{"id":35064,"date":"2019-11-14T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=35064"},"modified":"2019-11-20T22:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:58:25","slug":"using-geokompsat-2-and-himawari-8-imagery-to-create-stereoscopic-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/35064","title":{"rendered":"Using GEOKOMPSAT-2 and Himawari-8 Imagery to create Stereoscopic Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35065\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/HIMAWARI-8-GEO-KOMPSAT-2A_AMI_VI006_20191114_0400_0500_GK2AH8StereoSmall_step-scaled.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35065\" class=\"wp-image-35065\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/HIMAWARI-8-GEO-KOMPSAT-2A_AMI_VI006_20191114_0400_0500_GK2AH8StereoSmall_step.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Imagery from Himawari-8 (left) and GEOKOMPSAT-2A (right) at 0400 and 0500 UTC on 14 Nov 2019 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Geostationary data from <a href=\"http:\/\/203.247.66.167\/html\/homepage\/en\/ver2\/main.do\">KMA<\/a>&#8216;s GEOKOMPSAT-2 satellite (over the Equator at 128\u00ba E Longitude, shown above at right) and from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\">JMA<\/a>&#8216;s Himawari-8 Satellite (over the Equator at 140\u00ba E Longitude, shown above at left) can be used to create stereoscopic imagery. The imagery above, from <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/HIMAWARI-8-GEO-KOMPSAT-2A_AMI_VI006_20191114_040031_GK2AH8StereoSmall-scaled.png\">0400<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/HIMAWARI-8-GEO-KOMPSAT-2A_AMI_VI006_20191114_050031_GK2AH8StereoSmall-scaled.png\">0500<\/a> UTC on 14 November 2019, centered at 15\u00ba N, 150\u00ba E, shows Typhoon Fengshen. Visible imagery from both satellites show a well-developed central cluster of thunderstorms with little apparent indication of wind shear. Stereoscopic views of the storm allow the vertical structure of the system to be perceived.<\/p>\n<p>Data processing for these images was accomplished using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/introduction.html\">Geo2Grid<\/a>, a software package that incorporates <a href=\"https:\/\/satpy.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/\">Satpy<\/a>. (Previous Blog posts discussing Geo2Grid are <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32318\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32399\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Very grateful acknowledgement of these data from <a href=\"http:\/\/203.247.66.167\/html\/homepage\/en\/ver2\/main.do\">KMA<\/a> and from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\">JMA<\/a> is extended. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Added:\u00a0 Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/HIMAWARI-8-GEO-KOMPSAT-2A_AMI_VI006_20191114_0300_to_0550_GK2AH8StereoSmall_anim.gif\">here<\/a> for an animation from 0300 to 0550 UTC on 14 November.\u00a0 (Warning:\u00a0 Large animated gif at 159 M).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geostationary data from KMA&#8216;s GEOKOMPSAT-2 satellite (over the Equator at 128\u00ba E Longitude, shown above at right) and from JMA&#8216;s Himawari-8 Satellite (over the Equator at 140\u00ba E Longitude, shown above at left) can be used to create stereoscopic imagery. The imagery above, from 0400 and 0500 UTC on 14 November 2019, centered at 15\u00ba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":35066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35064","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\/35064","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=35064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35078,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064\/revisions\/35078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}