Generation of GOES‐16 True Color Imagery without a Green Band

Abstract

AbstractA number of approaches have been developed to generate true color images from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)‐16. GOES‐16 is the first of a series of four spacecraft with the ABI onboard. These approaches are complicated since the ABI does not have a green (0.55 μm) spectral band. Despite this limitation, representative true color images can be built. A methodology for generating color images from the ABI is discussed, along with corresponding examples from the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera on Deep Space Climate Observatory.