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CAPTION: This figure illustrates the normalized cloud offset for GOES, or any other geostationary satellite, due to parallax induced cloud displacements. For a cloud of any given height, the offset is just the height of the cloud, expressed in any desired units, multiplied by the normalized offset value from the graph. The direction of the apparent offset, of course, is directly away from the the satellite, along a great circle arc from the subsatellite point.
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CAPTION: This figure illustrates the normalized cloud offset for DMSP and NOAA/POES meteorological satellites, due to parallax induced cloud displacements. For a cloud of any given height, the offset is just the height of the cloud, expressed in any desired units, multiplied by the normalized offset value from the graph. The direction of the apparent offset, of course, is along the imager scan lines in the direction away from the subsatellite point.
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