Us Wildfire Smoke Satellite Image

Aqua captured the composite visible left and infrared right.

Us wildfire smoke satellite image.

In order to obtain u s. The wildfires in the us west coast have been raging for a while now destroying a record 4 million acres in california so far. The smoke which is coming from wildfires burning in the western united states has prompted air quality advisories in many areas. 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.

14 to 16 orange tinted smoke from an immense series of wildfires on the. Hms fire and smoke data products are marked with the time stamp representing the corresponding satellite image acquisition observation time in universal time coordinated utc and date using the julian day calendar 0 365 day of year for regular years 0 366 for leap years. Eastern central mountain and pacific. Nasa s aqua satellite captured the impressive eye opening and above all devastating image of the fires that keep raging in the west.

Residents in portions of lake and napa counties were. Smoke from the wildfires in california is seen stretching some 600 miles off the coast of california in a nasa satellite image dated august 19. Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency.

The red marks indicate where the wildfires are currently burning from washington down to. In the images which combine recent observations of the united states taken by several different nasa satellites from sept. Satellite imagery from nasa shows how the smoke is flowing up the pacific coast and impacting b c s valleys. The image below was taken this week by the space agency s terra satellite around 440 miles above earth.

For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. The smoke has slowly spread across southwestern b c the images show.