NOAA's Operationa Significant Event Imagery

Welcome to the Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI) Homepage...

...our most recent Daily Operational Significant Events Support Report is below.

Images listed below can be found together in the "../Events/Current" directory on the server:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

You can access this directory through the "Current" button in the navigation bar of the web site.

Satellite information that appears in filenames below:

G12 - GOES-12
G10 - GOES-10
G9 - GOES-9
MT - METEOSAT
N5 - NOAA-15 (AVHRR)
N6 - NOAA-16 (AVHRR)
N7 - NOAA-17 (AVHRR)
MO - MODIS

The following categories of significant events were searched for in imagery available in the Satellite Services Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

1. Fires - ** see below (California)
2. Floods - no imagery posted
3. Tropical Systems - no imagery posted
4. Volcanoes no imagery posted
5. Ocean - no imagery posted
6. Ice - no imagery posted
7. Dust Storms - no imagery posted
8. Storms - no imagery posted
9. Severe - no imagery posted
10. Snow Cover - no imagery posted
11. Unique - no imagery posted

Significant events reviewed by the Operational Significant Event Imagery support team Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004 are as follows:

For information on solar flares and geomagnetic storms be sure to visit NOAA's Space Environment Center at:

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/

FIRES IN CALIFORNIA

IMAGE D28801: NOAA-16 <> RGB=ch. 3, 2, 1 <> 10/13/2004 21:41 UTC <>Multichannel Color composite <> U.S. California
Heat signatures (red) are seen from fires burning in Virginia.

Image provided in preview (~62K) and standard (293K) formats.

Preview (500X472):

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_California/2004/FSMHSusCA288_N6L.jpg http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_California/2004/FSMHSusCA288_N6L.jpg
Standard (1280x1150)

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_California/2004/FSMHSusCA288_N6.jpg http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_California/2004/FSMHSusCA288_N6.jpg

The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Support Team
Interactive Processing Branch, (E/SP22)
tel: (301) 763-8142
fax: (301) 899-9196

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the appropriate OSEI scientist:
George Stephens OSEI Team Leader
George.Stephens@noaa.gov 301 763-8142 Mark Ruminski Mark.Ruminski@noaa.gov 301-763-8444
Jamie Kibler Jamie.Kibler@noaa.gov 301-763-8444
Regis Walter Regis.Walter@noaa.gov 301-763-8444
Nancy Merckle Nancy.Merckle@noaa.gov 301-763-8444
Greg Gallina Greg.Gallina@noaa.gov 301-763-8444
Kyle Turner Kyle.Turner@noaa.gov 301-763-8444
Jay Hanna Jay.Hanna@noaa.gov 301-763-8444

Provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)