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Indiana recycling plant fire

By Scott Bachmeier •

GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, top left), Fire Temperature RGB (top right), Fire Power (bottom left) and Fire Temperature (bottom right) [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Fire Temperature RGB, and Fire Power / Fire Temperature derived products (above) showed thermal signatures from a recycling plant fire in Richmond, Indiana on 11 April 2023. The Fire Power and Fire Temperature derived products are components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm (FDCA).

GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

GOES-16 True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) provided a good portrayal of the contrast between the dark black smoke plume and the surrounding bare ground — which was also evident in True Color RGB images from GOES-18 (GOES-West), in spite of the rather large viewing angle from that satellite (below).

GOES-18 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

Categories: Fire detection, GOES-16, GOES-18, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images