CAMEX-3 GOES-8 Products: Visible, Infrared, and Water Vapor Satellite Imagery

Three channels of satellite imagery from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8 (GOES-8) were collected and archived for the third Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-3). The channels include visible (0.65 microns), infrared (11 microns), and water vapor (6.75 microns) wavelengths. The dataset is provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Use Cases

• Analyzing atmospheric convection patterns based on water vapor channel imagery.
• Studying cloud cover and surface features based on visible channel imagery.
• Measuring atmospheric temperature profiles based on infrared channel imagery.
• Monitoring weather system development based on multi-channel satellite data.

Strengths

• Data originates from the GOES-8 satellite, a known operational environmental satellite.
• Includes imagery from three distinct spectral channels: visible, infrared, and water vapor.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• File formats are BIN and HTML, which may require specialized tools for processing.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Imagery collected and archived from the GOES-8 satellite.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 07:11:24.821125; freshness should be verified.