GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images along with GOES-17 Fire Power and Fire Temperature products (above) displayed characteristics associated with the Cedar Creek Fire in Oregon on 02 September 2022. The peak 3.9 µm infrared brightness temperature reached 137.88ºC, with Fire Power values exceeding 2000 MW and Fire Temperature values exceeding... Read More
Seismic activity has been ongoing in August 2022 beneath the island of Ta’u to the east of American Samoa. (USGS has published a variety of information on this swarm of Earthquakes: link 1; link 2; link 3); See also these two recorded Facebook Live presentations from the NWS WSO office in Pago Pago:... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images viewed using CSPP GeoSphere (above) showed the motion of sea ice filaments that had moved southward through the Bering Strait and into the northwestern Bering Sea (just off the coast of Chokotka Okrug, Russia) on 14 August 2022. A sequence of 375-meter resolution VIIRS False Color RGB... Read More
The CSPP Geosphere website has recently been upgraded. CSPP Geosphere uses data from the GOES Re-Broadcast (GRB) data stream Those data are processed on an on-site Kubernetes cluster that produces full-resolution GOES-East/GOES-West images that are quickly and fluidly zoomable and pannable. In addition, recent software and hardware upgrades mean that processing... Read More
