Landsat images help fight largest fire and emergency managers in the history of Arizona

Landsat images help fight largest fire and emergency managers in the history of Arizona
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Released: 6/17/2011 10: 00: 00 AM

As the largest fire in Arizona history continue to burn, emergency managers and objects corresponding to the satellite data from the various instruments to plan strategies for containment efforts for mitigating immediate and firefighting after fires are.

Satellite Landsat 5 captures two Arizona fires, dubbed Wallow and two podkowy, recording in Arizona East 15 June at 3: 54 p.m. EDT. Both images are FALSE colour to enable ease of identification of various objects to help firefighters and emergency managers. Burn scars in the images that appear, are in the red and the current fire in bright red. Colorful vegetation is green, smoke is colored blue and the bare land is tan color. Image Landsat 5 is false images of 7, 4, 2-team combination.

The fire, now the largest Wallow in the history of Arizona, began may 29, in the area bear Wallow Wilderness, located in Arizona. Podsycane high winds and low humidity, the fire has burned more than 487,016 acres (761 mi inches) to date.

Two large Horseshoe fire event by any other standard, began on 8 may in Horseshoe Canyon in the Coronado National Forest is located in southeastern Arizona. From 16 June the fire had burned 184,198 acres (287 gives me).

Help emergency managers, the satellites Landsat combine wide area with thermal sensor perspective, which detects the boundaries of the actual fire, smoke, and haze. Landsat contains critical information, vegetation and fuels for an interdepartmental Wildland fire decision support System that is used to model the behavior of fire and tactical decisions.

Landsat is a joint effort of NASA and USGS. USGS Landsat operations and NASA develops and launches the new satellites, meeting the requirements of USGS. In addition to the Landsat imagery events natural risks provides valuable data for land use research and advance the Department of the Interior of an important role in land remote sensing within the national space policy. Landsat images are unique in that they provide a complete global coverage, are available free of charge and includes nearly 40 years of continuous Earth observation. No other imaging satellite has the combination of attributes.

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