The suomi npp satellite s visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs instrument captured a look at the smoke obscuring much of the pacific northwest on september 05 2017.
Seattle smoke satellite image.
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Due to the huge number of wildfires that have broken out over this very dry very hot summer smoke is billowing from the fires that have yet to be extinguished.
The image on the right shows the same area but this time the red and green in the picture are actually shortwave infrared and blue remains blue.
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Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.
These two images show a forest fire next to a lake.
Goes 17 infrared image quality.
The consequence of this is that the abi detectors.
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See how the orange fires become visible through the smoke.
The image on the left is how a human would see it.
Goes west imagery 30 minutes.
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The loop heat pipe lhp subsystem which transfers heat from the abi electronics to the radiator is not operating at its designed capacity.
The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values.
For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.