The skies about SW Oregon were clear enough Sunday for NASA’s MODIS land imagery system to get a good look at the Oak Flat fire burning near Grants Pass.
Satellite images help fire managers understand the behavior of fires, establish very accurate acreage counts, alert air quality agencies about potential smoke drift, and provides additional valuable data.
For the full scale Sunday afternoon MODIS sweep photograph of the northwestern US and Canada, go to:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA1.2010234.terra.1km
Kevin Weeks
Oregon Department of Forestry