Satellite Imagery/title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="../teacher.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT>  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" rightmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <table width=112% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0> <tr><td width="770" align=center background="../images/top_bg.gif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF" size = "5"><b> <br>Interpreting Satellite Imagery </b></font></td> </tr> </table> <table width=770 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0> <tr> <td width=121 height="805" align=center valign=top><img src="../images/left_bg.gif" width=121 height=20> <img src="../images/left_bg.gif" width=121 height=30> <img src="../images/uw_logo.gif" width="121" height="106" alt="UW-Madison logo"> <img src="../images/left_bg.gif" width=121 height=30> <img src="../images/cimss_logo.gif" width="121" height="78" alt="CIMSS logo"> <img src="../images/left_bg.gif" width=121 height=30> <img src="../images/ssec_logo.gif" width="121" height="99" alt="SSEC logo"> <img src="../images/left_bg.gif" width=121 height=50> <img src="../images/left_bg.gif" width=121 height=292> </td> <td width="*" valign=top><div align="center" class="style1"> <strong>A visible satellite image</strong> depicts sunlight scattered (reflected) by objects suspended in the atmosphere or on Earth. </div> <table> <td width="321"><p class="style1"> <center><a href="wxwise/VisThick.html"><img src="VISsmall.jpg" width="237" height="177" border="1"></a></center> </td> <td width="316"><div align="center"><span class="style1"><a href="wxwise/VisThick.html">Click here</a> or on the image to explore the properties of <strong>visible images</strong>. </span></div></td> </table> <div align="left"><span class="style1"> <strong>Infrared (IR) satellite images</strong> depict radiation emitted by clouds or on Earth. </span> </div> <table width="649"> <td width="317"><center><a href="wxwise/IRCloud.html"><img src="IRsmall.jpg" width="237" height="177" border="1"></a></center></td> <td width="320"><div align="center"><span class="style1"><a href="wxwise/IRCloud.html">Click here</a> or on the image to explore the properties of <strong>IR Images.</strong> </span></div></td> </table> <span class="style1"><strong> Water Vapor satellite images</strong> depict IR radiation in the upper atmosphere. </span> <table> <td width="316"><span class="style1"> <center><a href="water_vapor/WV.html"><img src="WVsmall.jpg" width="237" height="177" border="1"></a> </center> </td> <td width="321"> <div align="center" class="style1"><a href="water_vapor/WV.html">Click here</a> or on the image to explore the properties of <strong>Water Vapor Images.</strong> </div></td> </table> <p></p> <div align="center" class="style1">Go <a href="../index.html"><strong>BACK</strong></a> to the <strong><em>explore more satellite activities</em></strong></div></td> </tr> </table> </table> <p align="center"> </body> </html>