Browse Archive
-
Smoke Gets in Your Skies
07.27.11 - An image showing smoke over the Chesapeake Bay drifting north from wildfires in N.C. and Ga. as viewed by the HSRL aboard NASA Langley’s UC-12 aircraft.
-
Aura Detects Pollution in the Great Lakes Region
07.21.11 - Fires throughout Ontario are generating pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite in the Great Lakes region.
-
Aura Measures Pollution 'Butterfly'
07.15.11 - Central African fires are generating a high amount of pollution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.
-
Aura Probes Fire's Fading Pollution Plume in Northern Canada
07.15.11 - Recent pollution levels from the fires in Canada's Northwest Territories do not appear to be as high as they were at the end of June as the fires have come under more control since then.
-
Aura Satellite Measures Pollution From Fires
07.01.11 - NASA's Aura Satellite has provided a view of nitrogen dioxide levels coming from the fires in New Mexico and Arizona.
-
Northeastern Florida Beachgoers Affected by Smoke From the Honey Prairie Fires
06.23.11 - The Honey Prairie Complex fires burning in southeastern Georgia continue to blanket southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida with smoke, triggering Dense Smoke Advisories throughout the region.
-
NASA Spacecraft Monitors Continuing Burn of Arizona's Largest-Ever Wildfire
06.23.11 - The Wallow fire is the largest fire ever to occur in Arizona.
-
Landsat Helps Fight Largest Fire in Arizona History
06.16.11 - Arizona's largest fire in history continues to burn and Landsat data is being used to plan firefighting containment strategies and mitigation efforts.
-
OMI views NO2 from Fires, Pollution, and Energy Production in U.S. Southwest →
Arizona's Wallow Fire produces plume of nitrogen oxides; power plants and cities are also sources.
-
Landsat Satellite Sees Arizona Wildfire Sweep Through Apache National Forest
06.09.11 - The second largest fire in Arizona history, the Wallow Fire is graphically depicted by this Landsat image, taken June 7, which shows burning in the mountains of eastern Arizona near the border with New Mexico.
-
NASA Satellites Acknowledge Busy 2011 Fire Season in Mexico
06.01.11 - May usually marks the end of the fire season in Mexico.
-
Five-Acre Fire Near NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, California
05.17.11 - On May 16, 2011 a brush fire behind NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., burned and firefighters were able to douse it the same day.
-
NASA Partners With Cal Fire for Wildfire Imaging
12.14.10 - NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., has signed a Space Act Agreement with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) to use NASA technology and capabilities to help support the management and mitigation of wildfire disasters.
-
NASA Models Earth's Fiery Past and Future
10.27.10 - Over long time scales, research has shown that both the climate and humans have a profound effect on wildfire activity around the globe.
-
Wildfires: A Symptom of Climate Change
09.24.10 - Thousands of wildfires are underway at any given time across the globe, and this "biomass" burning is part of the equation for global warming.
-
Colorado's "Reservoir Road Fire" from Space
09.13.10 - On Sept. 12 the MODIS instrument on Aqua captured a visible image of the Reservoir Road Fire that is currently raging in the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests.
-
Satellites Show Wildfire-Beetle Attacks Connection
09.08.10 - A new video shows how NASA maps pine beetle outbreaks, and what impact the beetle damage might have on forest fires.
-
NASA Satellite Data Aids United Nations' Ability to Detect Global Fire Hotspots
09.07.10 - In the midst of a difficult fire season in many parts of the world, the United Nations' (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online fire detection system that will help firefighters and natural hazards managers improve response time and resource management.
-
Fire on Oil Platform in Gulf of Mexico
09.02.10 - Though obscured by clouds, NASA's Terra satellite was able to see smoke coming from an oil platform that caught fire Sept. 2, 2010.
-
NASA's Terra Satellite Sees Intense Fires and Smoke Over Western Russia
08.13.10 - The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite detected two clusters of intense fires when it acquired a photo-like image.