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Historic Fires Devastate the U.S. Pacific Coast

Satellite data is helping scientists size up one of the most intense outbreaks of fire and smoke that Oregon and California have seen in decades.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) data and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, CALIPSO data from NASA/CNES, and emissions data from the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published September 11, 2020
Data acquired September 7, 2020

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
CALIPSO > CALIOP
Suomi NPP > OMPS
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Terra > MODIS