The same three imagery products are available for each satellite as part of this initial release: Red Visible, which can be used for analyzing daytime clouds, fog, insolation, and winds Clean Infrared Product, which provides cloud top temperature and information about precipitation and Air Mass RGB, which enables the differentiation between air mass types (e.g., dry air, moist air, etc.). GOES-R logo courtesy of NOAA Himawari-8 logo courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency.įull-disk Earth imagery products from the joint NASA/NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-East (GOES-East) and GOES-West satellites along with full-disk imagery from the Japan Meteorological Agency Himawari-8 satellite enable storms, wildfires, and other events to be tracked as they are occurring across most of the globe (the only areas not covered are Europe, Africa, and the North and South Poles). GOES-17, the second satellite in the GOES-R Series, launched on March 1, 2018, and is operational as GOES-West. Originally published on -16, the first satellite in the GOES-R Series, launched on November 19, 2016, and is operational as GOES-East. This story was updated on May 8 to include details on the student participation in the HD Earth Viewing experiment.įollow Mike Wall on Twitter and Google+. UrtheCast also aims to sell its imagery to a variety of customers, including government agencies interested in tracking resource use and private companies that want to keep tabs on their operations (and perhaps the operations of their competitors). UrtheCast released the first images from Theia last month and plans to begin streaming near-realtime views of Earth from orbit soon, bringing lots of viewers to their website. These two cameras, which together cost $17 million, were installed by spacewalking cosmonauts in January. One of them, known as Theia, takes pictures with a resolution of 16.5 feet (5 meters), while the other camera records video that can resolve details as small as 3 feet (1 m) across. The Vancouver-based company UrtheCast (pronounced "Earthcast") has two HD cameras on the orbiting lab.
HDEV isn't the only Earth-imaging project aboard on the International Space Station.
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