Satellite Images Santa Barbara Fire

This fire is a complex of over 20 fires and is located near santa clara where it is being managed by the santa clara fire unit.

Satellite images santa barbara fire. In the image above red arrows point to santa rose north and san francisco south two areas with unhealthy air due to the smoke. The cave fire started in the santa ynez mountains a few miles northwest of santa barbara late monday afternoon and had scorched more than 4 300 acres by tuesday night fire officials said. A firefighter crosses highway 154 while battling the cave fire in los padres national forest calif above santa barbara on tuesday nov. A series of wildfires across california have consumed thousands of acres of land and triggered evacuations.

Fire perimeter and hot spot data. There are two major types of current fire information. Video posted to instagram by the santa barbara county fire department shows firefighters using containment techniques to stop the spread of the main fire. Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.

For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. Satellite images released by. 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. Noaa nasa s suomi npp was able to image this nighttime image of the.

This new landsat 8 imagery acquired over the area of montecito in santa barbara county california shows the large area of the country that was struck by the fires in the first week of december. 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. Across california the three biggest fires along with about 20 other major wildfires and hundreeds of smaller ones have contributed to a statewide curtain of smoke.