There was "widespread improvement" in air quality overnight Thursday into Friday as the thickest wildfire smoke drifted out to the Atlantic, said NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
The red marks indicate where the wildfires are currently burning from Washington down to California, with the resulting smoke — the browner section in the middle of the image — drifting westward toward the Pacific Ocean. NASA / NASA The image below, however, is also significant. Generated by...
The Glass Fire, currently the least controlled of California’s fires, has devastated several vineyards and smothered the Bay Area with smoke. Wildfire smoke contains a potent mixture of particles and gases that can pose a serious health hazard. According to one recent analysis from researchers ...
Wildfire smoke plume segmentation using geostationary satellite imageryJeff WenMarshall Burke
Satellite images also showed fires burning across Sicily in Italy as temperatures soared above 100 degrees. A Maxar Technologies image showed thick smoke billowing above the Italian city of Palermo in Sicily. Hawaii experiences deadliest wildfire in modern US history A satellite image showing wildfires...
People dove into the water at Lahaina Harbor while trying to escape the smoke and encroaching flames on Tuesday. The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed later that crews rescued 17 people from the harbor, all of whom were reported to be stable. Side-by-side images of Lahaina, taken before the bla...
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smoke-cloud image segmentation model for GOES-R True Color images.Achieves 85% accuracy with a self-supervised pre-trained and fine-tuned U-Net.Implements the model in an application for real-time wildfire data integration.Demonstrates the validity of the model through a 2020 CZU wildfire case ...
track the transport of smoke from fires, provide information for fire management, and map the extent of changes to ecosystems, based on the extent and severity of burn scars. NASA has a fleet of Earth-observing instruments, many of which contribute to our understanding of fire in the Earth ...
The frequency and intensity of wildfires are expected to increase; improved tools for estimating exposure to fire smoke are vital. New-generation satellite-based sensors produce high-resolution spectral images, providing real-time information of surface features during wildfire episodes. Because of the ...