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US & Canada Satellite

Plains Regional Satellite Image

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<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https://f5wx.com/satellite/'>
<img src='https://f5wx.com/satellite/live/ir_plains.gif' alt='F5Weather Satellite'>
<p>Live satellite from F5Weather</a></div>

Great Plains Live Regional Satellite Image

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Our satellite depiction is from CIRA/NOAA. It uses Infrared bands at night and Visible satellite during the day. The city lights used during the night are not a live image, but rather a image underlay used to help with orientation and aesthetics. During sunrise and sunset, you will see the light->dark or dark->light band cross the map as the imagery transitions to and from infrared and visible satellite imagery. We reproject and crop the image to fit our needs, which include adding state lines, counties and making subregions to zoom into.

From CIRA/NOAA: "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)."

You are free to embed our satellite graphics into your web site using the code at the top of this page. As you zoom in on our maps you get a new code for each view. We just ask that you keep a link and credit to F5Weather as a source for the graphics.