On Day 2 (01 December 2009) of the GOES-14 NOAA Science Test, the satellite was placed into a continuous “Full Disk” scan mode, providing images of the entire hemisphere at 30 minute intervals — full disk images of the GOES-14 6.5 µm “water vapor channel” are shown above. While the current GOES operational scan... Read More

A comparison of GOES-11 (GOES West), GOES-14, and GOES-12 (GOES East) 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (above) indicated that there were a number of fires burning across parts of southern British Columbia, Canada on 01 December 2009, as confirmed by the NOAA Hazard Mapping System. The 3 sets of images are displayed in the native... Read More