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Overview
The GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) produces a Fire Detection and Characterization (FDC) that are maps of fires, including radiative power, temperature, size, and classification.
The GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) program images weather phenomena from a set of satellites in geostationary orbits. The GOES-16, GOES-17 and GOES-18 satellites are the first three of four planned GOES-R satellites.
This dataset is available on Azure thanks to the NOAA Open Data Dissemination Program.
The ABI L2+ FHS consists of four product outputs: metadata mask, fire radiative power (FRP), instantaneous fire temperature, and instantaneous fire size. The metadata mask assigns a flag to every earth-navigated pixel that indicates its disposition with respect to the FHS algorithm. It includes six fire categories:
- Processed fire: The highest fire confidence category, includes FRP, size, and temperature estimates
- Saturated fire: Also very high confidence fires, but the pixel was at instrument saturation so no properties could be determined
- Cloudy fire: A high confidence fire that appears to be partially obscured by cloud
- High possibility fire: A likely fire that did not meet the thresholds for the Processed category
- Medium possibility fire: Medium confidence fire category
- Low possibility fire: The lowest confidence class, a large number of false alarms are to be expected, also contains small and/or cooler fires
Each of the fire categories has a temporally filtered equivalent, which is triggered if fire was found within +/-1 pixel in the last 12 hours. Also included in the mask are flags that indicate why a pixel was excluded from consideration, including due to water, certain surface types, clouds, and bad data.
The FRP, size, and temperature fields represent the properties of a fire that would produce the same detected radiant energy for the pixel. Fires vary throughout their burn area in intensity, but the satellite measurement is a composite signal of the entire pixel. FRP, size, and temperature represent the composite properties of that pixel. A hypothetical fire with those properties would produce the same measured radiances. Due to this mixing of subpixel elements and diffraction in the sensor there are large error bars on these retrievals.
The FHS products are generated for every ABI Full Disk (FD) of the Earth and CONtiguous United States (CONUS) region. They are not generated for the Mesoscale (MESO) regions.
Source: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/GOES-17_ABI_L2_FireHotSpot_Beta_ReadMe.pdf
See these introductory slides for more overview information:
Storage resources
Data are available in Blob Storage in the West Europe Azure data center1, in both NetCDF and cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format.
NetCDF files (one file per scene) are available in the following containers, for GOES-16 and GOES-17 respectively:
https://goeseuwest.blob.core.windows.net/noaa-goes16
https://goeseuwest.blob.core.windows.net/noaa-goes17
https://goeseuwest.blob.core.windows.net/noaa-goes18
COG files (one file per band) are available in the following folders, for GOES-16 and GOES-17 respectively:
https://goeseuwest.blob.core.windows.net/noaa-goes-cogs/goes-16/
https://goeseuwest.blob.core.windows.net/noaa-goes-cogs/goes-17/
https://goeseuwest.blob.core.windows.net/noaa-goes-cogs/goes-18/
Within any of the above, data are named as:
[product]/[year]/[day]/[hour]/[filename]
- product is one of:
ABI-L2-FDCC
,ABI-L2-FDCF
. - year is a four-digit year
- day is a three-digit day-of-year code, starting with 001
- hour is a two-digit hour-of-day code, starting with 00
- filename encodes the product, date, and time
Details are available in the GOES Users' Guide
Large-scale processing using this dataset is best performed in the West Europe Azure data center, where the data is stored.
Authentication
Access requires a Shared Access Signature token, available via our Planetary Computer token API.
Citation
If you use this data in a publication, please cite as:
GOES-R Series Program, (2019): NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 0 Data. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.25921/tvws-w071.
Notices
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