| Label | Abbreviation | Enhancement Descriptions: |
| Visible | VIS | Unenhanced Visible imagery that transitions to IR2 overnight |
| Shortwave (IR2) | IR2 | Channel 2 Shortwave Infrared imagery - Shortwave, sometimes considered "night visible" |
| Fire (IR2) | IR2F | IR Channel 2 with the standard fire enhancement |
Fire Hot |
IR2H | IR Channel 2 with enhancemnet for the hot summer season |
Fire Winter |
IR2W | IR Channel 2 with enhancement for the cool winter season |
| Water Vapor | WV | IR Channel 3 |
| RGB | RGB | Combination of Visible and IR using a three channel technique to form a Red/Green/Blue false color image. |
| None | IR4 | Unenhanced Channel 4 Infrared Imagery |
| AVN | AVN | Aviation color enhancement |
| Dvorak | BD | Dvorak enhancement - used for Tropical Classifications with the Dvorak Technique |
| Funktop | FT | Funktop enhancement - developed by Ted Funk. Highlights intense areas of precipitation |
| JSL | JSL | JSL2 enhancement - developed by Jim Lynch. Used to bring out low level and hight level clouds in tropical cyclones |
| Rainbow | RB | Rainbow enhancement curve - Colorful enhancement |
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