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pietern / goestools

Tools to work with signals and files from GOES satellites
https://pietern.github.io/goestools/
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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True Color #38

Closed njbrown09 closed 5 years ago

njbrown09 commented 5 years ago

Is it possible to get true color images from GOES-16? Something like this https://engelsjk.com/posts/goes-16-true-color-animation-using-python/images/true-color.png

pietern commented 5 years ago

This is not possible. The true color composite requires channels 1, 2, and 13, to my knowledge. The HRIT stream doesn't include channel 1, therefore it is not possible to create the same composite. The false color composite, which is included, is generated by composing only channels 2 and 13.