19. December 2017

FireBIRD monitors forest fires in California

Firefighters battle a blaze in Southern California.

Credit:
Richard Smith/Wikimedia Commons

FireBIRD fire monitoring: Infrared images of wildfires at the Californian Pacific coast.

Credit:
DLR (CC-BY 3.0).

In December 2017, wild fires have been burning in parts of California. On December 12, 2017, DLR’s TET-1 satellite captured major hot spots in the region. TET-1 is one of the two satellites of the FireBIRD mission. With its spatial resolution of 320 m the system has a much higher spatial resolution than the standard thermal sensors from MODIS or Sentinel 3 SLTSR (1 km).

Products

USA - California - P01 - Fires as of December 10, 2017 - Situation Map

Creation Date 18. December 2018

USA - California - P02 - Fires as of December 12, 2017 - Situation Map

Creation Date 13. December 2018

Further links

FireBIRD portal