The Tunnel Fire north of Flagstaff offers an excellent example of why knowledge of Parallax with satellite features is important. In the animations above, note how the location of the warmest pixels are shifted: GOES-17 has the warmest pixels very close to US Highway 89 leading northeast away from Flagstaff; GOES-16 has... Read More
A toggle between Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 µm) images at 0954 UTC or 3:54 am local time (above) displayed the nighttime glow and thermal signatures of actively-burning portions of the Tunnel Fire on 20 April 2022. As noted in the Inciweb report, a 10-mile section of the... Read More
JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed signatures of a rapidly-spreading grassland fire in eastern Mongolia’s Numrug National Park (near the border with China) on 19 April 2022. The fast rate of northeastward growth of the dark burn scar in... Read More
5-minute GOES-16 {GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (below) showed widespread blowing dust (shades of tan) and wildfire smoke plumes (brighter shades of white) across much of the central/southern Plains on 12 April 2022. Wind speeds were anomalously strong behind a dryline within the warm sector of an anomalously-deep surface low, which... Read More
