How to create or adapt an RGB scheme
Competency Framework
WMO Satellite Skills
Application
Description
This document summarizes how to create a new RGB scheme and how to adapt an existing RGB for a new imager.
Content
RGB images can be composed in many different ways. To avoid ambiguity and incorrect interpretations, WMO and EUMETSAT work to standardize the RGB images used by weather forecasters. Experts develop optimized methods to create RGB images that provide high quality visual information about specific features. The use of these standard RGBs helps meteorologists easily understand each other. The standard RGBs have schemes, or recipes, describing how to create them.