5-minute GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Fire Temperature RGB images (above) showed signatures of the Game Preserve Fire in northern Walker County, Texas late in the day on 01 September 2023. The wildfire forced... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed dense smoke from Canadian wildfires as it moved across much of the North Central US on 15 July 2023.GOES-16 Visible images with/without an overlay of the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived product is shown below — hourly Ceiling/Visibility observations indicted that the... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) with an overlay of the Fire Temperature derived product and Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Power derived product — both derived products being components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA — (above) showed thermal signatures associated... Read More

Given all the smoke over United States, one might ask: “Just how much acreage has burned over Canada?” NOAA-21 VIIRS False-color imagery from 28 June, toggled above with True-color imagery, reveal very large burn scars over Quebec to the east of James Bay. In the False-color imagery, the burnscars have a... Read More