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Fire Science: Wildfire Monitoring and Prediction
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Fire Imaging: Zaca Fire |
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Zaca Fire, Santa Barbara County, CA
14:48 PDT 29 August 2007
As viewed by the FireMapper Thermal-Imaging Radiometer
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NOTE: Only the southern half of the fire area was covered today.
Current Image: Thermal mosaic
Ground surface temperatures as viewed from above at 11.9 micrometers wavelength on 29 August 2007, between 14:48 and 15:51 PDT.
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Image 1: Thermal Mosaic
Plan view of fire. Warmer tones represent recent or active combustion; areas of light gray are cooling ash or warm bare ground and the low temperatures of unburned forest and cool ground are shown in darker gray (see chart above).
Purple is used to show cooling ash but could be associated with bare ground away from fire.
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Hotspots
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Weather conditions at time of data collection :
from NOAA ROMAN system. |
Past Weather Conditions for LPOC1
Observations prior to selected time: August 29, 2007 - 16:00 PDT
Weather Conditions at August 29, 2007 - 15:14 PDT
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15:14 |
24 Hour Max |
24 Hour Min |
Temperature |
108.0° F |
109.0 at 14:14 |
68.0 at 0:14 |
Dew Point |
53.7° F |
54.3 at 16:14 |
48.1 at 5:14 |
Relative Humidity |
17% |
50 at 0:14 |
16 at 14:14 |
Wind Speed |
4 mph from ESE |
5 at 17:14 |
0 at 20:14 |
Wind Gust |
9 mph |
14 at 18:14 |
0 at 22:14 |
Solar Radiation |
243.0 W/m*m |
816.0 at 13:14 |
0.0 at 20:14 |
Fuel Temperature |
122.0° F |
124.0 at 14:14 |
66.0 at 1:14 |
10 hr Fuel Moisture |
5 gm |
8 at 7:14 |
5 at 15:14 |
Battery voltage |
12.80 volt |
13.00 at 10:14 |
12.50 at 0:14 |
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