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Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) winter images of San Francisco Mountain and vicinity: (left) natural color - band 1 (0.45-0.52) = blue, band 2 (0.52 - 0.60) = green, band 3 (0.63-0.69) = red; (middle) color infrared - band 2 = blue, band 3 = green, band 4 (0.76-0.90) = red; (right) false color - band 1 = blue, band 4 = green, band 5 (1.55-1.75) = red. Note that only the false color image is able to discriminate snow (A) from clouds (B).




AVIRIS (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) color composite images of San Francisco Mountain and vicinity. Center wavelength assignments are as follows: left -- band 12 (0.5078) = blue, band 45 (0.8312) = green, band 63 (1.0076) = red; right -- band 12 = blue, band 45 = green, band 185 (2.2032) = red. (Courtesy JPL and USGS.)