South American Cirrus Clouds
Looking through cirrus clouds over part of South America.
This visualization was made to demonstrate a technique developed by scientists to remove clouds from data images by using cloud data. Initially, you will see a portion of South America with the clouds obstructing the view, then fades to a mask to mask out the clouds, and then removes the clouds from the view, leaving the view of South America unobstructed.
Chart showing side-by-side images of before the clouds are removed (far left), the cloud mask (center), and after the clouds are removed (far right).
South America before cloud removal
South America after cloud removal
Cirrus clouds mask
Video slate image reads,
"Cirrus clouds over South America".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Yoram Kaufman (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, April 19, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116
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