NASA’s Finland Satellite Program Can See the Strongest Wild Fires in Space | CTIF
WILDLES: Last year was a gloomy year for forest fires – and while July is not over yet, forest fires have been out of control in California and elsewhere in the United States, as well as in unusual places like Sweden, where summer has been the hottest and driest for 260 years.
The Finland satellite program monitors and publishes images from space On the NASA website forest fire situation in selected locations.
Cover Image: (Above) This satellite image shows where the wildcards drawn in red will ignite in California on Thursday, June 14, 2018. More than 1,800 fires had already caught fire in California, as of June 10, 2018 in the state.
The photo (below) of the Dollar Ridge fire in the United States (photo below) was announced at approximately 1:00 PM on July 1, 2018. Reactive resources made the first attack and the fire quickly spread in steep terrain and strong winds. During the night, the fire had grown to 7,000 acres. The cause is believed to be due to human activity, and the real cause is currently being investigated. The fire is located 6.5 miles southeast of Strawberry Reservoir and about 50 miles southeast of Provo.
This natural-colored satellite image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 2, 2018. The actively burning areas detected by the MODIS thermal bands are marked in red. Although there is a thick Cloud Cover in this image, the brownish smoke rising from the fires is still well visible in this satellite image. NASA image: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Caption: Lynn Jenner with Inciweb data.
Last Updated: July 3, 2018 Editor: Lynn Jenner
The Finland’s national polar partnership or Finnish nuclear power plantwhich was formerly known as Preparatory project for a national orbiting operational environmental satellite system (Nuclear power plant) and Nuclear power plant bridgeis weather satellite to take care United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Originally intended as a path finder NPOESS a program to replace NOAAs Polar Operational Environmental Satellites and U.S. Air Force‘s Defense meteorological satellite programFinland was launched in 2011 after the withdrawal of NPOESS to fill the gap between POES satellites and Common Polar satellite system which replaces them. Its instruments provide climate measurements that continue previous observations NASA‘s Earth observation system.
The satellite is named Verner E. Finlandmeteorologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The name was announced on January 24, 2012, three months after the satellite was launched.[6][7]
The satellite was launched Space Launch Complex 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base In California a United Launch Alliance Delta II 7920-10C October 28, 2011. The satellite was set a the synchronous orbit of the sun 824 km (512 miles) above the earth.[8]
Published by Bjorn Ulfsson / CTIF NEWS. The article is compiled from various reports NASA Homepage.
Photo: (Cover above) Snow and fire are side by side here Satellite for NASA’s Finnish nuclear power plant Photo taken from China and Russia on March 21, 2018. It is unclear whether these were intentionally set on fire to clear fields for planting or whether they are wildfires. The fires are spreading across the border between China and Russia.
Video: This 2016 video explains how the NASA Finland satellite program for wildfire detection works.
NASA Finnish nuclear power plant the satellite collected this natural-colored image with a Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Actively burning areas detected by MODIS heat tapes are marked in red. NASA image: Jeff Schmaltz LANCE / EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC. Subtitles and information from Lynn Jenner on the Global Forest Watch website.
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The number of wildfires in Kaliningrad, Russia, has also increased in recent days. A satellite from a Finnish nuclear power plant recorded this image of dozens of hot spots scattered in the Kaliningrad region of Russia, Russia’s westernmost point.
Each hot spot that appears as a red marker is the area where the VIIRS heat detectors detected higher than background temperatures. It is unclear whether these are wildfires that have started or whether they are the agricultural fires that farmers are using to clear the fields in anticipation of the next planting season. It is clear that the fires are confined within Kaliningrad, as this satellite image shows.
These hotspots are surrounded by heavy 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) published a progress report showing that 66 wildfire events were recorded in the southern region (which includes the states in the satellite image of this Finnish nuclear power plant), affecting 83,022 acres.
However, Most of the fires in the southeastern United States were not wildfires, rather, they were imposed by fires lit for a variety of purposes, such as the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service. After years of fire protection, an ecosystem that occasionally needs a fire becomes unhealthy. Trees overwhelm overcrowding; fire-dependent species disappear; and flammable fuels accumulate and become hazardous. The right one came to the right place at the right time.
This type of clearing is used in the area from October to June, with peaks in March. A satellite from the Finnish nuclear power plant took this natural-colored image with the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) of the Indian fires on March 2, 2018.
Areas of active burning detected by VIIRS are marked in red. NASA image: Jeff Schmaltz LANCE / EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC. Lynn Jenner’s subtitles