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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Australian Bushfire Maps



Many parts of Australia, inwards exceptional inwards New South Wales, are experiencing tape levels of bushfires. One burn downward on its ain inwards Coffs Harbour, NSW has a perimeter of thou kilometres. With no rainfall forecast together with the hope of warm dry out weather for the coming calendar week the extreme threat of burn downward inwards the nation is expected to continue.

MyFireWatch is an interactive map providing information on the locations of the latest bushfires inwards Australia. The map uses information from remote sensing satellites together with is updated every 2-4 hours, depending on the lay of satellites. If you lot pick out a burn downward marking on the map you lot tin read details on the fourth dimension together with appointment when the burn downward was final detected together with its longitude together with latitude.



The NSW Rural Fire Service also provides an interactive map of fires inwards New South Wales. The NSW Rural Fire Service map shows the locations of fires together with the latest known burn downward extents. The map uses markers which are colored to demonstrate the electrical current alarm grade for the mapped fire. Red markers demonstrate the place of fires amongst an emergency warning alarm level. Major burn downward updates are also listed nether the map.

The animated GIF at the come about of the page uses images from the Himawari-8 satellite. You tin explore satellite imagery of Commonwealth of Australia yourself on the Himawari-8 Real-time Web viewer. The times on the GIF are I presume shown inwards my local time. Sydney is eleven hours ahead hence these images are from yesterday afternoon inwards New South Wales.

If you lot desire to exercise your ain animated GIFs from satellite imagery together with hence approximately other skillful source of imagery is the RAMMB/CIRA Slider website. This tool allows you lot to exercise animated GIFs from satellite imagery from GOES-16 together with Himawari-8. The slider uses the latest available imagery from both satellites to permit you lot to exercise modest animated movies of the Earth.