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Day Fire in Ventura County

Day Fire in Ventura County
The Day fire has been burning in Southern California's Ventura County since Labor Day, and has consumed more than 160,000 acres. As of Sept. 29, it was 63 percent contained. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA's Terra satellite flew over the fire at 10 p.m. Pacific Time on Sept. 28,2006.

The Day fire has been burning in Southern California’s Ventura County since Labor Day, and has consumed more than 160,000 acres. As of Sept. 29, 2006, it was 63 percent contained. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite flew over the fire at 10 p.m. Pacific Time on Sept. 28, and imaged the fire with its infrared camera. The hottest areas of active burning appear as red spots on the image. The blue-green background is a daytime image acquired in June that is being used as a background to allow firefighters to localize the hot spots.
With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region, and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet.
The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists with critical information for surface mapping, and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications include monitoring glacial advances and retreats, monitoring potentially active volcanoes, identifying crop stress, determining cloud morphology and physical properties, evaluating wetlands, monitoring thermal pollution and coral reef degradation and measuring surface heat balance.
ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on NASA’s Terra satellite. The instrument was built by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.Image credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team