Satellite View Of California Fire Smoke

The recent satellite and aerial imagery below show california blanketed in dense smoke as flames ignite mountain chaparral and desert regions.

Satellite view of california fire smoke.

These landscapes exist within a changing fire. New satellite images show the smoke from wildfires that s drifted 600 miles into the pacific ocean and made california s air quality plummet to very unhealthy and hazardous levels. Each satellite has unique detection and data refresh capabilities. Here is a visible satellite image valid at 2pm pdt showing the vast extent of the wildfire smoke.

The area in the orange contour is smoke in the mid upper levels of the atmosphere that has reached. In the morning of august 20 2020 in california the geostationary operational environmental satellite 17 captured a natural color image of the smoke above. 20 2020 top and the same area seen by high. West another satellite image shows conditions just a day earlier.

Goes 17 is operated by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa. A satellite view of the kincade fire on thursday already shows an enormous plume of smoke over the sonoma county california blaze. 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. Using the map below you can view potential fire detection data provided by these six satellites as they monitor the state of california from space.

Noaa s goes17 continues to track the extensive smoke from the wildfires across northern california. A satellite image captured thursday shows smoke from those fires shrouding most of california and much of the u s. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. This geocolor view shows the smoke blowing well away for the.

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