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Wildland fires are the fastest growing fire threat.
To help mitigate this problem, the NESDIS
Satellite Services Division (SSD) provides
real time environmental satellite data and derived products
including the Hazard Mapping System Fire and Smoke Product
(HMS) and the WF-ABBA product.
The HMS
is an interactive
processing system that allows trained satellite analysts
in SSD to manually integrate data from various automated
fire detection algorithms with GOES and polar satellite images. The
result is a quality-controlled display of the location of fires
and significant smoke plumes detected by meteorological satellites.
The WF-ABBA algorithm uses GOES satellite data to detect and monitor
fires and smoke associated with wildfires.
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