Feature Identification » Identifying Surface Features » Vegetation

Vegetated surfaces are darker than deserts in visible imagery. In infrared imagery, the temperature of deserts varies more with diurnal heating than vegetated areas. So vegetated areas are cooler in daytime and warmer at night than deserts. In the natural colour RGB, vegetated areas are green.

Visible

EUMETSAT visible over southern Africa, 1200 UTC 26 Jun 2016

Infrared (Day)

EUMETSAT infrared over southern Africa, 1200 UTC 26 Jun 2016

Infrared (Night)

EUMETSAT infrared over southern Africa, 0000 UTC 26 Jun 2016

Natural colour RGB

EUMETSAT natural colour RGB over Africa, 1200 UTC 26 Jun 2016