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Lockheed Fire
On August 12, 2009, the Lock
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8/18/09
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On August 12, 2009, the Lockheed Fire broke out in the mountains southwest of San Jose, California, and burned through an estimated 2,600 acres of brush and timber by the morning of August 14. The fire was burning about 4 miles northwest of the town of Boulder Creek, and at least 2,000 people had been forced to evacuate their homes. This photo-like image of the fire was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on August 13. The red outlines mark the location where the sensor detected active fire. A narrow but dense plume of smoke slices across the mouth of Monterey Bay, stretching past the city of Santa Cruz toward Monterey. The landscape of this part of California is one of redwoods and fir trees, and it appears lushly green in this image. But mixed with these forests are tracts of chaparral (landscapes dominated by fire-adapted, drought-tolerant shrubs and grasses) and large stands of highly flammable knobcone pine. Hot, fast-moving fires are a natural part of this landscape, and people's desire to suppress forest fires around their homes in recent decades has allowed some areas to become unnaturally overgrown and primed for wildfire. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey. |
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8/18/09 |
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Fires in California
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Fires in California |
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A series of 23 fires known as the Santa Clara Complex burn in the Diablo Mountain range northeast of San Jose, California. Seen as red squares in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image captured by NASA's Aqua satellite on August 27, 2003, the fires were started when a lightning storm rolled through the region on Monday, August 25. On August 29, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported that 18,457 acres had burned, threatening 40 homes. The fire was 50 percent contained. To the west of the fires, the San Francisco Bay is surrounded by cities seen as grey patches. San Jose is the triangular region south of the bay. San Francisco is west of the bay and Oakland is on the east. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Fires in California
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Fires in California |
| Description |
A series of 23 fires known as the Santa Clara Complex burn in the Diablo Mountain range northeast of San Jose, California. Seen as red squares in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image captured by NASA's Aqua satellite on August 27, 2003, the fires were started when a lightning storm rolled through the region on Monday, August 25. On August 29, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported that 18,457 acres had burned, threatening 40 homes. The fire was 50 percent contained. To the west of the fires, the San Francisco Bay is surrounded by cities seen as grey patches. San Jose is the triangular region south of the bay. San Francisco is west of the bay and Oakland is on the east. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Fires in California
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Fires in California |
| Description |
Two wildfires burning in the Mojave Desert at the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California continued to spread and threatened to merge into a single large blaze in mid-July 2006. At just over 8,000 acres as of July 14, the Millard Complex Fire is the smaller of the two, and it is located farther west. To the east is the larger Sawtooth Complex Fire, which was about 48,000 acres. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured this image of the area on July 13, 2006, at 2:10 p.m. local time. Locations where MODIS detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. The Sawtooth Fire is burning mostly in chaparral, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral ] an ecosystem dominated by dense thickets of low-growing, drought-adapted shrub. Part of the fire has invaded the San Bernardino National Forest. The Millard Fire is burning in chaparral and conifer forest. Both fires are threatening homes in the region. As of July 14, the National Interagency Fire Center [ http://www.nifc.gov/information.html ] estimated the Sawtooth Fire was 20 percent contained, the Millard Fire was about 5 percent contained. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per image pixel. That image also shows a wider area, providing a view of the Canyon Fire, which is burning in the Diablo Mountains to the east of San Jose. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Fresno ] of this area in a variety of resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Fires in California
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Fires in California |
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Several fires were burning in California on July 12, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed overhead and captured this image. The places where MODIS detected active fire are marked in red. In the south, the Sawtooth Fire and the Millard Fire are burning close together at the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains at the margin of the Mojave Desert. To the north, the Canyon Fire is burning to the east of San Jose in the Diablo Range Mountains. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Fresno/ ] at a variety of resolutions.Current Wildland Fire Information [ http://www.nifc.gov/information.html ] is available from the National Interagency Fire Center. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Summit Fire, California: Nat
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Road closures and evacuation
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Fresno_AMO_2008143
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image |
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2008-05-22 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Fresno_AMO_2008143 |
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Fires in California: Image o
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Two wildfires burning in the
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Fresno.AMO2006194
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2006-07-01 |
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Fresno.AMO2006194 |
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Fires in California: Natural
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Several fires were burning i
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Fresno.AMO2006193
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2006-07-12 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Fresno.AMO2006193 |
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Fires in California: Natural
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A series of 23 fires known a
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California.A2003239
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2003-08-27 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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California.A2003239 |
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Fires in California: Natural
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A series of 23 fires known a
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California.A2003239
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2003-08-27 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
California.A2003239 |
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