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Archive: Thu Apr 2010

Fire hot spots on GOES, MODIS, and AVHRR imagery

AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-12 3.9 µm, the 1-km resolution MODIS 3.7 µm, and the 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 3.8 µm shortwave IR images (above; click image to enlarge) showed that there were a large number of fire “hot spots” (red to yellow colors) across parts of Kansas... Read More