Meteor M1 Colorizer
Problem statement
Meteor_M1 lives again (for now at least), but the '345' channels (1.6-1.8um, 3.5-4.1um, 10.5-11.5um) are very strange looking when assigned as raw RBG channels. I needed a way to automatically visualize the data in a more human readable way.
Idea
The thought occured to me that 5 contains raw temperature information, and could use used to colorize the image blue (because blue feels colder) but that the channel 4 contains information about where we might find water ice. Therefore, a teal overlay (because glacial ice seems to be kinda tealish??) could signify that there is water ICE here, not just cold. I don't know how sound the idea is, but it certainly does seem to color the images in a way that makes sense in this way, that is, snow and whispy northern clouds are teal. Also, if the raw image was slightly golden tinted it would give the warmer areas a warmer feel (cold areas would get the gold tinted strongly blue to cancel out the effect).
Results
| Raw channels | Colorized image | |
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Imagemagick Script
BASH Script for *nix systems
#!/bin/bash
echo "File $1"
echo "Separating Channels:"
echo "Mid IR..."
convert $1 -channel b -separate -quality 11 bluechan.png
echo "Thermal IR..."
convert $1 -fuzz 3% -fill white -opaque black -negate -channel r -separate -quality 10 redchan.png
echo "Dirty IR..."
convert $1 -fuzz 3% -fill white -opaque black -negate -channel g -separate -quality 10 greenchan.png
echo "Creating thermal mask..."
convert redchan.png \( +clone -fill blue -colorize 100% \) -compose multiply -composite -quality 10 blueoverlay.png
echo "Creating dirty-IR mask..."
convert greenchan.png \( +clone -fill teal -colorize 100% \) -compose multiply -composite -quality 10 tealoverlay.png
echo "Applying thermal mask.."
convert \( bluechan.png -level 5,100% -fill gold -colorize 9% \) tealoverlay.png \( -level 70%,90% greenchan.png \) -compose screen -composite -quality 11 intermediate.png
echo "Applying dirty-IR mask..."
filename=$(echo "$1"|tr '.' '_')
convert intermediate.png blueoverlay.png \( -level 40%,90% redchan.png \) -compose screen -composite -level 5,92%,1.5 -quality 95 ${filename}_colored.jpg
echo "Done! Saved as ${filename}_colored.jpg"
rm -f redchan.png bluechan.png greenchan.png intermediate.png tealoverlay.png blueoverlay.png
batch script for windows systems
echo off echo File %1 echo Separating Channels: echo Mid IR... convert %1 -channel b -separate -quality 11 bluechan.png echo Thermal IR... convert %1 -fuzz 3%% -fill white -opaque black -negate -channel r -separate -quality 10 redchan.png echo Dirty IR... convert %1 -fuzz 3%% -fill white -opaque black -negate -channel g -separate -quality 10 greenchan.png echo Creating thermal mask... convert redchan.png ( +clone -fill blue -colorize 100%% ) -compose multiply -composite -quality 10 blueoverlay.png echo Creating dirty-IR mask... convert greenchan.png ( +clone -fill teal -colorize 100%% ) -compose multiply -composite -quality 10 tealoverlay.png echo Applying thermal mask.. convert ( bluechan.png -level 5,100%% -fill gold -colorize 9%% ) tealoverlay.png ( -level 70%%,90%% greenchan.png ) -compose screen -composite -quality 11 intermediate.png echo Applying dirty-IR mask... convert intermediate.png blueoverlay.png ( -level 40%%,90%% redchan.png ) -compose screen -composite -level 5,92%%,1.5 -quality 95 %~n1_colored.jpg echo Done! Saved as %~n1_colored.jpg del -f redchan.png bluechan.png greenchan.png intermediate.png tealoverlay.png blueoverlay.png
