Fires in Southern California

  • Credit

    Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the U.S. /Japan ASTER Science Team.

Multiple massive wildifres burned in southern California during the last week of October 2003. This series of images shows the fires and the damage they caused as seen from a variety of satellites.

This false-color image shows the devastating burn scars left behind by wildfires in southern California in late October 2003. In the image, unburned vegetation appears red, while burned areas appear charcoal-brown. The image, captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), on November 2, 2003, shows the Santa Monica Hills in the Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley regions of California northwest of the city of Los Angeles. Urban areas appear light gray, and some irrigated fields in the left part of the iamge appear brilliant red.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/ASTER

  • Start Date

    2003-11-02

  • Event Start Date

    2003-10-23

  • NH Image ID

    11838

  • NH Event ID

    10194

  • NH Posting Date

    2003-11-13