Google Maps terrain along with 30-meter resolution Lansdat-8 0.45 µm visible channel and 2.29 µm shortwave IR channel images of the Rim Fire in California at 18:42 UTC on 31 August 2013 are shown above. While there were some... Read More

Satellite and especially radar revealed the tell-tale signs of an undular bore over southern Wisconsin on the morning of 26 August. The parallel lines of enhanced radar return, above, suggest that the outflow from the convective complex over northern Wisconsin organized into a bore, in part because the atmosphere over... Read More

Tungurahua is an active stratovolcano in Ecuador (Wikipedia); a Landsat-8 false-color image showed the partially snow-covered dome of the volcano on 13 July 2013. On the following day, the Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center issued a Read More

The SSEC Data Center has started ingesting Landsat-8 data, and serving the data up as McIDAS AREA files via ADDE. The image above compares Landsat-8 visible imagery (in the blue part of the visible — near 0.50 µm) that has been scaled down by a factor... Read More