It's Sunday morning and I'm at work. I just finished mapping the Day Fire in Southern California. It burned about 162,000 acres on the Los Padres NF. We've been trying to get some clear imagery of that fire but have been foiled by clouds and smoke. I scheduled a SPOT 5 attempt because it fit the tight time constraints better. The first attempt was Friday, Oct. 6 but it was completely cloudy. The next attempt was yesterday, Oct. 7. It was perfect. I was at the BYU football game when the fire incident called asking for an update. I told them I'd probably get the imagery by lunch today and out to them by 2. The imagery came in earlier than anticipated (thanks to SPOT Image Corp.) and I was able to get it out the field before noon. They were chomping at the bit due to some pretty tight time constraints.
Here are a few screen grabs showing what the imagery looked like. It's 10m spatial resolution (3x as fine as my typical Landsat image sources). The burn scar is the red/purple color; vegetation is green, water is black. Notice I-5 on the eastern edge of the wildfire. They had to close the freeway a few times while the fire threatened that side. One image is of the full extent; the other is zoomed in to full resolution. You can make out trees in this image. The southern portion of the fire was mostly chaparral while the northern portion got into more timber.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
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