NASA’s Finland satellite program can see the strongest wild fires from space | CTIF
WOOL FIRES: Last year was a dark year for wildfires — and even though July isn’t over yet, wildfires have been raging in California and the rest of the United States, as well as in unusual places like Sweden, which has had its hottest and driest summer in 260 years.
The Suomi satellite program monitors and publishes images from space on the NASA website forest fire situation in selected places.
Cover photo: (Above) This satellite image shows where Wildfires, outlined in red, are burning in California on Thursday, June 14, 2018. As of June 10, 2018, more than 1,800 fires had already started in the wake of California’s most destructive wildfires in the state.
Photo (below) The Dollar Ridge fire in the United States (photo below) was reported at approximately 1:00 PM on July 1, 2018. Responding resources made the initial attack and the fire spread quickly through steep terrain and high winds. During the night, the fire had grown to 7,000 hectares. The cause is believed to be human activity, and the real cause is currently under investigation. The fire is located 6.5 miles southeast of Strawberry Reservoir and about 50 miles southeast of Provo.
This natural-color satellite image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 2, 2018. Actively burning areas detected by MODIS thermal bands are marked in red. Despite the thick cloud cover in this image, the brownish smoke rising from the fires is still clearly visible in this satellite image. NASA image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Photo Caption: Lynn Jenner via Inciweb.
Last updated: July 3, 2018 By: Lynn Jenner
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Photo: (cover above) Snow and fire coexist here Satellite of NASA’s Finnish nuclear power plant photo of China and Russia taken on March 21, 2018. It is unclear if these are deliberately set on fire to clear fields for planting or if they are wildfires. The fires are spreading across the border between China and Russia.
Video: This video from 2016 explains how the NASA Finland satellite program for wildfire detection works.
NASA Finland’s nuclear power plant the satellite collected this natural-color image with the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Actively burning areas detected by MODIS thermal bands are marked in red. NASA photo by Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC. Subtitle by Lynn Jenner and information from the Global Forest Watch website.
THE INFORMATION BELOW IS FROM EARLIER THIS SPRING, AND THE CHARTS WERE LAST UPDATED ON 3/25/2018.
The number of wild fires in Russia’s Kaliningrad has also increased in recent days. The Finnish Nuclear Power Plant’s satellite captured this image of dozens of hot spots scattered across the Kaliningrad region of Russia, Russia’s westernmost point.
Each hot spot, shown as a red marker, is an area where the heat detectors on the VIIRS instrument detected temperatures higher than the background. It is unclear if these are wildfires that have started or if they are agricultural fires used by farmers to clear fields in anticipation of the upcoming planting season. What is clear is that the fires are confined within Kaliningrad, as this satellite image shows.
These hotspots are surrounded by large swaths of snow covering parts of Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.
In mid-March, fire activity was seen in the southeastern United States, mostly in Oklahoma; Georgia and Texas. On March 16, 2018, the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) released a status report showing that 66 wildfire events affecting 83,022 acres were recorded in the southern region (which includes the states in this Finnish nuclear power plant satellite image).
However, Most of the fires in the southeastern United States were not wildfires, rather they were prescribed by fires set for a variety of different purposes, such as by the National Park Service and the US Forest Service. After years of fire protection, an ecosystem that needs occasional fire becomes unhealthy. Trees burden overpopulation; fire-dependent species disappear; and flammable fuels accumulate and become dangerous. The right one came to the right place at the right time.
This type of field clearing is used in the region from October to June, with the peak in March. The satellite of the Finnish nuclear power plant captured this natural color image with the VIIRS device (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) of the fires in India on March 2, 2018.
Actively burning areas detected by VIIRS are marked in red. NASA photo by Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC. Subtitled by Lynn Jenner