Real-Time Image

Region			File Index
Full Disk
Full disk			Filelist

Region			File Index
Oceania , Pacific Islands
Australia (110 E, 10 S - 155 E, 45 S)			Filelist
New Zealand (155 E, 25 S - 170 W, 60 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 1 (130 E, 25 N - 65 E, 5 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 2 (155 E, 20 N - 175 W, 5 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 3 (140 E, 0 - 160 W, 25 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 4 (172 E, 9 S - 167 W, 26 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 5 (156 E, 9 S - 178 E, 26 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 6 (149 E, 1 S - 178 E, 26 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 7 (168 E, 1 N - 170 W, 17 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 8 (172 W, 6 S - 153.5 W, 24.5 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 9 (170 E, 10 N - 153 W, 10.0 S)			Filelist
Pacific Islands 10 (138 E, 3 N - 156.5 W, 15.5 S)			Filelist

Region			File Index
Japan, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia
Japan (115 E, 48 N - 155 E, 22 N)			Filelist
Central Asia ( 70 E, 55 N - 120 E, 25 N)			Filelist
Southeast Asia 1 (80 E, 30 N - 115 E, 0 N)			Filelist
Southeast Asia 2 (105 E, 30 N - 140 E, 0 N)			Filelist
Southeast Asia 3 (90 E, 10 N - 145 E, 15 S)			Filelist
South Asia (70 E, 30 N - 100 E, 0 N)			Filelist

Region			File Index
High-Resolution Asia
High-Resolution Asia 1 (99 E, 16 N - 110E, 7 N)			Filelist
High-Resolution Asia 2 (78 E, 32 N - 92 E, 22 N)			Filelist
High-Resolution Asia 3 (84 E, 27 N - 95 E, 18 N)			Filelist
High-Resolution Asia 4 (97.5 E, 4.5 N - 107.2 E, 3 S)			Filelist
High-Resolution Asia 5 (75 E,12 N - 86 E, 3.2 N) (Sri Lanka)			Filelist
High-Resolution Asia 6 (120 E, 6 S - 129 E, 13.5 S) (Timor-Leste)			Filelist

Region			File Index
High-Resolution Pacific Islands
High-Resolution Pacific Islands 1 (155.3 E, 6.2 S - 167.5 E, 12.2 S) (Solomon Islands)			Filelist
High-Resolution Pacific Islands 2 (164.5 E, 12.5 S - 172 E, 21.5 S) (Vanuatu)			Filelist
High-Resolution Pacific Islands 3 (175 E, 14.0 S - 176 W, 21.5 S) (Fiji)			Filelist

Region			File Index
Imagery with heavy rainfall potential areas
Southeast Asia (90 E, 30N - 165 E, 15 S)			Filelist
South Pacific Islands (140 E, 10N - 145 W, 35 S)			Filelist
High-Resolution Pacific Islands		Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Micronesia (Palikir, Weno), Palau, Kiribati, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Niue	Filelist

Region			File Index
Target Area Observation
Target Area		Tropical cyclone or volcanic ash	Filelist
Observation area of "Target Area"			Filelist
Supplementary Information
History of observation position about Target Area

Region			File Index
ASWind (AMV-based Sea-surface Wind) for Tropical Cyclone Monitoring
ASWind		ASWind for Tropical Cyclone	-

Terms of reference

All usage of True Color Reproduction (TCR) imagery provided here is subject to the Terms of Use for the MSC/JMA website. The content of 1), 2) and 3) below should also be included with any usage of such TCR imagery.

1) True Color Reproduction imagery

True Color Reproduction (TCR) technology enables the display of earth images taken from space in a way that is familiar to the human eye. The imagery consists of data from three visible bands (Band 1, 2 and 3), one near-infrared band (Band 4) and one infrared band (Band 13). To reproduce colors as seen by the human eye, RGB signals observed by AHI are converted into CIE XYZ values and reconverted into RGB signals for output devices compliant with sRGB (an international standard for RGB color space) (Murata et al., 2018). In this process, as an alternative to the bi-spectral hybrid green method outlined by Miller et al. (2016), the green band is optimally adjusted using Band 2, 3 and 4. To make the imagery more vivid, atmospheric correction (Rayleigh correction, Miller et al., 2016) is also applied to AHI Bands 1-4. Software for this purpose was provided by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) established by NOAA/NESDIS and Colorado State University in United States of America.

2) Acknowledgement

The imagery was developed on the basis of collaboration between the JMA Meteorological Satellite Center and the NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-R Algorithm Working Group imagery team. We would like to acknowledge them for the collaboration and their permission to use the software.

3) Reference

Murata, H., K. Saitoh, Y. Sumida, 2018: True color imagery rendering for Himawari-8 with a color reproduction approach based on the CIE XYZ color system. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan. doi: 10.2151/jmsj. 2018-049

Miller, S., T. Schmit, C. Seaman, D. Lindsey, M. Gunshor, R. Kohrs, Y. Sumida, and D. Hillger, 2016: A Sight for Sore Eyes - The Return of True Color to Geostationary Satellites. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00154.1

Organization names and abbreviations

In cases where the inclusion of 1), 2) and 3) above is impractical, the following three organization names and/or their abbreviations should be listed as a minimum.