Stephen Harrison:
Hello,
Here at WFO SGX, we are trying to create a way to monitor the GOES-16 fire temperature/power products for early fire detection. Does anyone know of a tool or script for AWIPS that will automatically detect when any pixel within our CWA gets a noteworthy fire temperature (say, 600 K or greater?) and then send an alarm (preferably Red Banner, but text workstation alarm would be good too) to the forecaster? We have radar alarms that can do this (such as TVS or "new cell" red banner alarms) so I figure it must be possible with GOES-16 too! This would be extremely helpful in detecting wildfires so that we can notify affected fire agencies as soon as possible.
Stephen Harrison
NWS San Diego, CA
Hi Stephen. Your question reminds me of the approach taken at OUN with GOES-14 SRSO-R data: Text msgs were sent based on Hot Spot Detection, and the messaging was done from AWIPS (This is described in a paper: http://nwafiles.nwas.org/jom/articles/2016/2016-JOM14/2016-JOM14.pdf , or here's the link) But I think that required forecaster intervention, so not automatic as you are asking. (And it was using 3.9, not the GOES-16 Baseline Fire Temperature Product you're talking about!)
You should be able to do this, however, using the Data Access Framework (DAF) -- it requires PyThon scripting. Shoot an email to Jeremy Martin, the SOO in Goodland. He can assist if you can't figure it out. (i'll send a separate email to the both of you that has this entire message)
Scott
