One of the fires I'm mapping is just south of Monterrey called Indians. It's on the Los Padres NF and has already been burning for a few weeks. It's currently the biggest fire burning in California. I've mapped it twice - once at 25,000 acres, again at 50,000 acres, and it's now over 60,000 acres. It is 85% contained, though, so there's hope!
Due to the fire situation, many assets are becoming available to us free of charge. For example, SPOT acquired a 10m Color-Infrared image on Saturday that is available for no charge. That isn't typical: I usually pay upwards of $9,000 for one of these things. This example is showing the Indians Fire perimeter from June 18 draped over the SPOT image that was acquired on Saturday. The black is burn scar.
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How is the fire missing those, what look to be, western facing slopes, in the upper left portion of the scar?
If I'm understanding you correctly, the missing portions in the upper left are areas that haven't burned yet. It looks to me that they started a large burn out operation along the road on the left of the burn scar. That way any advancing fire will burn up to that line of already-blackened vegetation and stop.
I find that odd also. Within the yellow, demarcated area, there are several ridges running (presumably) from the NE to the SW. The northwestern slopes are not burned but the southeastern slopes are. That seems to be to be an odd way to do a back burn.
By the way, that is a huge fire. Go home and get some sleep.
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