The satellite takes images of the earth below and streams it down to the station in real time.
Santa rosa fire satellite imagery.
Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.
Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.
This combination of satellite images shows the lnu lightning complex wildfire burning to the west of healdsburg in sonoma county california on aug.
The lnu lightning complex near santa rosa and the scu.
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.
20 2020 top and the same area seen by high.
The viirs data is from nasa while the perimeter data is from the national interagency fire.
Santa rosa residents forced to evacuate can now see if their homes and neighborhoods are ok.
Pt growing at a rate of around 1 acre every five seconds between sunday night and monday morning according to satellite.
Users can subscribe to email alerts bases on their area.
This map showing the glass fire burning in sonoma and napa counties is updated every 4 to 6 hours.
Burn scars can be seen on satellite imagery from nasa as well as where active fires are burning in northern california on aug.
Each station therefore receives the images of the areas around it.
Satellite view that we use to track fog and clouds can show fires.
There are two major types of current fire information.
The glass fire sparked in napa valley early sunday morning around 4 a m.
Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.
The station s antenna points toward the satellite and tracks it for as long as it can until it moves out of range.
The largest satellite company in the world has super powerful sensors that can see through smoke at very high resolution.
The black patch in napa county that is heading towards santa rosa represents smoke being produced by the glass fire.