ODT Methodology
•EYE determination (con’t)
–ODT analyzes temperatures on concentric rings (1 pixel wide) centered on the eye between 24 km and 136 km from the eye location (this range was empirically determined by many observations of coldest ring radii).
–For GOES data with 4km pixel resolution, this results in a total of 28 rings that are analyzed to determine the 'surrounding temperature'.
–In addition, a continuous ring of cold temperatures surrounding the eye is more indicative of an organized (and more intense) storm than one with breaks in the convection.
–Therefore, the warmest temperature found on each ring is identified and stored, with the coldest of these retained as the final surrounding temp value.
–ODT does not reposition the storm center, since it has been found that the subsequent analysis of the surrounding temperature field may be improperly  influenced by this adjustment in some cases ('false' eyes).