OCTANE Night Direction and Speed Products

Today’s challenge was to try and see if we could draw out features better in both the OCTANE Night direction and speed products. The night products rely on IR satellite imagery and the lower resolution washes out a lot of the features we can normally see in daytime imagery. The easiest way to try and attain this was to first play around with the color curves in the IR brightness temp (CH-13-10.35um) overlay. Adjusting the colormap starting with black at 40 to white at -45 back to black at -80 then interpolating the ‘Alpha’.

Original OCTANE Night Color Curve – Direction

 

New OCTANE Night Color Curve – Direction

Original OCTANE Night Color Curve – Speed

New OCTANE Night Color Curve – Speed