{"id":45659,"date":"2022-04-07T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=45659"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:55:17","slug":"instrument-flight-rules-ifr-probability-from-goes-17%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45659","title":{"rendered":"Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Probability from GOES-17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are rules and guidelines put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration that govern conditions in which &#8220;flight by outside visual reference is not safe&#8221;, whether by low clouds or fog. Cloud and reflectance data from geostationary satellites GOES-16 and GOES-17 provide a satellite IFR Probability product, by detecting fog and low stratus. More information on this product can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/fusedfog.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An example of GOES-17 IFR Probability is shown below in Southern California on April 7, 2022 at 1546UTC, displaying GOES-17 IFR Probability, IFR advisories issued by the Aviation Weather Center, and GOES-17 red band reflectance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1468\" height=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/Socal_IFR.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45660\" \/><figcaption>GOES-17 IFR Probability, IFR advisory, and GOES-17 Band 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\">(0.64\u00b5m)<\/a> reflectance on April 7, 2022 at 1546UTC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The full domain of GOES-17 IFR Probability may be useful for ocean prediction. <a href=\"https:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/?products=G16-ABI-CONUS-FLS-IFR.100,G17-ABI-CONUS-FLS-IFR.100&amp;center=38,-97&amp;zoom=3&amp;width=1181&amp;height=789&amp;basemap=bluemarble&amp;labels=line&amp;view=leaflet&amp;timeproduct=G16-ABI-CONUS-FLS-IFR&amp;timespan=-6t&amp;animationspeed=50\">GOES-16\/17 IFR products are available on RealEarth.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1468\" height=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/WestCONUS_IFR.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45661\" \/><figcaption>The GOES-17 IFR Probability and Band 2 reflectance for the full GOES-West &#8220;CONUS&#8221; domain, April 7, 2022 at 1546UTC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are rules and guidelines put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration that govern conditions in which &#8220;flight by outside visual reference is not safe&#8221;, whether by low clouds or fog. Cloud and reflectance data from geostationary satellites GOES-16 and GOES-17 provide a satellite IFR Probability product, by detecting fog and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":45664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,80,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-fog-detection","category-goes-17","category-real-earth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45666,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659\/revisions\/45666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}