Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) -- CIMSS

GOES-East switch from GOES-16 to GOES-19 has been delayed to ‘no earlier than’ Monday, April 7 due to declaration of a critical weather day on Friday, April 4. There may be a short disruption in the NGFS detections or imagery during the transition to the new satellite. More information. Delay information.

Satellite Imagery

RealEarth Imagery

Links to RealEarth terrain-corrected satellite imagery that includes metadata for each thermal anomaly detection, animations, and pan and zoom capabilities.

Grayed out products are unavailable.

GOES-16 ABI

CONUS

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Full Disk

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Mesoscale1

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Mesoscale2

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

GOES-18 ABI

CONUS

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Full Disk

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Mesoscale1

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Mesoscale2

All Products
Scene Detections
- + GeoColor
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

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