Air quality pm 2 5 information from official monitors is shown as circles air quality pm 2 5 information from temporary monitors placed by agencies during smoke events is show as triangles air quality pm 2 5 information from low cost sensors is shown as squares large fire incidents as fire icons satellite fire detections as small glowing points and smoke plume.
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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.
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There are two major types of current fire information.
Nasa satellite images map spread of 2020 wildfires from space nasa satellite images have revealed more than 650 wildfires have broken out across california with he space agency.
This map contains four different types of data.
Fire perimeter and hot spot data.
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.
Fire origins mark the fire fighter s best guess of where the fire started.
Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.
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.
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This combination of satellite images shows the lnu lightning complex wildfire burning to the west of healdsburg in sonoma county california on aug.
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