If you are really into wildfires, I've got a couple of links for you. Here are some links that I use to watch over my brother's house in Banos, Ecuador for wildfires and lava flows. Reference http://www.loujost.com. The following sites cover much of the western hemisphere and processes data for wildfires by color codes regionally:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/burn/wfabba.html http://modis.higp.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/modis/modisnew.cgi http://goes.higp.hawaii.edu/goes/index.shtml ...on this one be sure to click on an image to get further processed/enhanced imagery. Regards, Paul J. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. Try BingT > now.<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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
