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8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
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dataset
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
01235446432
RAL Space
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Didcot
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
pointOfContact
2024-03-19T00:04:02
UK GEMINI
2.3
WGS 84
MSG: RGB 'False Colour' 321 product daytime imagery over Europe and the East Atlantic
2007-02-20T10:42:25
publication
2007-02-20T10:42:25
creation
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a6150cae12b0463b891ebd35056dca6c
a6150cae12b0463b891ebd35056dca6c
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
The Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, operated by EUMETSAT (The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), provide almost continuous imagery to meteorologists and researchers in Europe and around the world. These include visible, infra-red, water vapour, High Resolution Visible (HRV) images and derived cloud top height, cloud top temperature, fog, snow detection and volcanic ash products. These images are available for a range of geographical areas.
This dataset contains RGB 'False Colour' 321 product images from MSG satellites over Europe and the East Atlantic. Imagery available from March 2005 onwards at a frequency of 15 minutes (some are hourly) and are at least 24 hours old.
RGB images are composite images generated by combining two or more channels and displaying in colour. The naming convention describes which channel is assigned to the red, green and blue colours. For example RGB 321 means that channel 3 (1.6 micron) is on the red, channel 2 (0.8 micron) is on the green and channel 1 (0.6 micron) is on the blue. This combination can then highlight different physical features through the differing amounts of red, green and blue and hence give a unique colour to that feature. In this case, turquoise clouds contain ice crystals, whilst white clouds are water clouds (inc. fog). Vegetation creates a green signal and sandy areas are pink. Snow covered ground is turquoise.
Note: a change in product can be seen from a change to software implemented on 25/11/2013 where the scaling and gamma correction of the R, G, and B channels were tuned to give an improved image, in effect lightening the brighter colours in the image image.
The geographic extent for images within this datasets is available via the linked documentation 'MSG satellite imagery product geographic area details'. Each MSG imagery product area can be referenced from the third and fourth character of the image product name giving in the filename. E.g. for EEAO11 the corresponding geographic details can be found under the entry for area code 'AO' (i.e West Africa).
Met Office
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EUMETSAT
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author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
custodian
01235446432
RAL Space
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Didcot
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
distributor
01235446432
RAL Space
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Didcot
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
distributor
unknown
principal_investigator
unknown
principalInvestigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
point_of_contact
01235446432
RAL Space
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Didcot
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
publisher
01235446432
RAL Space
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Didcot
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
publisher
notPlanned
dataset
MSG
Snow
Satellites
Europe
atmospheric conditions
theme
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
otherRestrictions
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
otherRestrictions
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/msg.pdf . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
grid
English
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
-54.597
57.4401
25.125
55.559
2005-04-26T23:00:00
2005-06-06T22:59:59
Images are GIF formatted
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Data Center Contact
01235446432
RAL Space
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Didcot
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
support@ceda.ac.uk
distributor
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a6150cae12b0463b891ebd35056dca6c
CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
information
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/msg/data/hritimages/EEEH11
DOWNLOAD
Download Data
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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Meteosat_Second_Generation/How_MSG_works
Meteosat Second Generation
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information
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/msg/MetOffice_SatImagery_AreaCodes_CEDA_v2.pdf
MSG satellite imagery geographic area codes and bounding box information.
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information
dataset
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
Data obtained by satellite from March 2005, prepared by the Met Office and stored in the BADC archive.