Goes West Satellite Fire Map

There are six fire detection satellite platforms used for our map.

Goes west satellite fire map. Goes active fire detection data. Goes 17 infrared image quality. Fire detection gis data. 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.

19 2020 noaa s goes west satellite captured the above geocolor image loop of massive wildfire smoke plumes billowing from california and areas of the rocky mountains. How to use this map. As the southwestern united states endures a record heat wave the. 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.

Goes west imagery 30 minutes. Fire data in google earth. During post launch testing of the goes 17 abi instrument an issue with the instrument s cooling system was discovered. To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california.

Extreme eastern pacific imagery is also available on the west atlantic imagery. Goes 16 goes 17 modis and viiirs. 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. Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.

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. The loop heat pipe lhp subsystem which transfers heat from the abi electronics to the radiator is not operating at its designed capacity. The data they provide is for california only. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.

Goes east conus full disk northern rockies upper mississippi valley great lakes northeast southern rockies southern plains southern mississippi valley southeast u s. Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite goes provides 5min observations over the conterminous u s.