Automated Weather Graphics
		CineSat's core application is to produce weather analysis and forecast data based on real-time satellite imagery. But it also offers powerful and very flexible graphic capabilities to display all results and to automatically generate customized weather graphics.
	Graphic Capabilities Overview     Select your background image     Choose your favorite map projection     Add standard image overlays (coastlines, cities, graticule, text, ...)     Add real-time forecast and analysis overlay data     Choose among 16 million image and overlay colors     Put clouds on colored background - a new and precise method     Compose images from different satellites in any supported projection     Combine different image channels or any two images     Filter your images     Perfectly smooth and realistic movies for TV weather presentation     Import from and export to standard graphic formats
		Although providing the full range of graphical presentation of satellite related weather data, CineSat remains to be a facility for automatic image processing, weather analysis, and nowcasting, rather than an interactive display system. The Automatic Product Extraction Facility (APE) comes already pre-configured to produce a standard set of nice weather products from your real-time satellite images - automatically as soon as new data come in. You can easily adapt the APE to your specific needs, or use it to develop your own weather products.
	Select Your Display Background Image
	Top	You can use any 8-bit palette or 24-bit RGB raster image as background to your weather graphics, e.g. any infra-red, visible, or water vapor satellite image, or radar images, or the provided topographic image of the earth with 1/12 degree resolution, or the land / sea mask with 1/12 degree resolution, or simply any other imported 8 / 24 - bit raster graphic Click on the links in the list above to view example images.
	Image Projections
		CineSat supports 63 projections onto planes (azimuthal), cylinders, and cones. For each projection surface you may choose among three basic projection properties: equi-distant equivalent (equal-area) and conformal (equal-angles, preserves local shape) Every projection has a set of parameters that can easily be configured to adapt to your image data and applications.
		The following projections are available:
		10 azimuthal (plane) projections:   ORTHO, GNOMONIC, STEREO, NPOL, SPOL, GEOSAT, EDAP, LAZIMUTH, VPERSPECT, HAMMER (pseudo-azimuthal) 14 cylindrical projections:   EQUIRECT, PCARREE, MERCATOR, MILLER, GALLISO, GALLORTHO, GALLSTEREO, GNOMOCYL, ISOCYL, LAMBCYL, BEHRMANN, TRYSTAN, PETERS, BALTHASART 3 transverse cylindrical projections:   CASSINI, TISOCYL, TMERCATOR 25 pseudo-cylindrical projections:   ECKERT3, ECKERT4, ECKERT5, GOODE, IGOODE, KAVRAISKY7, MERCSAN, MOLLWEIDE, PUTNINS1, PUTNINS2, PUTNINS3, PUTNINS3P, PUTNINS4P, PUTNINS5, PUTNINS5P, PUTNINS6, PUTNINS6P,ROBINSON, WAGNER2, WAGNER3, WAGNER4, WAGNER6, WAGNER7, WERENSKIOLD1, WINKEL1 10 conical projections:   ALBERS, ISLE, LAMBERT, TISSOT, MURDOCH1, MURDOCH2, MURDOCH3, EULER, PCONIC, VITKOVSKY1 Miscellaneous projections:   VANDGRINTEN
	Top	For all projections, you can set zoom and pan parameters to get your desired region of interest. With every projection you can either apply the standard nearest neighbor resampling method, or a meteorologically tailored bi-cubic spline method. CineSat's bi-cubic spline resampling had been developed for and validated at the European Space Operations Centre for the accurate recification of Meteosat images. More on CineSat projections ...
	Add Standard Image Overlays
		CineSat weather graphics may contain any number of overlays, consisting of static geographical data, dynamic graphics like image title text and annotations (labels and markers), and the computed weather forecast and analysis data.
	Top	With CineSat you can use and customize the following standard overlays: coastlines from 25 km to 1 km resolution, more than 350 world cities, user-defined locations (e.g. add your local weather stations), labels, titles, marker positions, lines, boxes, circles, elipses geographical nets (graticule) geographical grid markers Click on above links to view example images.
	Add Forecast and Analysis Overlay Data
		Relief-filtered infra-red cloud image with prediction of convective cell movement.
	Top	All of CineSat's real-time weather analysis and short-range forecast data can, of course, be drawn as image overlay, like e.g. atmospheric motion vector fields (choose between absolute, relative, or cloud system motion) convective cell plots (colors and symbols depending on cell properties) predicted trajectories (see example above) current and predicted cloud contour lines cloud development maps Click on above links to view example images. Overlay colors and symbols can also be chosen to depend on data values, like e.g. cloud temperatures, convective cell properties, etc. More on CineSat forecast products ...
	Choose Your Image and Overlay Colors
	Top	For the computation of weather information, CineSat can handle and fully exploit 1 - 16 bit grayscale images including the high-resolution 10/12 - bit channels of MSG. The result products are usually being output as either 8-bit images with a color palette of 256 out of 16 million colors for images and overlays or as 24-bit true color RGB images. With CineSat you can use any number of overlays for your weather displays. Overlay colors can be specified either per data set (e.g. black coastlines, yellow motion vectors, ...) or per data item, i.e. dependent on data values, like e.g. cloud temperatures, convective cell properties, etc. Beside all color options you can of course also opt for traditional gray value graphics.
	Clouds on Colored Background
		With CineSat, you can pick the clouds from a visible or infra-red image and overlay them onto a colored (8/24-bit) background image (e.g. a land/sea mask). In contrast to the standard cloud thresholding method used at most sites, CineSat features the following improvements: better handling of low and warm clouds over land and sea timely consistent flow of clouds (no clouds are suddenly flickering up or disappear in an image sequence as it is the case with typical thresholding methods) use of a single parameter setting for all satellites and all latitudes Compare the original infra-red image with its colored background graphic.
	Polar-stereographic projection of the European region; IR cloud image together with a land/sea background, geographical net and the major European cities drawn as overlay. Click on the image for a higher resolution display.
	Top	Click here for a GOES-E South America example.
	Compose Images from Geostationary Satellites
		CineSat computes composite images from all geostationary weather satellites independent from the actual image resolution. The above image had been produced from mixed A and X-format images received by a Meteosat PDUS station. You can specify any of the supported CineSat projection types to define the result image.
	Composite of 5 satellite images in Hammer projection; clouds have been drawn onto a colored background using a single parameter setting for all satellites and all latitudes. Click on the image for a higher resolution display.
		The CineSat composite method provides you with a full earth weather view without any visible border between neighboring satellites if they are available for the same point of time (click on image above to see a high resolution display). The example below is a composite in Mercator projection. The artefacts over Alaska and the South pacific result from the fact that the GOES-W image was from UTC 18:30 whereas the other satellites are from 18:00. With the GMS image, the image lines south of Australia were not available. The result demonstrates that CineSat can also handle missing or inconsistent input data.
	Composite of 5 satellite images in Mercator projection. Click on the image for a higher resolution display. Top
	Combine Any Images
		CineSat allows you to combine any two (or more) images of equal size and projection. The basic image operations are: linear combination of two images (Img = A * Img1 + B * Img2 + C) absolut linear combination multiplication of two images minimum and maximum of two images combining three gray-value images to a color RGB image Sample meteorological applications are: comparing timely successive images by subtracting them merging the visible and infra-red image channels with MAX creating cloud-free background images from an image series with the MIN operator averaging two images applying masks with the MIN or MAX operator combining the visible and infra-red image channel into a color image
	Composite of visible and infra-red image channels produced with the MAX operator.
	Color composite of visible and infra-red image channels.
	Top	The content of the visible image appears in yellow (i.e. in red and green) and infra-red clouds are in blue. White clouds are contained in both channels. This color code gives you information about cloud temperature and cloud thickness in a single image.
	Filter and Enhance Your Images
	Top	Image filtering may significantly improve the quality of your weather products and of derived forecasts. Filters are used to remove image noise, to enhance certain aspects of the image content, or simply to make the important bits of information better visible for a human viewer. The following image filters are available with CineSat: smoothing filters (mean, Gauß, median, binomial, ...) contour sharpening filters edge filters (Laplace, Sobel, ...) 3D relief filter neatless removal of burnt-in overlays more than 40 pre-defined filters user-definable filters (filter kernels and filter window sizes) In addition to image filtering, CineSat offers a number of operations to further enhance your images, like linear and non-linear gray value transformations enhancement of brightness and contrast local and global histogram linearization sun-angle correction atmospheric correction
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