Ed- I love this kind of stuff! When I was at Grand Canyon NP, we dealt with various kinds of satellite and airborne digital photogrammetry. We had an ongoing fire that occurred about the same time as the Los Alamos Fire, and when the Dept. of Energy flew to Los Alamos with a camera that captured imagery in bands that pierced smoke, and bands that captured light as we see it, they flew over us on the way, calibrated their camera on our fire (the Outlet Fire, 2000). It took us several days to work out the spectral signatures, etc., but we ended up with imagery similar to the URL images you posted below... By the way, I drove right by one of the three columns and could see the others, on my way to, and returning from, Fairbanks earlier this week! Eyes are still a little bit gritty... -Don
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Fires in Alaska Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:53:18 -0400 Don, Speaking of the forest fires in Alaska: Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Burning in Interior Alaska http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39639&src=eoa-iotd Ed "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." - Albert Einstein _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
