This map contains four different types of data.
Satellite image of california fires right now.
The golden state a region with long dry and sunny mediterranean.
Satellite images show massive amounts of smoke engulfing the west coast of the u s.
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And extending hundreds of miles over the pacific ocean.
A natural color image of the czu lightening complex fires near santa cruz california taken on aug.
22 2020 shows yellow and red areas indicating heavy levels of aerosols from california wildfire smoke extending all the way to.
Dramatic satellite images show the.
The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values.
Fire perimeter and hot spot data.
An image from nasa s suomi npp satellite on monday aug.
See how the orange fires become visible through the smoke.
Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.
The second and third largest fires in california history are now burning at the same time along with over 500 other fires.
The image on the right shows the same area but this time the red and green in the picture are actually shortwave infrared and blue remains blue.
There are two major types of current fire information.
24 active large fires are burning in california 14.
These data are used to make highly accurate perimeter maps for firefighters and other emergency personnel but are generally updated only once every 12 hours.
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The data is provided by calfire.
Wildfires across california oregon and washington have killed at least 35 people scorched over 4 million acres and sent thick smoke and ash into the skies.
These two images show a forest fire next to a lake.
For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.
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