satpy.composites.spectral module

Composite classes for spectral adjustments.

class satpy.composites.spectral.HybridGreen(*args, fraction=0.15, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: SpectralBlender

Corrector of the FCI or AHI green band.

The green band in FCI and AHI (and other bands centered at 0.51 microns) deliberately misses the chlorophyll spectral reflectance local maximum at 0.55 microns in order to focus on aerosol and ash rather than on vegetation. This affects true colour RGBs, because vegetation looks brown rather than green and barren surface types typically gets a reddish hue.

To correct for this the hybrid green approach proposed by Miller et al. (2016, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00154.2) is used. The basic idea is to include some contribution also from the 0.86 micron channel, which is known for its sensitivity to vegetation. The formula used for this is:

hybrid_green = (1 - F) * R(0.51) + F * R(0.86)

where F is a constant value, that is set to 0.15 by default in Satpy.

For example, the HybridGreen compositor can be used as follows to construct a hybrid green channel for AHI, with 15% contibution from the near-infrared 0.85 µm band (B04) and the remaining 85% from the native green 0.51 µm band (B02):

hybrid_green:
  compositor: !!python/name:satpy.composites.spectral.HybridGreen
  fraction: 0.15
  prerequisites:
    - name: B02
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected, rayleigh_corrected]
    - name: B04
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected, rayleigh_corrected]
  standard_name: toa_bidirectional_reflectance

Other examples can be found in the ahi.yaml and ami.yaml composite files in the satpy distribution.

Set default keyword argument values.

class satpy.composites.spectral.NDVIHybridGreen(*args, ndvi_min=0.0, ndvi_max=1.0, limits=(0.15, 0.05), strength=1.0, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: SpectralBlender

Construct a NDVI-weighted hybrid green channel.

This green band correction follows the same approach as the HybridGreen compositor, but with a dynamic blend factor f that depends on the pixel-level Normalized Differece Vegetation Index (NDVI). The higher the NDVI, the smaller the contribution from the nir channel will be, following a liner (default) or non-linear relationship between the two ranges [ndvi_min, ndvi_max] and limits.

As an example, a new green channel using e.g. FCI data and the NDVIHybridGreen compositor can be defined like:

ndvi_hybrid_green:
  compositor: !!python/name:satpy.composites.spectral.NDVIHybridGreen
  ndvi_min: 0.0
  ndvi_max: 1.0
  limits: [0.15, 0.05]
  strength: 1.0
  prerequisites:
    - name: vis_05
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected, rayleigh_corrected]
    - name: vis_06
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected, rayleigh_corrected]
    - name: vis_08
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected ]
  standard_name: toa_bidirectional_reflectance

In this example, pixels with NDVI=0.0 will be a weighted average with 15% contribution from the near-infrared vis_08 channel and the remaining 85% from the native green vis_05 channel, whereas pixels with NDVI=1.0 will be a weighted average with 5% contribution from the near-infrared vis_08 channel and the remaining 95% from the native green vis_05 channel. For other values of NDVI a linear interpolation between these values will be performed.

A strength larger or smaller than 1.0 will introduce a non-linear relationship between the two ranges [ndvi_min, ndvi_max] and limits. Hence, a higher strength (> 1.0) will result in a slower transition to higher/lower fractions at the NDVI extremes. Similarly, a lower strength (< 1.0) will result in a faster transition to higher/lower fractions at the NDVI extremes.

Initialize class and set the NDVI limits, blending fraction limits and strength.

_apply_strength(ndvi)[source]

Introduce non-linearity by applying strength factor.

The method introduces non-linearity to the ndvi for a non-linear scaling from ndvi to blend fraction in _compute_blend_fraction. This can be used for a slower or faster transision to higher/lower fractions at the ndvi extremes. If strength equals 1.0, this operation has no effect on the ndvi.

_compute_blend_fraction(ndvi)[source]

Compute pixel-level fraction of NIR signal to blend with native green signal.

This method linearly scales the input ndvi values to pixel-level blend fractions within the range [limits[0], limits[1]] following this implementation <https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/281164>.

class satpy.composites.spectral.SpectralBlender(*args, fractions=(), **kwargs)[source]

Bases: GenericCompositor

Construct new channel by blending contributions from a set of channels.

This class can be used to compute weighted average of different channels. Primarily it’s used to correct the green band of AHI and FCI in order to allow for proper true color imagery.

Below is an example used to generate a corrected green channel for AHI using a weighted average from three channels, with 63% contribution from the native green channel (B02), 29% from the red channel (B03) and 8% from the near-infrared channel (B04):

corrected_green:
  compositor: !!python/name:satpy.composites.spectral.SpectralBlender
  fractions: [0.63, 0.29, 0.08]
  prerequisites:
    - name: B02
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected, rayleigh_corrected]
    - name: B03
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected, rayleigh_corrected]
    - name: B04
      modifiers: [sunz_corrected, rayleigh_corrected]
  standard_name: toa_bidirectional_reflectance

Other examples can be found in the``ahi.yaml`` composite file in the satpy distribution.

Set default keyword argument values.