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Supporting Documentation

Videos

Videos showing how to use the NGFS alerts dashboard and associated satellite imagery are provided below.

• How to use the settings page on the alerts dashboard
• How to use the alerts dashboard
• How to use the satellite imagery page
• Accessing NGFS alerts in the alerts archive

Quick Guides

This section contains 1 or 2-page reference documents describing how to use and interpret different types of satellite imagery shown on the NGFS website.

• Audio Notifications
• GeoColor
• Fire Temperature RGB
• Day Fire RGB
• Microphysics RGB
• Shortwave Infrared (GOES Band 7)
• Ash/Dust RGB
• Visible (GOES Band 2)
• Longwave Infrared (GOES Band 13)

Disclaimer: The Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) website is hosted and populated at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin. While reliability is quite high, outages, including unannounced outages, will occasionally occur. Outages may include, but are not limited to, any of the following: website offline, specific sensor processing to cease, email and/or text message distribution outages, database outages, computer malfunction, etc. While every effort is made to correct problems as soon as they arise, the SSEC is not staffed 24/7. As such, any user implicitly agrees to use the services and data available through this website as is with no warranty issued or implied and should be used for informational purposes only. Any use of this data for decision making processes is done at the sole risk of the end user.

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