These images are considered raw data with no analysis of fires and or smoke.
Real time satellite today california fires.
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The data is provided by calfire.
Several new fire in california today.
The station s antenna points toward the satellite and tracks it for as long as it can until it moves out of range.
New cases are on the decline in only.
Ground receiving stations around the world downlink image data from the satellite when it passes over the station.
There are two major types of current fire information.
Fire origins mark the fire fighter s best guess of where the fire started.
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If you would like to view close to real time satellite imagery of the fires you can use nasa s earth observing system data and information system.
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.
The lake fire started in the angeles national forest near lake hughes.
Probable fires will appear as sharp white spots in the reflectivity images.
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Fire perimeter and hot spot data.
This map contains four different types of data.
To view the official analyses by noaa meteorologists please see the hazard mapping system fire and smoke product.
Zoom earth shows live weather satellite images updated in near real time and the best high resolution aerial views of the earth in a fast zoomable map.
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.
For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.
The fire is moving north and west burning in 100 year old fuels consisting of big cone douglas fir oak and gray.
The satellite takes images of the earth below and streams it down to the station in real time.