NOAA MODIS Near-real-time Data

Image of Shenandoah, Virginia Forest Fire

Shenandoah, VA Forest Fire
November 1, 2000 UTC 1625

The purpose of the NOAA MODIS project is to design and provide the National Weather Service (NWS) with near-real-time MODIS weather products for the continental USA AM1 Satellite, continental USA PM1 Satellite, Alaska, and Hawaii.

The raw MODIS data is acquired from the Earth Observing System (EOS) AM-1 Satellite Terra, and PM-1 Satellite Aqua.

Conference papers concerning NOAA MODIS processing may be viewed here.

An animated image of hurricane Isabel from Sept. 2003 may be viewed here.