![\"NOAA-20](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180629_0852utc_noaa20_DayNightBand_ShortwaveInfrared_NearInfrared_Spring_Fire_CO_anim.gif\")
<\/a>NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.75 \u00b5m and 4.05 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Near-Infrared (1.61 \u00b5m and 2.25 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A nighttime comparison of NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.75 \u00b5m and 4.05 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared (1.61 \u00b5m and 2.25 \u00b5m) images at 0852 UTC or 2:52 am MST on 29 June (above; <\/strong>courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS)<\/strong><\/em> showed the visible and thermal signatures of the Spring Fire. With ample illumination from the Moon (in the Waning Gibbous phase, at 98% of full),<\/em> the hazy signature of smoke could be seen drifting northeastward past the Colorado\/Kansas border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the Spring Fire which began burning just west of La Veta Pass (station identifier KVTP) in south-central Colorado on 27 June 2018. The fire produced a small pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud around 0100 UTC, which drifted slowly to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28703","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=28703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28707,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28703\/revisions\/28707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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