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Cooney Ridge Fire

3 September

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 Piper Navajo remote sensing aircraft

Fire Science

Wildfire Monitoring and Prediction
Fire Imaging
Northeast line
Cooney Ridge Fire, Missoula, Ravalli, and Granite Counties, MT
3 September 2003


As viewed by the FireMapper™ Thermal-Imaging Radiometer

Images were collected from the PSW Airborne Sciences Aircraft and disseminated in part by satellite communications in near-real time. FireMapper measures the radiance of emitted thermal-infrared light, which readily penetrates smoke. False-color images shown here depict the apparent surface temperature (in Celsius) as estimated from radiance and a simple black-body model. Warmer tones represent recent or active combustion; areas of gray are cooling ash or warm bare ground (see chart below). Low temperatures of unburned forest and cool ground are shown in green. Images have been geographically referenced.

   

Location Map

Area of Cooney Ridge fire


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Fire Experiment Area Image

Area of Joint Fire Science Program experiment.

(This RGB image depicts reflected red light at 650 nm in blue, reflected near-IR light at 850 nm in green, and emitted thermal-IR light at 10.5 um in red.)

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Fire Imagery


The following color-coded images depict apparent ground surface temperatures in Celsius. The background image is from the NAPP aerial photography dataset.

They were collected as part of coordinated ground-based and
airborne observations of fire behavior.

   

Image 1:
Thermal image over visible and near-IR bands from an earlier transect.


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Image 1a:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 15:46 MDT.

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Image 1b:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 1c:
Topographic view from the northeast. Plots are shown as black squares.


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Image 2:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 15:50 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 2a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 2b:
Topographic view from the northeast. Plots are shown as black squares.


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Image 3:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 15:54 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 3a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 3b:
Topographic view from the northeast. Plots are shown as black squares.


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Image 4:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 15:56 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 4a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 5:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:00 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Link to geoTIFF .zip file


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Image5a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 5b:
Topographic view from the northeast. Plots are shown as black squares.


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Image 6:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:05 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Link to geoTIFF .zip file


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Image6a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 6b:
Topographic view from the northeast. Plots are shown as black squares.


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Image 7:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:15 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 7a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 7b:
Topographic view from the northeast. Plots are shown as black squares.


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Image 8:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:20 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 8a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 9:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:26 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 9a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 10:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:32 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 10a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 11:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:37 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 11a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 12:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:43 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 12a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 13:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:49 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Image 13a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 14:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 16:55 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Link to geoTIFF .zip file


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Image 14a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 15:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 17:00 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

Link to Imagine .img format file

Link to geoTIFF .zip file


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Image 15a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Image 16:
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 3 September 2003, at 17:12 MDT.

15 foot pixel size

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Link to geoTIFF .zip file


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Image 16a:
Approximate plot locations shown as black squares.


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Links


Archives of past fires: 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001


Forest mapping: 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001


FireMapper™ Specifications: Instrument

FireMapper™ References: Publications

FireMapper™ Tools- image analysis software: ftp downloads page

For Further Information: contact Dr. Philip J. Riggan

 

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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