Contact Information 5. These imagers span nearly the entire globe with a small gap over India. The data resolution is 14 km spatial with the data remapped into a Mercator projection. This allows for navigation and temperature calibration of the data. However, the data has not necessarily been cross calibrated between sensors.
Daily granules are available at half-hour intervals.
The composite image is produced at the United States Storms Prediction Center which is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Each file contains one day's data which consists of 48 images. An Introduction , Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1995.