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Fire Science: Wildfire Monitoring and Prediction
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Fire Imaging: Zaca Fire |
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Zaca Fire, Santa Barbara County, CA
20:40 PDT 7 August 2007
As viewed by the FireMapper™ Thermal-Imaging Radiometer
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Current Image: Thermal mosaic
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 7 August 2007, between 20:40 and 21:55 PDT.
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Image 1: Thermal Mosaic
Plan view of fire. Warmer tones represent recent or active combustion; areas of light gray are cooling ash or warm bare ground and the low temperatures of unburned forest and cool ground are shown in darker gray (see chart above).
Purple is used to show cooling ash but could be associated with bare ground away from fire.
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Wind field and firelines
Forecast wind data for 2100 local time shown over thermal data.
(SBARG forecast from UCSB ICESS
www.icess.ucsb.edu/asr/forecasts.htm)
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Weather conditions at time of data collection :
from NOAA ROMAN system. |
Past Weather Conditions for FGMC1
Observations prior to selected time: August 07, 2007 - 22:00 PDT
Weather Conditions at August 7, 2007 - 21:14 PDT
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21:14 |
24 Hour Max |
24 Hour Min |
| Temperature |
59.0° F |
72.0 at 13:14 |
52.0 at 1:14 |
| Dew Point |
45.1° F |
49.5 at 16:14 |
36.6 at 7:14 |
| Relative Humidity |
60% |
79 at 3:14 |
39 at 9:14 |
| Wind Speed |
1 mph from W |
5 at 15:14 |
0 at 22:14 |
| Wind Gust |
4 mph |
12 at 16:14 |
0 at 22:14 |
| Solar Radiation |
0.0 W/m*m |
958.0 at 13:14 |
0.0 at 22:14 |
| Fuel Temperature |
57.0° F |
88.0 at 14:14 |
48.0 at 1:14 |
| 10 hr Fuel Moisture |
9 gm |
13 at 3:14 |
7 at 15:14 |
| Battery voltage |
12.70 volt |
13.10 at 9:14 |
12.50 at 5:14 |
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FireMapper™ has
been developed through a Research Joint Venture with Space Instruments,
Inc., and support from the National Fire Plan, Forest Service International
Programs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Joint Fire Sciences Program, and the U.S. Agency
for International Development.
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