{"id":26557,"date":"2018-01-02T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=26557"},"modified":"2018-01-03T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T21:11:55","slug":"a-prescribed-burn-in-montana-as-viewed-from-goes-15-goes-16-and-goes-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/26557","title":{"rendered":"A prescribed burn in Montana, as viewed from GOES-15, GOES-16 and GOES-13"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-15 (left),<\/em> GOES-16 (center)<\/em> and GOES-13 (right)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, with plots of hourly surface reports [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A prescribed burn — <\/strong>the SureEnough<\/strong><\/a> fire — in central Montana was viewed by GOES-15 (GOES-West),<\/em> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> and GOES-13 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) imagery on 02 January 2018<\/strong><\/a>. The images are shown in the native projection for each of the 3 satellites.<\/p>\n

Due to the improved spatial resolution of the GOES-16 3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> Shortwave Infrared band (2 km at satellite sub-point, vs 4 km for GOES-15 and GOES-13)<\/em> and the more frequent image scans (routinely every 5 minutes over CONUS for GOES-16),<\/em> an unambiguous thermal anomaly or fire “hot spot” was first evident on GOES-16 at 1707 UTC<\/strong><\/a>, just southeast of Lewistown (station identifier KLWT). The GOES-16 fire thermal signature was also hotter (black pixels)<\/em> compared to either GOES-15 or GOES-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A prescribed burn — the SureEnough fire — in central Montana was viewed by GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-16 (GOES-East) and GOES-13 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) imagery on 02 January 2018. The images are shown in the native projection for each of the 3 satellites. Due to the improved spatial resolution of the GOES-16 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,43,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-13","category-goes-15","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557","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=26557"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26584,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557\/revisions\/26584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}