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<\/a>GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Every Spring season, many states conduct prescribed burns as a part of land management within forests, parks, wetlands etc — and GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large number of smoke plumes associated with prescribed burning across parts of the central US on 02 April 2021<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Of particular interest was a very long smoke plume that was seen streaming northward across southern Lake Michigan — a closer view using GOES-16 True Color RGB images centered over that area (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that 2 separate plumes merged into one larger\/longer smoke plume that continued to drift north-northeastward toward the west coast of Lower Michigan. The source of these smoke plumes was the combination of a small prescribed burn and a larger wildfire within the Indiana Dunes National Park near the coast of Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong> provided a more detailed view of the smoke plume over far southern Lake Michigan, as well as thermal anomalies (clusters of hot pixels)<\/em> associated with the industrial sites producing the smoke.<\/p>\n Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The pair of 1-minute GOES-16 Mesoscale Domain Sectors<\/strong><\/a> was positioned to cover the northern and southern portions of the central US\u00a0 — and a small overlap of the sectors provided 30-second imagery over the Nebraska\/Kansas border area. 30-second GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (below)<\/strong><\/em> offered a qualitative view of the locations and relative intensities of a few prescribed burns in the southwestern portion of Nebraska.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>