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GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 1926 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 1931 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 1936 UTC
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GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 1946 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 1951 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 1956 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 2001 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 2006 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 2011 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 2016 UTC
GeoColor - True Color daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Nov 2025 - 2021 UTC
GeoColor is a multispectral product composed of True Color (using a simulated green component) during daytime, and an Infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. During the day, the imagery looks approximately as it would when viewed with human eyes from space. At night, the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus, while gray to white indicate higher ice clouds, and the city lights come from a static database derived from the VIIRS Day Night Band.
GeoColor was developed at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) and the STAR Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB). For a full description of the algorithm, please see this article.
Please credit CIRA/NOAA when using GeoColor imagery.
NOTE: Lighted areas shown in nighttime images are not real-time depictions of city lights. The layer is derived from a compilation of JPSS VIIRS Day Night Band images and is included for orientation purposes.
