{"id":51388,"date":"2023-03-30T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=51388"},"modified":"2023-03-31T22:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:03:48","slug":"train-derailment-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/51388","title":{"rendered":"Train derailment in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/03\/230330_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_nightFogBTD_nighttimeMicrophysicsRGB_MN_train_derailment_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/03\/mn_swir-20230330_063116.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m), Night Fog BTD (10.3 \u00b5m &#8211; 3.9 \u00b5m) and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images; railroads are plotted in dashed blue lines [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/03\/230330_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_nightFogBTD_nighttimeMicrophysicsRGB_MN_train_derailment_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band07.pdf\"><strong>3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Night Fog BTD (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_NightFogBTD.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m &#8211; 3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/QuickGuide_GOESR_NtMicroRGB_Final_20191206.pdf\"><strong>Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed the thermal signature &#8212; via a single warm pixel &#8212; of a fire that resulted from a BNSF train derailment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/30\/us\/raymond-minnesota-train-derailment\/index.html\"><strong>media report<\/strong><\/a>) in Raymond, Minnesota at 0602 UTC (1:02 AM CDT) on 30 March 2023.\u00a0 Although the fire itself was relatively small (only 3 train cars were burning) and patchy clouds were drifting overhead, the subpixel sensitivity of thermal anomalies is very good with the 3.9 \u00b5m spectral band (and any products which include 3.9 \u00b5m data).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m), Night Fog BTD (10.3 \u00b5m &#8211; 3.9 \u00b5m) and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images (above) displayed the thermal signature &#8212; via a single warm pixel &#8212; of a fire that resulted from a BNSF train derailment (media report) in Raymond, Minnesota at 0602 UTC (1:02 AM CDT) on 30 March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388","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=51388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51447,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388\/revisions\/51447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}