{"id":31559,"date":"2019-02-04T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=31559"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:54:00","slug":"first-geokompsat-2a-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/31559","title":{"rendered":"First GEOKOMPSAT-2A imagery (in stereo view with Himawari-8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31644\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/First-H-8_GK-2A_stereo_image_labelled_FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31644\" class=\"wp-image-31644\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/First-H-8_GK-2A_stereo_image_labelled_FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/First-H-8_GK-2A_stereo_image_labelled_FINAL.jpg 1193w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/First-H-8_GK-2A_stereo_image_labelled_FINAL-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/First-H-8_GK-2A_stereo_image_labelled_FINAL-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/First-H-8_GK-2A_stereo_image_labelled_FINAL-1024x705.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 (left) and GEO-KOMPSAT-2A (right) Full Disk Imagery, 0310 UTC on 26 January 2019 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) has released its first true-color image created with data from the AMI sensor on the GEOKOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) satellite that was launched in late 2018.\u00a0\u00a0 This first image from GK2A is <strong>experimental and preliminary<\/strong>, just like the initial images from Himawari-8,\u00a0 -9, GOES-16 and GOES-17 were preliminary:\u00a0 all newly-launched satellites go through a check-out period during which radiometric and geometric calibration work is ongoing.\u00a0 That is what is happening with the\u00a0 GK2A satellite now.\u00a0 Despite the preliminary nature of the GK2A imagery, however, it can be paired with Himawari-8 imagery to create stereoscopic views of the Earth &#8212; in true color!\u00a0\u00a0 To view the image pair in three dimensions, cross your eyes until three circles appear, and focus on the circle in the middle;\u00a0 it should appear then as a sphere.<\/p>\n<p>(Image pair courtesy Bodo Zeschke, Australian Bureau of Meteorology ;\u00a0 Himawari image courtesy JMA ; GK2A image courtesy KMA and Dr. Hyesook Park.  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20190129003000320\">GEOKOMPSAT-2A is also known as Chollian-2a<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) has released its first true-color image created with data from the AMI sensor on the GEOKOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) satellite that was launched in late 2018.\u00a0\u00a0 This first image from GK2A is experimental and preliminary, just like the initial images from Himawari-8,\u00a0 -9, GOES-16 and GOES-17 were preliminary:\u00a0 all newly-launched satellites go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":31644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gk2a","category-himawari-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31559","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=31559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31649,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31559\/revisions\/31649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}