California Wild Fires

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and ORBIMAGE, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with ORBIMAGE (http://www.orbimage.com).

SeaWiFS: California Wild Fires

NASA's Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View sensor (SeaWiFS) captured this striking image of large dust and smoke plumes blowing from Baja, California, February 10, 2002.

Here and there amongst the yellowish brown dust plumes, whiter smoke plumes are also visible, including a smaller one that appears to be coming from the Fallbrook, California area. Eleven people were injured and over thirty homes were destroyed in the town.SeaWiFS captured this image of numerous large dust plumes blowing oceanward from Baja California, Mexico.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Animation ID

    2386

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0001

  • Start Timecode

    01:05:29:00

  • End Timecode

    01:05:57:20

  • Animator

    Stuart A. Snodgrass

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/02/12

  • Scientist

    Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Baja, California, Smoke, Fire

  • DLESE Subject

    Human geography, Environmental science, Atmospheric science, Forestry

  • Data Date

    2002/02/10

  • Animation Type

    Regular