Goes West Satellite Fire Map

Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.

Goes west satellite fire map. As the southwestern united states endures a record heat wave the. Goes west imagery 30 minutes. Goes 16 goes 17 modis and viiirs. The data they provide is for california only.

Goes 16 and goes 17 the goes 16 and 17 satellites are in a geostationary orbit meaning they rotate with the earth and always view the same area of earth s surface. East coast canada northern atlantic ocean caribbean gulf of mexico puerto rico tropical atlantic ocean eastern pacific ocean mexico central america south america north south. Fire detection gis data. There are six fire detection satellite platforms used for our map.

The loop heat pipe lhp subsystem which transfers heat from the abi electronics to the radiator is not operating at its designed capacity. Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires. During post launch testing of the goes 17 abi instrument an issue with the instrument s cooling system was discovered. Air quality pm 2 5 information from official monitors is shown as circles air quality pm 2 5 information from temporary monitors placed by agencies during smoke events is show as triangles air quality pm 2 5 information from low cost sensors is shown as squares large fire incidents as fire icons satellite fire detections as small glowing points and smoke plume.

Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite goes provides 5min observations over the conterminous u s. Fire detections modis 1km viirs 375m and 750m avhrr 1km and goes 4km fire detections by time date of occurrence within the last 6 12 and 24 hours and the 6 days previous to the last 24 hour period. Goes 17 infrared image quality. Fire data in google earth.

How to use this map. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface. Conus imaging sector and 10min observations over the entire western hemisphere full disk imaging sector with two satellites positioned at 75 2 o w goes 16 launched on november 2016 and 137 2 o w goes 17 launched on march 2018. Imagery available about 25 minutes later.

Goes east conus full disk northern rockies upper mississippi valley great lakes northeast southern rockies southern plains southern mississippi valley southeast u s. Goes active fire detection data.