Day Night Band Imagery of fires in New Mexico
The Day Night Band on the VIIRS sensor that flies on both Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 will view emitted light (or reflected moonlight) at night. The animation above (derived from imagery at the VIIRS Today website — from this sector, specifically) shows the light emissions from cities in New Mexico (click here to see the annotated first image with place names), and, notably, fires. Multiple fires are apparent in the animation. For example: the Calf Canyon (start on 19 April)/Hermits Peak (start on 6 April) fire start in the center of the animation; to the northeast of that fire, the Cooks Peak fire that started on 17 April is mostly contained as of 10 May; the Cerro Pelado fire (start on 19 April) to the west of Santa Fe is also apparent.
