Daily Full Disk imageryBy animating daily NOAA GOES-16 or GOES-17 ABI Full Disk visible imagery, the year are 2021 can be shown quickly in review. The GOES-16 loops show an 17 UTC image each day of 2021, while GOES-17 shows an image from 21 UTC. The images are Rayleigh-corrected composites.... Read More
GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) Fire Power and Fire Temperature derived products (above) showed rapid expansion of the Marshall Fire’s thermal signature in Boulder County, Colorado on 30 December 2021. The earliest unambiguous fire signature appeared on the 1841 UTC image (11:41 am MST); the maximum 3.9 µm infrared brightness temperature was 110.96ºC (at 2021... Read More
The Webb Space Telescope was launched from Europe’s Spaceport — located about 40 miles northwest of Kourou, French Guyana (station identifier SOCA) at 1220 UTC on 25 December 2021. A sequence of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above) showed one or both of two features: (1) the hot thermal signature... Read More
An explosion and fire occurred at the ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas around 12:50 AM (0650 UTC) on 23 December 2021 — and a comparison of GOES-17 (GOES-West) vs GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared (1.61 µm and 2.24µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9µm) images (above) displayed the thermal signature of the fire. The maximum 3.9... Read More
