SATELLITE THERMAL IMAGING — HEAT SIGNATURE PALETTE

VISUAL STYLE: Satellite thermal infrared imaging — the world seen as heat rather than light. False-colour thermal maps where temperature is translated into vivid spectral colour. The aesthetic of remote sensing satellites, infrared cameras, and thermal science made visually spectacular.

COLOUR PALETTE: The classic thermal false-colour spectrum applied rigorously. Deep blue-black and purple for the coldest temperatures — deep ocean, high altitude, cold night air. Shifting through electric blue, vivid cyan, bright green, acid yellow, hot orange, burning red, to white-hot at the highest temperatures. This is the colour of temperature, not of reflected light. The entire palette is always vivid — thermal imaging produces inherently saturated false colour.

SUBJECTS: Everything reveals its thermal signature. A city at night — building rooftops losing heat through poor insulation, glowing warm against the cool sky. Ocean currents — warm tropical water flowing poleward as vivid orange rivers in a blue sea. Weather systems — the temperature structure of a hurricane made visible. Industrial sites — heat plumes rising from cooling towers. Human figures as warm orange-red forms against cooler backgrounds.

TEXTURE: Thermal images have a specific texture — smooth gradients where temperatures change gradually, sharp edges where warm meets cold at a boundary. Heat plumes rise with characteristic shapes. Cold air sinks.

SCALE: Works at every scale — from a hand's thermal signature to a continental weather pattern. The false-colour palette is identical at all scales.

MOVEMENT: Heat flows. Warm air rises. Cold water sinks. Currents carry thermal signatures across thousands of kilometres. The thermal world is always in motion.

No photographs in visible light. No conventional colour. Pure thermal false-colour, pure heat signature, pure infrared science throughout.