{"id":11093,"date":"2012-08-21T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T23:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11093"},"modified":"2012-08-22T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T23:09:28","slug":"goes-14-srsor-fires-in-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11093","title":{"rendered":"GOES-14 SRSOR: Fires in northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/08\/120821_g14_swir_vis_srsor_CA_fires_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-14 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR (left) and 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible (right) images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/08\/120821_G14_SWIR_VIS_CA_19.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-14 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR (left) and 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible (right) images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-14 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR (left) and 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible (right) images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-14 1-minute interval Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (<strong>SRSOR<\/strong>) 4-km resolution 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel data and 1-km resolution 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <strong><em>(above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed a number of significant wildfires burning across parts of northern California on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20120821.html\" title=\"21 August 2012 daily weather map\">21 August 2012<\/a><\/strong>. The largest and most intense fires exhibited pronounced &#8220;hot spots&#8221; <em>(black to yellow to red color enhancement)<\/em> on the shortwave IR imagery, with optically-thick smoke plumes on the corresponding visible imagery.<\/p>\n<p>The GOES-14 satellite <strong><a title=\"GOES-14 is out of storage\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11051\">has been brought out of on-orbit storage<\/a><\/strong> to be tested in SRSOR mode <strong><a title=\"GOES-14 SRSOR information\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/srsor\/GOES-14_SRSOR.html\">through the end of October 2012<\/a><\/strong>, allowing it to provide images at 1-minute intervals for an extended period of time over special regions of interest (similar to the future GOES-R satellite, which will be capable of producing imagery at 30-second intervals over special sectors of interest).<\/p>\n<p>During the previous night-time hours, a comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m data with the corresponding 4-km resolution GOES-15 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR data <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> demonstrated the value of improved spatial resolution for identifying the location of smaller fires, as well as more accurately assessing the location and shape of the more intense portions of larger actively burning fires.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/08\/120821_modis_goes_swir_CA_fires_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m vs GOES-15 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/08\/120821_modis_goes_swir_CA_fires_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m vs GOES-15 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m vs GOES-15 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-14 1-minute interval Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) 4-km resolution 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel data and 1-km resolution 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed a number of significant wildfires burning across parts of northern California on 21 August 2012. The largest and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-14","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11095,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}