Visualising the RGB Channels of Satellite Images with Python

How to deal with multiple spectral bands, large pixel values and skewed RGB channels when visualising satellite images

Conor O'Sullivan
Towards Data Science
6 min readApr 11, 2023

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A visualisation of the RGB channels of 6 satellite images of different coastlines.
(source: SWED)

Satellite images contain an abundance of information. The downside is that it is not straightforward to visualise them. The data differs from normal images as they…

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