Earth  ID: 3254

GOES-12 Imagery of Hurricane Katrina: Visible Close-up (WMS)

Visualizations by Horace Mitchell Released on October 5, 2005
The GOES-12 satellite sits at 75 degrees west longitude at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers over the equator, in geosynchronous orbit. At this position its Imager instrument takes pictures of cloud patterns in several wavelengths for all of North and South America, a primary measurement used in weather forecasting. The Imager takes a pattern of pictures of parts of the Earth in several wavelengths all day, measurements that are vital in weather forecasting. This animation shows a daily sequence of GOES-12 images in the visible wavelengths, from 0.52 to 0.72 microns, during the period that Hurricane Katrina passed through the Gulf of Mexico. At one kilometer resolution, the visible band measurement is the highest resolution data from the Imager, which accounts for the very high level of detail in these images. For this animation, the cloud data was extracted from GOES image and laid over a background color image of the southeast United States.
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Imagery of Hurricane Katrina from August 23, 2005 to August 30, 2005 from the Imager instrument on GOES-12.

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Visualization Credits

Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Dennis Chesters (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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Data Used:
GOES-12/Imager/Visible
2005-08-23T17:45Z - 2005-08-30T17:45
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Dates of Data Used:
2005-08-23T17:45Z - 2005-08-30T17:45

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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Phenomena >> Hurricanes
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Natural Hazards >> Meteorological Hazards
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Spectral/Engineering >> Visible Wavelengths >> Visible Imagery
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> GOES
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0