The fires in New Mexico are visible from space.
A portion of the 200,000 acres that have been burned by the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires can be seen in fresh satellite images. The New York Times listed the New Mexico blazes as the largest active wildfire in the United States as of May 9, and as of May 13, the fire was nearly 30% contained.
Maxar personnel wanted to capture three types of images to view different aspects of the fire.
The smoke from the California wildfires is visible from space.
Satellites can chart the heat signature of a fire, which can help investigators make predictions about the fire's path. Maxar officials wrote that short wave IR can be used to detect active fire lines and hot spots. Hot spots are important during a fire to contain the spread.
Maxar said that the healthy trees and vegetation appear in shades of red and pink while burned areas appear in shades of black and grey.
Maxar's imagery sensor can penetrate through the smoke and detect active fire lines and hot spots, which appear to glow in an orange/yellow color.
Global warming is making wildfires more devastating and powerful. There were record-breaking blazes in the year 2021.
Private companies and governments use Earth observation satellites to monitor the fires. The goal is to get the information to the decision-makers on the ground as quickly as possible.
Machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, can be used to find the most relevant information in a portion of the data.
Long-term consequences for the environment can be produced by fire-related emissions of greenhouse gases and the destruction to the landscape.
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