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These products are derived from RGB (red/green/blue) images, a satellite processing technique that uses a combination of satellite sensor bands (also called channels) and applies a red/green/blue (RGB) filter to each of them. The result is a false-color image, i.e. an image that does not correspond to what the human eye would see, but offers high contrast between different cloud types and surface features. The on-board sensor of a weather satellite obtains two basic types of information: visible light data (reflected light) reflecting off clouds and different surface types, also known as "reflectance", and infrared data (emitted radiation) which are long-wave radiations emitted by clouds and surface features. RGBs are specially designed to combine this type of satellite data, resulting in an information-rich final product. Four types of products are currently generated from the GOES-West and GOES-East satellites: "NightIR" and "NightMicrophysics", at 2km resolution, are generated 24 hours a day with infrared channels, so are visible both night and day, and "NaturalColour" and "DayCloudConvection", at 1km resolution, which combine visible light channels with infrared channels; their higher resolution makes the latter two products more popular, but they are not available during most of the night (between 02UTC and 07UTC for GOES-Est, and between 06UTC and 11UTC for GOES-Ouest) given the absence of reflected sunlight. Other RGB products should be added gradually in the future to meet different needs.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
MSC Datamart AMQP	Unknown		amqps://dd.meteo.gc.ca/*.WXO-DD.satellite.goes.west.#
MSC Datamart AMQP	Unknown		amqps://dd.weather.gc.ca/*.WXO-DD.satellite.goes.west.#
MSC Datamart	Unknown		https://dd.meteo.gc.ca/today/satellite/goes/west/
MSC Datamart	Unknown		https://dd.weather.gc.ca/today/satellite/goes/west/
MSC Open Data documentation	HTML		https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/obs_satellite/readme_satellite-datamart_en/
MSC Open Data documentation	HTML		https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/obs_satellite/readme_satellite-datamart_fr/
GOES-West Natural Color [1 km]	WMS		https://geo.meteo.gc.ca/geomet?lang=fr&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&layers=GOES-West_1km_NaturalColor
GOES-West Natural Color [1 km]	WMS		https://geo.weather.gc.ca/geomet?lang=en&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&layers=GOES-West_1km_NaturalColor

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