SoCal Update

Our air quality here in SLC isn't very good this week. Everyone's first reaction is to blame the wildfires in SoCal. However, I've checked the MODIS imagery and noticed that all the smoke is still blowing offshore and not heading inland.

This is today's image collect (zoomed out pretty far). Still lots of smoke. I'm a little concerned that the fires are calming down and we didn't schedule any collects until Sunday.One nice option may be the photography collected by a NASA UAV that's been on a 10-hour mission over most the fires. Our office is involved in this effort and I hope to use some of their data. A few fires are mostly done burning: Ranch, Buckweed, and Grass Valley. The UAV (Ikhana) flew over all of them today. This graphic below is an example of the images draped in Google Earth.