Fires in USA
Fires in the USA
9 November 2007
Fires in Southern California
Part of the firestorm that swept through Southern California in late October2007, the Poomacha Fire east of Pauma Valley was still smoldering in a fewinterior locations as of 8 November, according to the National Interagency FireCenter. This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and ReflectionRadiometer (ASTER) on NASAs Terra satellite on 6 November shows the burned landscape of the Poomacha Fire using acombination of visible and infrared light. The burned area in the center of theimage is bright pink. Naturally bare (or thinly vegetated) land surfaces arelighter pink. Vegetation is bright green. The fire took its name from a streetin a community on the reservation, La Jolla Amago, where at least 8 homes weredestroyed.
TERRA
6 November 2007
The large image provided above have a spatial resolution (level of detail) of250 meters per pixel.
(source: EarthObservatory)
Latest MODIS image
This MODIS satellite image, acquired on 7 November 2007, shows verynumerous agricultural burns especially in the Southeast. Some of these fires areproducing generally narrow plumes of light or moderate smoke that extendsouthward. A bright and persistent fire near the Louisiana coast is producing avery long but narrow plume of moderate smoke that extends southwestward far intothe Gulf of Mexico.
(source: OSEI)
