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... Read More

JMA Himawari-9 Ash RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a complex volcanic cloud resulting from an eruption of Shiveluch that began just after 1300 UTC on 10 April 2023. Much of the volcanic cloud exhibited brighter shades of yellow (indicating a mixture of ash and SO2), but there were also areas of brighter green (indicating... Read More

Sentinel-1A overflew the central Hawai’ian islands near sunset on 10 April 2023, and the SAR data collected are shown above. Data are also available online at this website. The toggles below compare wind speed from that website (04:39:48 and 04:40:19 from south to north) with Normalized Radar Cross Section fields (04:39:48... Read More

JMA Himawari-9 Ash RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the volcanic plume —  which included a violent eruptive pulse that began at 0540 UTC on 07 April — from Bezymianny on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia during 06-07 April 2023. Signatures of ash (shades of pink to violet) were evident,... Read More