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Yellowstone NP - October 11, 2006 (night IR)

Old Faithful

Norris Geyser Basin

Mud Volcano

Mammoth Geyser Basin

 
 

Yellowstone NP - October 12, 2006 (night IR)

Old Faithful

Norris Geyser Basin

Mud Volcano

Mammoth Geyser Basin

 
 

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Fire Science

Thermal mapping

 

Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone NP
on the afternoon of October 12, 2006



As viewed by the FireMapper™ system
in reflected red, near-InfraRed and thermal-InfraRed light


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Images were collected from the PSW Airborne Sciences Aircraft flying over the area of the Norris Geyser Basin at 14:19 MDT.

   

Image 1:
A portion of the image mosaic from Norris Geyser Basin.

This RGB image shows reflected red light at 650 nm in red, reflected NIR at 850 nm in green, and thermal IR at 8 - 12 um in blue.


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Image 1a:
Image mosaic from Norris Geyser Basin in a Google Earth overlay.


View the Geyser area in Google Earth.
Locations approximate, low resolution version (3 MB file).


View the Geyser area in Google Earth.
Locations approximate, FULL resolution version (100 MB file).


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Image 2:
A portion of the thermal image mosaic from Norris Geyser Basin.

This false-color image shows thermal IR at 8 - 12 um in shades of purple and red.


Download this image as a .5 meter-resolution TIFF.


Click on the image above to view a larger Zoomify (JPEG) image with .5 meter resolution
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Image 2a:
Thermal image mosaic from Norris Geyser Basin in a Google Earth overlay.


View the Geyser area in Google Earth.
Locations approximate, FULL resolution version (40 MB file).


Click on the image above to view the reduced-resolution image
(opens a new browser window)


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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