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The GOES-Observed Fire Event Representation (GOFER) algorithm uses geostationary satellite observations of active fires from GOES-East and GOES-West to map the hourly progression of large wildfires (over 50,000 acres or 202 sq. km). GOES observes North and South America with a spatial resolution of 2 km at the equator and at a frequency of 10-15 minutes for the full disk view. Along with the fire perimeter, we derive the active fire lines and fire spread rates. We tested the GOFER algorithm on a set of 28 wildfires in California from 2019-2021 and produced three versions of the product: GOFER-Combined, GOFER-East, and GOFER-West. GOFER-Combined uses both GOES-East and GOES-West observations, while GOFER-East and GOFER-West use only GOES-East and only GOES-West observations, respectively. We find that GOFER performs reasonably well compared to final perimeters from California's Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) and 12-hourly perimeters from the Fire Event Data Suite (FEDS), derived from 375-m active fire observations. See our GOFER Visualization app on Earth Engine Apps for an overview of the dataset, alongside other datasets, such as FEDS and FRAP perimeters and 30-m burn severity from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS). Please refer to the corresponding GitHub repository for the code, detailed dataset description, and version history.
fire perimeter, remote sensing, wildfires, geostationary, GOES, fire spread, fire line, satellite data, California
fire perimeter, remote sensing, wildfires, geostationary, GOES, fire spread, fire line, satellite data, California
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