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CalFire to use NASA technology for remote sensing of wildfires
NASA and CalFire have signed an agreement that allows CalFire to use NASA’s remote sensing technology to “cooperatively explore the use and future transfer of advanced fire sensing technology”. Here is...
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Infrared video of wildfire in North Carolina
Michael Crouse saw our “one liner” from April 17 about a photo gallery of multiple master streams and a tower-ladder being used on a brush fire in North Carolina and sent us a link to the video below...
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South Dakota: White Draw and Parker Peak fires
The map above shows the fire perimeters (the red line) that were detected by a fixed-wing infrared mapping flight at 10:22 p.m. MT, July 2, 2012. The red squares represent heat detected by a satellite...
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Infrared mapping crews were busy last night
The technicians and pilots staffing the two U.S. Forest Service infrared (IR) aircraft mapping wildland fires were busy Tuesday night as usual. Here is a list of the fires they worked last night: Pine...
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New Landsat satellite provides images of Galena fire
Image from the new Landsat satellite, showing Galena Fire. NASA photo. Click to enlarge. The newest Landsat satellite has successfully achieved orbit and is being checked out by NASA for a few months...
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Forest Service receives new airborne sensor from NASA
One of the U.S. Forest Service’s Infrared aircraft, their Cessna Citation Bravo, N144Z The U.S. Forest Service has been using dedicated fixed wing aircraft with infrared sensors to detect and map...
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Infrared mapping, the New York Times on Lassen’s Reading Fire, and more...
Reading Fire. Photo by Lassen National Park. Several online articles came to our attention today that you may be interested in. New York Times The Times has an excellent article about last year’s...
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Researchers design satellite to detect wildfires — a step toward the Holy...
Researchers at Berkeley have designed a concept for a satellite that would be dedicated to detecting new wildfires. Decades ago we relied on a network of lookout towers staffed by employees and later...
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A thermal imager for your smart phone
Structural fire departments in recent years have discovered the value of thermal imaging cameras to detect dangerous heat sources that could ignite fires, find lingering heat hidden behind walls, and...
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Gazette articles about firefighting technology in Colorado
Ryan Maye Handy, who has written for Wildfire Today, has crafted three articles for the Colorado Springs Gazette about advances in wildfire management technology that the state of Colorado is adopting....
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A thermal infrared camera attachment for smart phone
Seek Thermal Camera and a Motorola X smart phone. Photo by Bill Gabbert. A thermal infrared (IR) camera that attaches to a smart phone is now available that could be useful for firefighters. The...
View ArticleFirefighters making more progress on the Rocky Fire
(UPDATE at 7:21 a.m. PT, August 8, 2015) The Rocky Fire east of Clearlake, California, was quiet again on Friday. The satellite did not detect any large heat sources on the blaze that CAL FIRE is...
View ArticleNASA to launch 200 satellites that will detect wildfires
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to launch a network of 200 small satellites that will detect wildfires within 15 minutes after a blaze grows to be at least 35 to 50 feet across....
View ArticleNew South Wales fire mapping
The image above was distributed by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, showing a map of the Gold Mine Road Fire 17 km southwest of Towamba in the Yambulla State Forest. The map is part of the...
View ArticleInfrared video of ember shower at Londonderry Fire in NSW
.@NSWRFS Camera captures fire intensity and ember showers causing spot fires as well as impact on homes at yesterday's Londonderry fire pic.twitter.com/mbAzo5q7zK — Shane Fitzsimmons (@RFSCommissioner)...
View ArticleFSU researchers: Most fires in Florida go undetected
By: Zachary Boehm A new study by Florida State University researchers indicates that common satellite imaging technologies have vastly underestimated the number of fires in Florida. Their report,...
View ArticleNew satellites can aid in management of wildfires
Imagery from GOES 16 showed dramatic smoke plumes from the Camp Fire The post New satellites can aid in management of wildfires appeared first on Wildfire Today.
View ArticleResearchers demonstrate that it is possible to accurately measure wildfire...
Now that federal land management agencies are being forced by an act of Congress to begin providing to fire managers the real time location of fires and firefighting resources, it opens a range of...
View ArticleFire whirl filmed with infrared camera
Jim O’Daniel of RPX Technologies sent us the link to the video below which shows a small fire whirl filmed by one of their HyperSight infrared thermal cameras. The devices, which can see through smoke,...
View ArticleA better look at the pyrocumulus over the Chuckegg Creek Fire in Alberta
Compare two satellite images The post A better look at the pyrocumulus over the Chuckegg Creek Fire in Alberta appeared first on Wildfire Today.
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