5-minute CONUS sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Fire Temperature RGB and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with overlays of the Fire Power and Fire Mask derived product (2 components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) (above) displayed signatures of the Corral Fire, which started around 2126 UTC on 01 June 2024 in... Read More
10-minute Full Disk sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) images (above) showed signatures of multiple wildfires across northeastern British Columbia on 10 May 2024 — including the Parker Lake Fire... Read More
Two weeks after the Smokehouse Creek Fire and Windy Deuce Fire started in the Texas Panhandle — as discussed in this blog post — a comparison of Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images along with the GOES-16 (GOES-East) Land Surface Temperature (LST) derived product (above) showed the extent of the burn scars from those... Read More
All 4 components of the GOES-16 (GOES-East) Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm (FDCA) (above) showed the diurnal variability of thermal signatures associated with a large and deadly wildfire complex near Viña del Mar and Quilpué in the Valparaíso District — located along the central coast of Chile — from 02-04... Read More
