3 on GOES-16 and GOES-17, 1400 UTC on 12 July 2018 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>GOES-17 imagery in this blog post is preliminary and non-operational.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-17 is currently in the test position at 89.5\u00ba W Longitude, and GOES-16 is at the GOES-East location at 75.2\u00ba W Longitude. This close spacing longitudinally means that stereoscopic three-dimensional views of visible imagery can be produced. The mp4 animation above (Click here for an animated gif) shows convection over the Tennessee River valley from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":28921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-goes-17"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28920"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28929,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920\/revisions\/28929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}