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Category: Landsat

New fissure eruption between Stóra-Skógfell and Sýlingarfell on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula

The distinct hot thermal signature (black to yellow to red pixels) of a new fissure eruption between Stóra-Skógfell and Sýlingarfell on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland was apparent in 10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images during the 20th-24th November 2024 period (above). Station identifier BIRK is Reykjavik Airport, and... Read More

Wildfires in British Columbia

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