Fog and Low Clouds are an important hazard with respect to air and surface travel. How can these obstructions to visibility be highlighted from satellite? The toggle above shows the Night Fog Brightness Temperature Difference and the Night Microphysics RGB, popular satellite products to detect regions of fog. Blue regions... Read More
The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) have been around since 1975, although there were earlier non-operational versions operated by NASA, such as ATS, which carried UW/Madison’s Verner Suomi‘s Spin-Scan Cloudcover Camera. The ATS was followed by the SMS, which carried an early version of the VISSR.To prepare for the 50th anniversary of GOES,... Read More
The Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines erupted at 0703 UTC on 9th December 2024. JMA Himawari-9 Air Mass RGB images from 0650-1500 UTC (above) — created using Geo2Grid — showed the volcanic cloud as it drifted westward across the Sulu Sea. This volcanic cloud was primarily composed of SO2 (along with some... Read More
