Data Tools: NOAA Launches Wildfire Data Portal, Expanding Public Access to Satellite Fire Information

Data Tools: NOAA Launches Wildfire Data Portal, Expanding Public Access to Satellite Fire Information

From a NOAA Release: In response to the growing threat of wildland fires to local communities, NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has developed a new Wildland Fire Data Portal, which provides open access to the experimental products from the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS). The NGFS uses a sophisticated algorithm that automatically identifies heat anomalies in GOES East and GOES West satellite data…