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Fire Science |
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Thermal mapping |
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Old Faithful in Yellowstone NP
on the night of October 12, 2006
As viewed by the FireMapper system
in Thermal-Infrared light
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Images were collected from the PSW Airborne Sciences Aircraft flying over the area near Old Faithful geyser at 18:42 MDT.
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Image 1:
Image mosaic from Old Faithful.
The mean surface temperature was just above freezing, 30 C is the break between the purple and the dark red and 75 C is the top of the red scale.
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Image 2:
Image mosaic from Old Faithful in a Google Earth overlay.
View the Geyser area in Google Earth.
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FireMapper has
been developed through a Research Joint Venture with Space Instruments,
Inc., and support from the National Fire Plan, Forest Service International
Programs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Joint Fire Sciences Program, and the U.S. Agency
for International Development.
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