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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Mapping California's Wildfires


NASA's populace Observatory has published ii satellite images of the California wildfires captured past times its Landsat 8 satellite. Camp Fire Rages inwards California includes images of the Camp Fire (shown above) captured on Nov 8th. The article too includes a to a greater extent than zoomed out icon which shows the fume from both the Camp Fire together with the Hill & Woolsey fires spreading out into the Pacific.


Yesterday the New York Times mapped out how the Camp Fire together with the Woolsey terminal accept been spreading. The NYT's Tracking Where the Fires Are Spreading includes ii mapped visualizations of each fire.


The Times has overlain the terminal footprint of each terminal on travel on of a Google Map. These terminal footprints are colored to exhibit the novel areas that the fires reached yesterday (colored red) together with the areas previously burned. For both the Camp terminal together with the Woolsey terminal the Times has too created a footprint comparing visualization. These comparisons house 3 footprints of each terminal inwards a sequence showing how the fires accept grown over the previous 3 days.

If you lot desire the latest tidings nigh California's wildfires hence you lot mightiness hold out interested inwards Esri's Smoke from Wildfires map which shows the National Weather Service fume forecast for the adjacent 48 hours. Esri has too released a particular California Wildfires Map which is providing close real-time information nigh the traffic weather condition on the state's major roads. This map too contains the terminal perimeters of active fires together with terminal reports from the National Interagency Fire Center.

The San Francisco Chronicle's California Fire Tracker map provides information on all the wildfires currently burning across California. The map shows terminal perimeters together with the latest air pollution particulate reading from the smoke. The map too has links to the newspaper's latest tidings on all the fires together with to their terminal disaster guide.