Satellite Fire Products: More Valuable Now Than Ever with Longer Fire Seasons

Current operational weather satellites from the United States provide high temporal (GOES), spatial, spectral, and radiometric resolution data and derived products for fire detection and monitoring. These include GOES-16/17 for geostationary missions and Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 for low earth orbiting satellites. The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the latest geostationary satellites provide 16 channels, including a dedicated fire detection channel along with near-infrared channels which can aid with fire detection at night [1]. A similar sensor is currently being used on Himawari-8/9 satellites as well as on other geostationary satellites, offering similar capabilities as the GOES-East (16) and GOES-West (17) satellites.