Santa Rosa Fire Satellite Imagery

The glass fire sparked in napa valley early sunday morning around 4 a m.

Santa rosa fire satellite imagery.

Santa rosa residents forced to evacuate can now see if their homes and neighborhoods are ok. Satellite view that we use to track fog and clouds can show fires. Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information. The satellite takes images of the earth below and streams it down to the station in real time.

The viirs data is from nasa while the perimeter data is from the national interagency fire. Pt growing at a rate of around 1 acre every five seconds between sunday night and monday morning according to satellite. The black patch in napa county that is heading towards santa rosa represents smoke being produced by the glass fire. Burn scars can be seen on satellite imagery from nasa as well as where active fires are burning in northern california on aug.

Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface. These data are used to make highly accurate perimeter maps for firefighters and other emergency personnel but are generally updated only once every 12 hours. 20 2020 top and the same area seen by high. The largest satellite company in the world has super powerful sensors that can see through smoke at very high resolution.

The station s antenna points toward the satellite and tracks it for as long as it can until it moves out of range. This map contains live feed sources for us current wildfire locations and perimeters viirs and modis hot spots wildfire conditions red flag warnings and wildfire potential each of these layers provides insight into where a fire is located its intensity and the surrounding areas susceptibility to wildfire. Digitalglobe has been capturing and sharing updated imagery of the fire all week. This combination of satellite images shows the lnu lightning complex wildfire burning to the west of healdsburg in sonoma county california on aug.

Fire perimeter and hot spot data. This map showing the glass fire burning in sonoma and napa counties is updated every 4 to 6 hours. Each station therefore receives the images of the areas around it. There are two major types of current fire information.