{"id":15420,"date":"2014-04-22T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15420"},"modified":"2014-04-24T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:12:00","slug":"viirs-nighttime-signature-of-mv-sewol-recovery-operations-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15420","title":{"rendered":"VIIRS nighttime signature of MV Sewol recovery operations site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/140401-22_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_Sewol_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/140401-22_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_Sewol_anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a title=\"McIDAS-V\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/software\/v\/\"><strong>McIDAS-V<\/strong><\/a> image comparison of &#8220;before&#8221; (01 April) and &#8220;after&#8221; (22 April) <a title=\"Suomi NPP satellite\" href=\"http:\/\/npp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/suomi.html\"><strong>Suomi NPP<\/strong><\/a> <a title=\"VIIRS instrument\" href=\"http:\/\/npp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/viirs.html\"><strong>VIIRS<\/strong><\/a> 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band data <em><strong>(above; courtesy of William Straka, SSEC\/CIMSS)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the bright lights of the ongoing recovery operations associated with the sinking of the MV Sewol ferry on 16 April 2014 (<a title=\"Wikipedia article on the sinking of the MV Sewol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinking_of_the_MV_Sewol\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>). The bright illumination of the recovery site is located near the center of the 22 April image; the larger cluster of bright lights seen near the bottom of the 01 April image is likely a signature of extensive squid fishing operations. Numerous smaller and more dim lights from fishing boats can be seen on both images.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry was taking a southbound route across the Yellow Sea, with a final destination of Jeju City <em>(whose bright lights can be seen on the north edge of Jeju Island, at the bottom of the images)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/140422_1744z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_Sewol_anot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/04\/140422_1744z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_Sewol_anot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A McIDAS-V image comparison of &#8220;before&#8221; (01 April) and &#8220;after&#8221; (22 April) Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band data (above; courtesy of William Straka, SSEC\/CIMSS) revealed the bright lights of the ongoing recovery operations associated with the sinking of the MV Sewol ferry on 16 April 2014 (Wikipedia). The bright illumination of the recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mcidas-v","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420","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=15420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15427,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions\/15427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}