False-color satellite imagery offers insight that goes beyond what the human eye can see.
Image of the Day Land Remote Sensing
While a typical digital camera takes one picture of a scene based on information from the visible spectrum, Landsat generates multiple views of everything it images.
Image of the Day Human Presence Remote Sensing
Clouds obscured Kizimen Volcano’s plume in this true-color satellite image, but in false-color the plume shows up clearly.
Volcanoes
One of the satellite’s first uncalibrated images showed where the Front Range meets the Great Plains in Colorado.
Image of the Day Land Fires Unique Imagery Human Presence
Heat Fires
Water Color
Image of the Day Land
The variety of landscapes in southeastern Florida and the northern Everglades illustrates why you might want to see the world in false color.
Image of the Day Land Water Human Presence
In October, the state transitions form north to south with vibrant displays of peak autumn foliage.
A combo of infrared and visible wavelengths exposes the mineral geology around China’s Piqiang Fault.