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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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In southeastern Australia, bushfires are raging out of control. At the border of southeast New South Wales and northeast Victoria in the Great Dividing Range Mountains, dozens of out-of-control fires have destroyed at least 400 homes and killed four people according to local news reports from Tuesday, January 21. The fires blazed through portions of Australia?s capital city of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) along corridors of natural bush that are mixed with the urban landscape. Among the devastating losses, more than two dozen farms have been destroyed and hundreds of livestock have perished. Many farmers are being forced to rapidly sell remaining livestock as the fires have destroyed all available pasture. This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Terra satellite on January 19, 2003, shows the numerous bushfires marked with red dots, as well as the thick, choking smoke. The ACT is almost completely shrouded in smoke from the densest concentrations of fires (left of center). Fires are also burning northwest of Sydney (top center). Conditions are expected to worsen as the week progresses, with high temperatures and winds up to 65 knots (71 miles per hour) whipping the blazes further out of control. More than 900 firefighters are battling the fires, and more continue to pour in from surrounding territories to lend a hand. The high-resolution image available here is 500 meters per pixel. Visit the MODIS Rapid Response Team, for a copy of this scene at MODIS? full resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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Ribbons of flame trace across the parched landscape of southeast Australia. Prolonged, severe drought (exacerbated by an El Ni¤o), high winds, and high temperatures have sparked scores of fires across New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. Lives, homes, farmland, and livestock have been lost to the blazes. This scene, situated roughly 30 km southwest of Canberra, shows smoke billowing from one of the numerous fires in the region. This unusual image was made from data collected on January 26, 2003, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on the Terra satellite. The image is a combination of radiation in the visible and shortwave infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, using ASTER bands 3, 2, and 1. Fires burning in vegetation tend to emit radiation very strongly in the short wave infrared wavelengths of radiation, and this strong signal can be used to locate areas of open flame. In this image, the strong shortwave infrared signal of the flames has been colored bright yellow. Vegetation is red, and naturally bare soil is tan. The full scene is roughly 40 km by 60 km in area. Image courtesy NASA's Earth Observatory. |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
In southeastern Australia, b
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Australia_TMO2003019
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2003-01-19 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Australia_TMO2003019 |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Ribbons of flame trace acros
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ASTaus_fire
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2003-01-26 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ASTaus_fire |
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Spring Rains Quench Australi
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While winter approaches the
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aust_ndvianom_0302
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2003 |
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NASA -- Image by Reto Stockli, NASA Earth Observatory, based on data provided by the modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Science Team at NASA GSFC |
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aust_ndvianom_0302 |
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