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Current Australian Region Satellite Images

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Note: Infrared images are about 110KB each, and Visible images between 40 and 140KB each.

The satellite images above are obtained from the GOES-9 satellite and are provided with the permission of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the United States' National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Any use of these images requires the following acknowledgement: "GMS-5 backup with GOES-9 operated by the joint effort of JMA and US NOAA NESDIS over the western Pacific."

The types of images available are:

• IR satellite images. The time stamp on the images is the start time of the reception of the top of the image from the satellite. It takes approximately 30 minutes for GOES-9 to complete a scan and the image is available on the Web within 30 minutes of completion, i.e an hour after the time stamp.
• Visible satellite images . Note that images toward the beginning and end of each day show large black areas because those areas are un-illuminated by the rising or setting sun.

GOES-9 images are available every hour. Hourly full-disk images (i.e. from pole to pole) will begin at 25 minutes past the hour e.g. 12:25 UTC.

The time stamp on the images are in UTC which is 10 hours behind Australian EST. The images supplied here are 12 kilometre resolution 640x512 pixel Lambert conformal projections, standard latitudes 30S and 50S and meridian 130E, at 5 bits per pixel.

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