Smoke plumes Type
Photographic Interpretation Guide
Smoke Plume Types
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On 9 May 2000, the Landsat 7 satellite acquired two images of the area around Los Alamos, New Mexico. These images were acquired from 427 miles in space through its sensor called the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). Evident within the imagery is a view of the ongoing Cerro Grande fire near the town of Los Alamos and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
(Source: Earth Observatory, NASA) 5


A prescribed fire spread out of control near Los Alamos, New Mexico. Extreme fire behavior with high winds fanned the flames into Los Alamos Canyon on Wednesday, 10 May 2000. The GOES-10 image shows the effect the 60-mile-per-hour winds had in helping intensify the fire and spread the smoke plume eastward across New Mexico and into northern Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(Source: Earth Observatory, NASA) 7

Smoke plumes from forest fires scattered along the border between the Russian Far East and northern China are clearly visible in this true-color image from the Sea-viewing Wide-Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on June 16, 2000. Fires in Siberia occur every summer, and severe outbreaks occur every ten years or so, with the most recent in 1998. The fires are ignited by lightning, and are so remote that it is impossible to fight them effectively.
Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE 8

Hundreds of fires are set every year during the dry season in Central Africa. This true color image from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) shows dozens of smoke plumes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on June 29, 2000. Residents burn away scrub and brush annually in the woody savanna to clear land for farming and grazing.
Image Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE 9





The left image shows heat signatures and smoke plumes from wildfires burning in eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia.
Another view of the mentioned Kentucky fires in the left image is given by following satallite image on the right side from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This is a view eastwards showing the smoke (left side on the image) coming from the fires in Kentucky and West Virginia on Monday, 15 November 1999. The smoke can be seen flowing around the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. (Source: SeaWIFS Project)
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