The aerosols have traveled east.
Satellite wildfires satellite map of california fires.
Details include reporting satellite county times of first and last detection hours of duration highest temperature detected the highest fire radiative power frp detected and a geographic coordinate id number for each.
Fire origins mark the fire fighter s best guess of where the fire started.
The omps ozone mapper and profiler suite on the suomi npp satellite provided this sept.
7 2020 image of the aerosols released from the wildfires in california.
Hotspots are areas suspected to be on fire according to satellite imagery analysis.
The space agency s terra satellite has been monitoring.
Copious clouds of smoke spill off the california coast and travel almost 600 miles in nasa s terra satellite image from august 19 2020.
That is more than quadruple the number of acres burned in 2019 per cal fire.
Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.
A stunning 3 1 million acres have burned this year in california noaa nasa s suomi npp satellite captured these series of images made into an animated gif showing the winds changing.
How to use this map.
Air quality pm 2 5 information from official monitors is shown as circles air quality pm 2 5 information from temporary monitors placed by agencies during smoke events is show as triangles air quality pm 2 5 information from low cost sensors is shown as squares large fire incidents as fire icons satellite fire detections as small glowing points and smoke plume.
Hot spot data uses satellite detection to identify areas of high temperature.
Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.
In the year 2020 california has already seen 5 762 incidents affecting 204 481 acres 319 sq.
Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.
California is experiencing some of the worst wildfires it has ever faced and nasa satellite images have revealed the extent of the blaze.